CW: sexual assault, sexual harassment, victim-blaming A Dear John letter to her abuser that explores the difficulty of saying "me too.
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Dear John
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7 Days of Earl Grey: A Week of Confronting My Spending Habits
An anonymous money diary.
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Because of Her, We Can
I am a daughter, a sister, a niece, a nana, an aunty, a friend, a colleague, a scholar, Aboriginal, a mentor and a woman. I love being the woman I am and because of her I can.
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A Week in the Life of a Nap-Obsessed On-Campus Student
An anonymous money diary.
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Self-Care For When You Don’t Care
TW: MENTAL HEALTH, DEPRESSION Dealing with depressive episodes can be incredibly difficult. When you search for images of “depression” you’ll likely see an attractive white person crying or sitting with their head in their hands in an elegant black and white photo. In reality, depression isn’t elegant...So, how do you come back from that?
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Dinner, Reviewed
We asked two Bossy writers to give us a culinary review of life’s most mundane and yet most vibrant food experience: the family dinner.
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The Tales That Really Mattered: A Discussion of Fanfiction, Queer Identity And Lord of the Rings
“I had just sat through three movies where Sam had followed Frodo across Middle Earth on a perilous journey, and it seemed obvious to me that after everything they’d been through they would get married ... How could the story now veer wildly off course and have Samwise marry a girl from the Shire?”
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Confessions of a Nanny
“Openly talking about the financial strain of childcare and implying that your nanny and her absurd monetary demands are directly contributing to said strain is an unfair stress to level on an employee — you wouldn’t bully a plumber or an electrician to provide free or cheap labour because renovation is expensive.”
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The Anger of a Powerless Creature
“While anger and sadness are certainly not polarising, I believe that anger typically emerges when you attribute the cause of an unfair, unjust or simply unideal situation that occurs to an external source: the world, a person, or a context. I believe that there is an overwhelming anger to always feeling powerless; as a child, as a woman, as a person of colour and as a disabled person.”
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On the Things I Don’t Say
“There is a moment between when you mention sexual abuse victims and when I speak my next words, where I decide my identity for this conversation.”