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Month: April 2018

On Letting Out the Lunatic

On April 28, 2018 By KatrinaLeave a comment

A boyfriend of mine once said that I was the most normal person he knew.  The comment, halfway between bemusement and belittlement, was a bitter blow.  I yearned to be a bit wild and edgy, but was afraid.  It was unknown territory.  Plus, most of the wild and edgy people I had known were usually …

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The Secret Lives of Older People

On April 19, 2018April 20, 2018 By Katrina11 Comments

It caught me by surprise when I realised that older people do have lives.  As I progressed towards becoming a sad old person with no life, a doom that was almost impossible to think of in any good way in years gone by, things didn’t go according to plan.  Instead, in many ways my life …

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Being Amazing is a Tad Overrated

On April 9, 2018April 9, 2018 By Katrina4 Comments

I am not amazing.  I tried to be, but – alas - I failed.  And, amazingly, I survived it. As a child of the New-Age movement, I recited all the affirmations that were going to re-jig my brain into believing that I was an amazing person if I just said them often enough.  We baby …

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single sex spaces

Single sex spaces are a question of consent

Rachel

A New Zealander living in Scotland who loves cargo bikes

The Lies They Tell

Blogs about the world of gender identity ideology

Debbie Hayton

Transgender Teacher and Journalist

lettersquash | John Freestone

Words, words, words...pressed.

legalfeminist.org.uk/

Wild Woman Writing Club

reviewing new poetry & fiction, writing for women's liberation

Has Anyone Seen My Glasses?

The Plantbase Patriot-Midwest

Thoughts on Health, Nutrition and whatever else is on my mind

Ruth's Reflections

Contemplations from quakey quirky Christchurch

Blame It on Love

Liberate Animals • Liberate Our Spirits

Hangaku Gozen

For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings

Jane Clare Jones

billziegler1947

Without dignity there is no liberty, without justice there is no dignity, and without independence there are no free [wo]men. — Patrice Lumumba

butimbeautiful

You - philosophical, thoughtful, witty. Me - still thinks fart jokes are funny. We should DEFINITELY get together!

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On being vegan - the good, the bad, and the brilliant

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