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  Birthday lessons
    Body & Sex | Relationships

    Birthday lessons

    March 31, 2008March 30, 2025
    10 Comments

    I had an interesting set of gifts on my twenty-first birthday.

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  • Fiction | Home & Identity

    Memoirs Of A Story-teller

    March 27, 2008March 14, 2023
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    I saw a tag floating around and decided to write my own memoirs in 6 words: I strove for individuality, then acceptance.

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  • Books | Pop Culture

    Black and White and Red

    March 26, 2008March 14, 2023
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    She may have watched Gone with the Wind too many times since she only dresses in black and white. A reflection of the way she thinks. And she supposes that a penchant for red lipstick makes her friend, a close affiliate to Bozo the clown. Bozo reasons that someone who reads Kundera and Murakami,…

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  • Fiction

    A Cube of Ecstacy

    March 22, 2008September 16, 2023
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    Her fingers paused on the edge of the key-stroke. The ceasing of the rapidfire tap-clackety-clack-tap of her keyboard sounded very loud and she glanced up guiltily to see who had noticed. No one had, apparantly, so she breathed in a slow rush of air, settling that odd fear to rest…

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  • adnan
    Digital World | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    A Village To Raise A Child – Scarlette Keeling & Adnan Patrawala

    March 16, 2008April 14, 2024
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    On February 18, a fifteen-year-old British tourist called Scarlette Keeling was found dead on Anjuna Beach, Goa. Death by drowning was the initial statement by the police.

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  Pipes
    City | Politics & Feminism

    Pipes

    March 12, 2008March 22, 2023
    7 Comments

    Exactly what are those pipes?

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  • word empathy on paper
    Map Of Emotion

    Empathy

    March 11, 2008November 7, 2023
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    What makes empathy?

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  • Map Of Emotion

    How Fragile We Are

    March 9, 2008March 14, 2023
    11 Comments

    A death and a birth, how fragile we all are.

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    Politics & Feminism

    What Makes A Feminist?

    March 7, 2008November 7, 2023
    16 Comments

    The world is my bee hive. I am a queen bee. What makes me a feminist? Is it (only) about critiquing masculinity? I think it’s more.

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  • woman looking at the stressed man
    Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    Breaking Up Is A Reason To Celebrate

    March 7, 2008September 16, 2023
    14 Comments

    There is so much of literature available on love – how to find it, how to handle it, how to make it happen, how to make it last. But what about the sometimes inevitable – loss of love? Breakups are as much a reality as relationships

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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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