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On celibacy, fantasy, Jane the Virgin, feminism, and not dating

March 15, 2018/Charlotte

Obsessively binge watching Jane the Virgin coincided with – and perhaps influenced – my decision to stop dating and stop having sex. Not dating when you are romantically-lonely is uncomfortable and dissonant. It means...

Sometimes labels help; what ADHD means to me

Life

March 13, 2018/Charlotte

Today is the 4-week-aversary of getting diagnosed with ADHD, and I’m in a mood to celebrate. Unfortunately my son is home sick from school, so I’m stuck under him on the couch while he...

New Degree, New Hair, Who Dis?

Humour, Life, Parenting

March 1, 2018/Charlotte

When you’re a student and a solo mother, your budget for personal grooming is comparable to driving to the other side of town for a holiday instead of going to Thailand. Which is why...

Healing came from little white pills

Life

November 13, 2017/Charlotte

Four months ago I started healing. This is what healing was like to start with: trembling knees, lungs that wouldn’t inflate properly, memories I didn’t want to remember, crying myself to sleep, crying in...

How to answer questions when you’re not “good”

Life

October 1, 2017/Charlotte

Since I had a breakdown a few months ago, conversations have become harder. It’s like there’s an invisible time limit to sympathy that no one has expressed to me, but I’m conscious of not...

Home is a place that is still

Life, Parenting

July 17, 2017/Charlotte

The thing about the urge to run, the crazy cannot-possibly-stay-where-I-am urge to run, is that it immobilises me. Fleeing something hard in my life is no longer an option and so I stay. I...