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  Interesting Things
    City | Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    Interesting Things

    October 15, 2019February 25, 2025
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    “She tried to be the kind of person that interesting things happened to.”

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  Holding Hands
    Map Of Emotion | Poetry

    Holding Hands

    October 15, 2019September 17, 2023
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    You’re uncomfortable in silences. In sighs. In whispers. In conversations. How do you feel about holding hands?

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  The Closure Experience
    Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    The Closure Experience

    October 13, 2019February 25, 2025
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    Getting older has me reevaluating what it means to care and thus, how closure looks It doesn’t have to be clean.

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    Body & Sex | Politics & Feminism

    Wish Me Happy Woman’s Day Today And Here’s Why

    October 10, 2019February 25, 2025
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    Twenty-six years ago on this day, I had my first period.

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  A DIY Relationship
    City | Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    A DIY Relationship

    October 9, 2019February 25, 2025
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    Friendship is a DIY kind of relationship that you can tailor to your needs, your personality and the other’s.

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  • low battery
    Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Coming Out Of Battery Saver Mode

    October 8, 2019February 25, 2025
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    I’ve returned to thinking about men and romantic relationships after a nearly two year hiatus. There was just so much going on with other things, health, work and family that my inclinations had all but dried up. I had to shore up my emotional reserves and that meant going into battery saver mode. The easiest thing to stop, the first non essential thing was seeking men to date.

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  • woman wearing red beret and gray long sleeve dress with wild feminist print
    Map Of Emotion | Poetry

    Meeting My Feminism

    September 30, 2019February 25, 2025
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    I grew up feeling like my life would follow the same path as other people – work and you shall achieve, be and you shall receive. It baffled me when I was attacked or called entitled for this, when the boys I knew, weren’t. I wrote about this often. I…

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  • 40 is the new 30.
    Body & Sex | Map Of Emotion

    A Work Of Art

    September 23, 2019February 25, 2025
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    I’m forty this year. I asked myself if my life was a work of art?

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  • Paper Planes
    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Poetry

    Paper Plane Pilot

    September 16, 2019February 25, 2025
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    Writing was my catharsis, till it became my crutch. A paper plane showed me the way out.

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  Just Playing Games
    Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    Just Playing Games

    September 9, 2019February 25, 2025
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    Games are just stories we feel we can script. Simulations of a life we can win. Algorithms we run, hoping for a different outcome.

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Comments

  • 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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