Step into power, step into pyjamas
Comics, Dating, LifeI don’t know exactly when or how I stopped being insecure about how I look. It’s not that I learned to love my body and see all its flaws as beautiful. They’re not beautiful,...
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On celibacy, fantasy, Jane the Virgin, feminism, and not dating
Dating, LifeObsessively 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...
How Mr. Men and Little Miss Teach Kids To Hate Themselves
Humour, Life, ParentingThere are a lot of books that I enjoyed as a child that dismay me as an adult. But I try not to be a loud too often so I usually just burn them...
Yes I love you, no I don’t want to be touched right now
Life, ParentingBeing a feminist mother of a (white) son sometimes involves a different approach to that of parenting daughters that goes beyond the strange things that happen in their nappies (how naive I was before...
Self love? Take selfies
LifeApparently taking selfies makes me narcissistic and vain. The internet is fond of telling us what we are doing wrong and how we should be otherwise to what we are. But every selfie that I...