You, me and assumptions
My first office job was at a university, and it’s an environment I’ve felt at home in ever since. There were many things I learnt in that job, but one
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Strictly Happiness Only: In praise of sparkle telly
From some angles, it can appear that the world is one massive dumpster fire right now. The news is filled with political doom and gloom, freak weather incidents are on
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“On this occasion, your application has not been successful”
I was always good at job hunting. So good that I’d have listed it on my CV if that wouldn’t have been terribly counter productive. I stayed in most jobs
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Beauty standards, ageing and confidence
I’ve spent more years than I care to imagine working out how to love my reflection. It might sound strange to anyone who doesn’t identify as a woman, or wasn’t
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Old Old Fashioned
My first boyfriend and I used to write to each other while he was away at university in Swansea. We started writing letters as friends, hooked up one time when
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Breasts and Bras: History, Health and Fashion
For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I am working with the UAL Lingerie Society to organise a mini-symposium entitled ‘Breasts and Bras: History, Health and Fashion’. The event is taking place
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Thoughts on friendship
I often see articles on how to have successful relationships, but these are almost always focused on romantic and/or sexual relationships, which is odd because we have so many other
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What if you just… keep going?
I was on the tube on my lunch break one day recently, dashing a few stops down the line to maximise my time for running errands and also grabbing a
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Second Hand September
I love clothes and, as a result, I have a lot of them. Although they are essentially practical items, designed to protect me from the elements (and the unwanted attention
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I should have known
I should have known that getting older would bring wisdom. I guess it just didn’t quite manifest in the way I thought it would, so I never saw it coming.
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