Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.*
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Good(ish) Friday
It’s July, which means we’re officially half-way this treat of a year! Also, this week has not been absolutely terrible for women.
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Circling Back to the Big F
Just as I was getting used to seeing daily announcements of high-level women stepping out of the companies and enterprises they had founded, I also came across an article about the #Girlboss mentality and how it might have met its end as people’s attitudes have dramatically shifted during the pandemic.
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Summer Reads: Writers and Madwomen
The mixture of books I read is eclectic, but oftentimes predictable. There’s fair bit of non-fiction, which I usually read during the day. Fiction is reserved for evenings, and tends to hover between gothic classics and stories about neurotic women. In summer, however, I often read indie novels, and today present you two recent favourites by Lily King and Ottessa Moshfegh.
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The Nineties Called
Personally speaking, the nineties was a good decade. As long as I’m able to see through the aggressively pencilled-in eyebrows and velvet-ribbons-as-chokers, there’s very little to complain about: I became of age, studied in Switzerland twice, grew out of grunge, moved to Scotland and figured out feminism and never looked back.
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Desperately Seeking Inspiration
It still ebbs and flows, my head, like everybody’s, it seems. Summer has officially arrived, and after a couple of successful attempts at al fresco dining and getting drunk on rosé with 3D -people I’ve almost been fooled into thinking that the past 3 months were just one weirdly long, quiet Sunday.
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