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A Reason to Wake Up in the Morning: A Memoir of Motherhood
In that moment, I heard my daughter’s heartbeat for the first time, and even though I was afraid to admit it until later, I knew then that I was going to be someone’s mother. It was the right decision for me, even though it was difficult and even though it isn’t the right decision for… Read more
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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. Read more
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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? Read more
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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. Read more
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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?” Read more
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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.” Read more
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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,… Read more
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