“Sorry,” the judge interjects, “could you repeat the last statement. I didn’t quite hear you.” The mic in front of me doesn’t amplify my voice – only records it – but I still lean forward to answer. “Sorry,” I repeat. We are all so polite. (It has not begun to bother me yet how polite… Continue reading Once More Without Feeling
I used to be good at sex. You have to understand: I was a stammering ball of terror for most of my teens and early twenties. I used to panic when acquaintances offered me high-fives. I was forty minutes early to every class during my first two years of university, and while my fellow students… Continue reading Guilty Secrets
It’s been a while. If you follow me on Facebook you’ll know that I recently spoke about how miraculous anti-depressants have been for me, how I’ve just recently regained my ability to Human. I have a lot of material to go through before I start properly writing again; I accumulated about seventy-five single spaced pages… Continue reading A Brief Update
There’s a question I didn’t hear asked about the Ghomeshi case. Maybe I wasn’t paying enough attention (I was paying a lot of attention), or maybe everyone else just knew the answer and didn’t think it was a big deal. Maybe you have to be facing a court case to obsess about it the way… Continue reading The Right to Remain Silent
It happens slowly and with setbacks, but it happens. One day you’re curled up on the floor with snot running down your knees, crying so hard you think you’re probably liquefying your entire brain, trying to hold a conversation with your boyfriend through the ooze that is your face…and the next you realize you can’t… Continue reading When Things Get Better
An Open Letter to An Amalgamation of Friends: It’s been a while since we talked. You’re busy and I’m busy and I’m not a bundle of joy these days. “I’d love to catch up,” we say whenever we pass each other, but it never seems to happen. As you may or may not know, it’s… Continue reading Accepting the Unacceptable
From ‘The Red Tree’ by Shaun Tan Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, the important part is this: every card in the heart suit is worth points, and (just like… Continue reading Shooting the Moon is No Fun (Nobody Wants to See Your Bum)
There’s a question people keep asking about the Ghomeshi trial, and I was up most of last night trying to think of how to answer it. I finally shut my brain off by picturing, in as much detail as possible, a solid wall of packed dirt in the dark above me. I spent the rest… Continue reading Fools and Liars: In Which I Tell the Truth
Ways to celebrate International Women’s Day: Concoct a potion of lavender and the shattered glass of ceilings your friends and foremothers smashed through, drink it down and digest it because of your rock solid gut. Get yourself a grass-fed, hormone-free steak from a local farmer and feast of the insecurities of the patriarchy. Buy yourself… Continue reading Happy International Women’s Day
My story without apologizing for bringing down the mood. A room at the Brentwood Bay Lodge & Spa without flashbacks. A wander through a Rexall without shame. A Halloween with someone without thinking “this time x years ago I was…” https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/extreme-self-care-for-modern-ladies?utm_source=broadlyfbuk
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