Category: The Indiependent
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It’s Okay If You’ve Dropped Your New Year’s Resolutions Already
Published 10th January 2021 by The Indiependent. Love Letters To My 20s: A Fortnightly Column On The Stigma Surrounding Our Twenties. “You don’t need a new you. You don’t need replacing every year like another iPhone. Don’t throw yourself away like another piece of plastic trash. Love the old you. Improve, evolve, do better, but […]
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Platonic Love Can Be The Greatest Love Of All
Published 29th November 2020 by The Indiependent. Love Letters To My 20s: A Fortnightly Column On The Stigma Surrounding Our Twenties. “Nearly everything I know about love, I’ve learned from my long-term friendships with women.” – Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love. It’s so easy to walk through life tunnel-visioned when you’re in a new, romantic […]
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Family Is A Privilege, Not A Right
Published 4th October 2020 by The Indiependent. Love Letters To My 20s: A Fortnightly Column On The Stigma Surrounding Our Twenties. “It’s important to keep in mind that we decide the value people have in our lives, which means we can significantly control how much they affect us. It also means we can decide how much space […]
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The Art Of The Panic Masters: How Do I Graduate?
Published 20th September 2020 by The Indiependent. Love Letters To My 20s: A Fortnightly Column On The Stigma Surrounding Our Twenties. “‘Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future,’ noted the writer Kahlil Gibran, ‘but from wanting to control it.’” – Pandora Sykes, How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right? Ah, Masters degrees. Filled with […]
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Criticism Can Be Your Friend, If You Let It
Published 6th September 2020 by The Indiependent. Love Letters To My 20s: A Fortnightly Column On The Stigma Surrounding Our Twenties. “Uncomfortable and liberating- exactly what growth is supposed to feel like.” – Florence Given, Women Don’t Owe You Pretty. Criticism is a weird one. It can simultaneously hurt your ego, crush your passion, and […]
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Idolising Your Teenage Body: I ‘Peaked’ In Sixth Form Too
Published 23rd August 2020 by The Indiependent. Love Letters To My 20s: A Fortnightly Column On The Stigma Surrounding Our Twenties. “I wish for that time back. All that time that was supposed to be about discovering the world and who I was became wasted on making myself smaller and smaller. Imagine if we all […]
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Introducing ‘Love Letters To My 20s’: Life Doesn’t End At 25
Published 9th August 2020 by The Indiependent. Love Letters To My 20s: A Fortnightly Column On The Stigma Surrounding Our Twenties. “Rambunctious, restless and ramshackle. Roving, raucous and rebellious. My roaming decade; my roaring twenties.” – Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love. “Your twenties,” slurred my best friend’s mum, before she hiccupped, giggled and sipped […]
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My Body, My Choice: My Questions for Alabama
Published 18th May 2019 by The Indiependent If you haven’t heard the news: on Tuesday, Alabama’s Republican-controlled state senate passed a bill to outlaw abortion, challenging the Supreme Court’s ruling that legalised abortion across the country in the 1970s. Since then, other states have discussed bringing in the same ban, with Missouri joining Alabama by […]
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