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The decision that saved my life
The decision that saved my life
I was 25 years old when I had an abortion, and I may not be here today if I hadn’t had it. I remember the day when I realised I was pregnant very clearly. I was at work when the thought arose that I was overdue for my period by about 2 weeks. In the toilets at work as I locked eyes with myself in the mirror, I knew in the marrow of my bones that I was pregnant. After work, I went to the chemist…
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Who gets to have body privilege
Who gets to have body privilege
Over the years what has been considered the “Ideal” body has changed dramatically. Each time period has had one particular type that was in fashion and everyone else who did not fit into that one particular version would have to work, sweat, eat, not eat, cut, colour and preen in the vain hopes to squeeze there unique body into the chosen status quo. In the 20’s it was an almost adolescent form…
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Ode to the city I love(d)
Ode to the city I love(d)
Lockdown 5.0 has settled into Melbourne like a cold grey mist and I like many of my fellow Melbournians are left wondering how the hell did we get here and when will it end. Melbourne is a city of incredible music, world class food, and a love of art in all its forms. From streets set aside purely for street artists to show off their talents to sold out art exhibitions at the NGV. If there is a…
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We're tired
We’re tired
March is the month that celebrates International women’s day. A day that exists to remind us of the unique issues and challenges women face in this world as well as to acknowledge the power and strength women encompass despite having to navigate this patriarchal world built to subjugate them at every turn. This month alone included a woman being abducted and killed by a police officer in London,…
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A page a day: my life in lockdown
A page a day: my life in lockdown
Monday 29th June 2020
Today began with a sob. Yesterday I had discovered my ex has a new girlfriend and my heart broke anew. For 6 months I have grieved, cried, raged and yet still I’m not over it and it is really frustrating. Feeling the ache of ex-boyfriend discoveries on the weekend I was planning to take it as easy as physically possible at work to allow time and energy to sooth my…
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The worst thing that never happened to me
The worst thing that never happened to me
I had only been living in Australia for about a year when my life was altered irrevocably. Standing in a service station one day, the man working at the counter pulled out a photo of me. What I would discover next would split my life in two.
I moved to Melbourne when I was 23. After finishing my university degree in New Zealand, I spent a few months working low paying jobs to save enough money…
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The new normal?
When I was a lot younger I remember my mum had a quote hanging in her house that has always stuck with me. –
“Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.”
I have been thinking about this quote a lot over the last few days as I watch my country of Australia burn. Because here at least it feels like we are…
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It only takes one rapist to ruin your day...
It only takes one rapist to ruin your day…
Another day another woman’s life irrevocably changed by some arsehole.
She was running, on a weekday, at 6:30pm at night which at the moment is when the sun is still pretty high in the sky. She was running in a place of beauty where people walking their dogs and people riding their bikes and families playing with their children frequent daily.
She should have been fine, but she wasn’t.
I’m…
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The waves of death
The waves of death
Death comes to us all but many of us walk around believing that we are immortal.
We may believe at least superficially that our death day will never come. But all it takes is someone close to you to pass for you to realise just how short and fragile life is.
Some seem to see a lot of death in their lives, while others may have seen none. It can seem an unfair disparity. Why do some people have to…
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Is it cheating?
I recently read an article that advised that cheating rates for millennials were on the decline. And on top of this divorce rates were dropping as well.
The reasons for this centered around the fact that people are not getting married as young anymore, they were dating each other for longer and living with their partners before getting married.
Rather than getting married at a really young age…
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A selfish act?
Suicide. Not many words in the English language provoke such strong feelings or make people flinch like that one does. It is a word that divides opinion.
Some think it is a selfish act and others believe it to be the desperate action of someone who is in immense pain.
I for one am in the latter camp.
Suicide is also something that many believe is something only young people do.
If those young…
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A serious case of the Weltschmerz
A serious case of the Weltschmerz
I learned a new word today, weltschmerz.
It is German word that roughly translates as world pain or world-weariness. It perfectly sums up how I feel after the horrendous things that happened in my home city on Friday.
A man who I will not name as he deserves no attention, walked into two mosques in Christchurch where people were peacefully worshipping and he massacred them.
Children, elderly…
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Where are all the 30 somethings?
Where are all the 30 somethings?
I’ve noticed something in recent times that confuses me to no end. There don’t seem to be many women in my work place in their 30s and I’m not sure why.
There are an abundance of twenty-something women and there are quite a few over 40s, but I can count on one hand how many women in there 30s there are including myself and I don’t know what the hell is going on.
Are they all off having babies? Do…
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Stop blaming women for 'daddy issues'
Stop blaming women for ‘daddy issues’
Why are girls of crappy fathers blamed for their ‘daddy issues’? Women are stereotyped as being damaged goods, “slutty” and broken if they have absent or lacking dads.
But why is it that they are blamed for the faults of their fathers?
Is it just another way of making women responsible for the foibles of men?
How can a child be blamed for the actions of their parents?
I think that the reality is…
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Enough with the shame...Period.
Enough with the shame…Period.
There is a new emoji coming out and it is causing some contention. The new emoji is a drop of blood. Clearly this could represent a lot of things, a cut a wound, some other medical emergency. But what it is also supposed to represent and what it was originally created to represent is periods…apparently.
Plan UK had petitioned for an emojito represent periods with the main intention of trying to…
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Here we go again...
Here we go again…
In the last few days there has been an outcry from MRAs and man-babies everywhere about a Gilette Ad that asked men to do better at being men, at the same time another young woman was raped and murdered in Melbourne. That’s a mere 7 months after we mourned Eurydice who was killed the same way. And unsurprisingly the man-babies were silent on this.
Another woman killed by male violence, another…
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Which witch is which?
Which witch is which?
I recently finished watching the new Netflix favourite ‘The chilling tales of Sabrina’ and as a fan of all things supernatural and spooky I was excited to see what this new darker remake would bring to the table. As fun as parts of it were I was ultimately a little disappointed.
If I could be content to just take it at face value and enjoy what it intended to offer then this would have been an…
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