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We’ve lost a lot of words to overuse lately. Mainly because it’s become trendy to go straight for the top-shelf words to communicate distress or confusion or distaste. Genocide, bigotry, hatred, fascism, the list goes on. And one that I find particularly irritating; trauma.
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Long before I considered myself a writer, I aimed to communicate as clearly and simply as possible. Getting an idea across is difficult enough as is. So…
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One of the downsides of sharing your opinions online is the nagging worry that you’re wrong about something important. What if dogs and knitting really…
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As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I’ve been spending a little more time on Twitter lately. And, to be honest, it hasn’t been a picnic. If you wanted to…
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I hope you won’t think I’m oversharing if I tell you that I’m the most sexually open-minded person I know. I think moralistic arguments about…
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For the past few years, trans activism has focused almost exclusively on questioning and redefining womanhood. What is a woman? What is a mother? And…
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As of this writing, I’ve had well over 4000 conversations online. Most of them about “race.” Yet I’m painfully aware that race, as most people think of…
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There’s too much information on the internet. There are too many statistics, too many poorly contextualised soundbites, there’s too much to read, never…
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