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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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I’m From Wigan, Me: A Love Letter To My Home Town
Published 14th October 2020 by The Hysteria Collective. On the main road, the buzz of suburban, school-run traffic makes for a polite yet incessant accompaniment to my uphill walk. I squint my eyes, fighting against the sun, and see the corner shop on the horizon. My strides get longer and faster. Pushing the door open, […]
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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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A Film For Every Day of Women’s History Month
Published 1st March 2020 by Screen Queens Representation of women within the arts, and especially in film, is regularly used as the way that society ‘measures’ the progress of feminism; we only have to look back at the 2020 awards season to see an example of this. In this analysis, I think that it is […]
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Check out Warehouse’s £250,000 makeover and live music plan in celebration of their 40th anniversary
Published January 2020 by The Tab Warehouse has recently revelled in a £250,000 makeover as it celebrates its 40th anniversary of live music and club nights. Based on Somers Street, the investment has gone into the production element of their events, as well as three rooms with a capacity of 600 for gigs, and 1100 […]
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Don’t freak out but Blue Rinse is opening a new five storey shop in Leeds
Published November 2019 by The Tab Prepare yourselves: Blue Rinse has confirmed that it is opening a brand new five storey home in the centre of Leeds. There are probably flocks of students queuing outside of the Crown Fisheries building already; elbows ready to jab anybody that gets in their way of buying that perfect […]
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