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  Where I Take The Power Back
    Body & Sex | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Where I Take The Power Back

    July 29, 2012September 16, 2023
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    I’m reclaiming my right to write. There’s much I’ve felt and been and heard and wanted to say but didn’t. A relationship, an engagement, a bitter breakup…aren’t all of these fodder for a feeling writer? And yet I’ve been quiet. I’ve been under a self-imposed gag order that no one…

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    Map Of Emotion | Poetry

    Back in Stockholm

    July 29, 2012September 17, 2023
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    Your heart is a barren wasteland. It’s where dreams go to die. And hopes have a masochist side. But there’s no going back for me now.

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    Books | City | Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    The City and The City-China Mieville: Stunning, Surreal & Sensational

    July 28, 2012February 25, 2025
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    The City and the City by China Miéville My rating: 4 of 5 stars Recommended by: Sumant Srivathsan At one level, there’s a story about two cities that share the same space. Not twin cities, not neighboring cities even, these are two different cities that sit on the same geography….

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    Digital World | Map Of Emotion

    Online drama because there’s so little of it offline, right?

    July 24, 2012October 3, 2023
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    I feel like a prisoner of the internet. The online binds me but it also nourishes me.

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  Exploring Borders
    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion

    Exploring Borders

    July 18, 2012March 24, 2023
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    It’s a day for flying solo. For being alone. Vegging out, watching mindless TV and pausing to stare out of the window, unseeing into the unclear outside, fogged, smogged and clogged by rain and outsideness. Or for getting lost in a crowd. The storm in the center of a sea…

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  Monday morning
    WorkSpace

    Monday morning

    July 16, 2012March 30, 2025
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    Monday morning says, it’s work, bitch.

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    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion

    A New Death

    July 13, 2012March 24, 2023
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    I’m feeling the pain of being born. It’s as painful as I’m told death will be.

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  Digital Kitchen
    Digital World | Pop Culture

    Digital Kitchen

    July 10, 2012March 24, 2023
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    * Also served at Plain Salted.

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  A Home For The Heartless
    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Poetry | Relationships

    A Home For The Heartless

    July 10, 2012September 17, 2023
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    I was thrown out of the house that I labored to find and turned into a home. There will never be forgiving someone without a heart.

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  Remembering Rehab Chougle
    Map Of Emotion

    Remembering Rehab Chougle

    July 6, 2012July 25, 2025
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    She blogged. She tweeted. That’s how I know her. She liked reading. She liked sharing. Many XXFactored links came from her. She was still a girl. She was almost a woman. She was both. And she was discovering her ideas about womanhood & relationships. She had ambitions like everyone else….

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  • IdeaSmith on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “@Soumya: Thank you for reading and commenting. Yes, I’ve had a good male role model. Unfortunately for me, I’ve encountered…”
  • IdeaSmith on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “@krist0ph3r: ‘Judgement as mental shorthand’ is a great way to look at it. It’s narrow to think of judgementalism as…”
  • Soumya on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “Hi Ramya, Firstly, my congratulations on a well written post. It didn’t pull its punches. Secondly, it was lovely to…”
  • krist0ph3r on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “Wow, that was a lot to process and at some point it got too much for me to handle reading.…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Sid: Oh god, you’re right.”
  • Sid on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “I think the Poser Reader sentiment also comes from the branding reading as a hobby has had. Successful people say…”
  • Topher on Lit Crush: Gabrielle Zevin ‘s Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry: “I too struggle greatly with problematic people who make great things. As a child Bill Cosby brought YEARS of joy…”
  • IdeaSmith on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “@XXfan: Yes, it appears to be a legal requirement for the hospital to show the removed parts to kin, probably…”
  • Xxfan on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “I experience with hysterectomy made me more mature.my mom had to have a hysterectomy.this was my first experience handling everything…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Slogan Murugan: Indeed. Books were always fascinating but this year has been about the people and spaces around books as…”

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