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  Recuperate
    Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    Recuperate

    August 4, 2020February 25, 2025
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    For the ones dealing with long-buried memories and healing from old wounds. It’s time to recuperate.

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  • ramya in black top looking under her hair to her left - sorry
    Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism

    Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

    July 28, 2020February 25, 2025
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    I asked women to tell me about when a man apologised to them. A genuine, responsible, heartfelt sorry.

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  Asocial Eater
    Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    Asocial Eater

    July 28, 2020July 16, 2023
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    I have an unusual relationship with food & people. Namely, I don’t like to be around both at the same time. Am I an asocial eater?

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  Men With Dark Pasts – Indian Matrimony’s Vyasar
    Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | Relationships

    Men With Dark Pasts – Indian Matrimony’s Vyasar

    July 26, 2020February 25, 2025
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    We glorify the dude with the dark past. The slightest chink in the brick wall facade that he calls a personality, is celebrated. But does he deserve us?

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  Is This Feminism? – Hair Removal
    Body & Sex | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    Is This Feminism? – Hair Removal

    July 18, 2020February 25, 2025
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    I made my first big purchase in this COVID-19 year. I bought an epilator. Actually, I replaced my old one that finally gave way in May, in the style of all essential devices going kaput right under lockdown. I felt really guilty about missing my epilator so much these past…

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  Life Finding A Way
    City | Map Of Emotion

    Life Finding A Way

    July 14, 2020February 25, 2025
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    There is a rage in cities that disturbs me. But there is room in a garden for the delicate blooms, sturdy shrubs, pungent herbs & resilient weeds.

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    Patchwork Relationship

    July 14, 2020March 29, 2025
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    All of you homesick for the sickness of love, hating yourself for thinking of an ex, propping yourself on memories of a relationship, wondering if healing will ever be clean. It won’t. It can still be beautiful. Includes a podcast performance.

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  • Ramya reading a book, seated on a mattress on the ground.
    Books | Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    My Soulmate Is A Book

    July 7, 2020April 14, 2024
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    My SoulMate Is A Book

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  Lockdown Style for Survival
    Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    Lockdown Style for Survival

    June 30, 2020July 16, 2023
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    Lockdown is on. I’m showing up for it in style.

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    Digital World | Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    Vulnerability Bait

    June 25, 2020July 16, 2023
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    Art showcases vulnerability, makes honesty accessible, believable, livable.

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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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