May 19, 2025
Just read Carmilla. Expect a collage of vampiric sapphic romance on your feed if you're following me.
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Just read Carmilla. Expect a collage of vampiric sapphic romance on your feed if you're following me.
In Cameroon’s Minawao refugee camp, young Nigerians use the game to help rebuild lives put in danger by Boko Haram
“We play football with our friends to ease our minds,” she says. “That’s why they give girls this ball to play with: to forget about what happened to us.”
Twenty players, aged between 15 and 19, train five times a week on a dry, flat area of ground in front of the settlement’s youth centre. The team was formed to ensure girls could play despite a male-dominated environment and its sessions are overseen by Modu, a stern but affectionate 35-year-old who coached a school side in his village before the terrorists forced him to join Minawao’s first influx of arrivals. He leads warm-ups and then, when everybody has loosened, begins a series of passing drills. “If a girl wants to play, she only has to come to me and she’ll be training with us the next day,” he says.
Each of Minawao’s 69,000 inhabitants has lived their own version of a horrifying shared history. Lucy was only nine when her village in Borno state, Kunde, was raided by Boko Haram.
“They arrived and started killing people,” she says. “We hid in a cave at night and it was impossible to sleep. They were holding guns and we were so afraid of them. I lost my uncle and many other people died. We had to run.”
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Most of the girls’ team are still in school, but Lucy is 18 and starting to make a living by sewing headwear. She hopes to become a doctor – “so that if you are ill you come to me and I’ll treat you” – while Fayiza wants to be a news journalist. Isaac emphasises that role models of any kind are vital for Minawao’s young women and believes football has a part to play.
“Watching footballers around the world, people want to be like them,” he says. “It makes them want to play. It’s the same if you watch actors in films. These recreational activities keep us awake, give us good aspirations, because you think of the future and not what happened in the past. Everyone has their own star.”
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I might be Autistic: Exploring and accepting my autism
I might be Autistic: Exploring and accepting my autism
I was sitting in the front seat of my then-boyfriend’s car when he looked over at me and said, “Sometimes I think you might be autistic.” I said, “I could be.” I did not know then that the fact that I did not deny a label that was meant to dehumanize me was further proof that I was most likely autistic. I did not realize he was looking for an out in the relationship, because when I don’t want to…
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Broke my own "don't read sad endings" rule, so I immediately cut it up and made pockets.
Three things about Elsie
A beautiful but haunting tale of mystery, friendship and intrigued but tinged with a sadness that made me question everything whilst I was reading. Three things about Elsie tells a wonderful story of our main character Flos life, in present day and in her teen years growing up with her best friend Elsie. Weaved throughout the story are amazingly loveable characters, a mysterious and sad plot that…
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