Memoir – Bossy

Memoir July 22, 2022July 22, 2022 by Bossy

Tales of a Sexless Second Year: Abstinence? A Good Thing?

The thing is, if I have sex with a guy and he doesn’t immediately fall in love with me, I’m annoyed. If I have sex with a guy and he does immediately fall in love with me, I’m annoyed. Tell me how I am meant to win here? I realised that this was because I craved the validation of guys telling me: “You’re the only one I can really open up to.” Until I registered the fact that I was only there to make them feel special and solve all their problems.

maybe memory is all the home we’re allowed

I remember the first place I moved out to. It was still, serene, as all plodding outskirts of farm properties are. I thought it was apt that I resided next to a cemetery. It was the attractive part, curated with manicured grass and linear rows of granite headstones. At day, you were meant to grieve; at night, you were meant to avoid it.

Memoir Print 2020 July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 by Bossy

Hoeing: The Therapy No One Talks About

“It is still frowned upon for women to have multiple sexual partners – but there are also a plethora of contradictions that come with it.”

Memoir Print 2020 June 18, 2021July 5, 2021 by Anonymous

I Had Vaginismus

It’s hard to notice how many times a day society reminds you of sex’s importance until someone says you might never be able to have it.

Memoir May 14, 2021May 14, 2021 by Anonymous

Another Emotional Woman

The world needs emotional women – but the fear of failure can often hold them back.

Memoir July 17, 2020July 15, 2020 by Bossy

A Recipe for Anger

One activist recounts her experiences with an insatiable anger against the world, the burnout that followed and why she finally decided to give up.

Memoir Opinion May 2, 2019May 19, 2019 by Bossy

Please select your ethnicity:

My mouse hovered over White. Then Black. Other?

Do you identify as coming from a diverse cultural background: Yes ( ) No ( )

Help.

Memoir January 7, 2019 by Joanna Gaze

Feminism and the Fitness Industry

Being a feminist and working in the fitness industry often feels like something of an oxymoron.

Memoir November 27, 2018December 6, 2018 by Nadia Kim

MyHealth Memories

The doctor doesn’t eye me suspiciously before printing the prescriptions like I expected he would; he just flat-out refuses while staring at the screen. He says he wants a letter from my previous GP. How do I explain that I don’t have a GP? How can I detail my thirteen-year career as a consumer of mental health service – from Canberra to Newcastle, Sydney to Cooma, and back to Canberra.

Memoir November 15, 2018 by Stella McRobbie

18 Months and Counting

Instead of looking for strength, what I wish someone had told me is to find a way to be content again and to just do the thing that makes you happy. Strength can wait.