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  Lessons On Boundaries: Walking Away
    Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    Lessons On Boundaries: Walking Away

    September 24, 2018July 16, 2023
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    Most of us are entrapped in boundaries set by other people that have become prisons. Boundaries are only good when you set them yourself.

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    Home & Identity | Relationships

    I Don’t Celebrate Halloween, Can I Leave?

    September 13, 2018September 16, 2023
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    “I don’t think he ever actually liked me,” I told a friend last week. Incredulous, he asked me, then why was he with you?

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  • Ramya in lipstick art collage
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    AgentsOfIshq: ‘You Should Wear Maroon For Your Skin’ And Other Advice I’ve Ignored As A Non-Fair Woman

    August 27, 2018April 10, 2023
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    AgentsOfIshq ran a story of mine on dark skin pride and my love of colour.

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  The Heads Or Tails Of Digital Dating
    Digital World | Home & Identity

    The Heads Or Tails Of Digital Dating

    August 22, 2018April 10, 2023
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    I switched dating apps. No, this time it wasn’t because awful people drove me away. It’s because Tinder kept demanding my phone number and wouldn’t let me login without it. I’ve never indulged corporations that think they can hold me to ransom, especially when I have a choice. So my…

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    August Is Good

    August 21, 2018August 28, 2023
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    Birthday month came and passed. The birthday was sweet. August is here and I am soon to be officially middle-aged.

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    Closing The Thirties Story

    August 4, 2018September 18, 2024
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    I’m on the last leg of ‘The Thirties Diaries’.

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  Arre: My Tinder Bio – Not Here To Mother 20-Somethings
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    Arre: My Tinder Bio – Not Here To Mother 20-Somethings

    August 4, 2018September 18, 2024
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    Arre ran one of my stories this week and I’m thrilled!

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  Ocean’s 8 — Feminist Or Not?
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    Ocean’s 8 — Feminist Or Not?

    July 2, 2018December 16, 2023
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    The Ocean franchise is what I like to think of as Smooth Masculine (but still very masculine) — a format popularized by the early James Bonds. They’re stylish and suave. They actually talk, even intimidate, with words rather than their fists. In itself, this digresses from the usual toxic masculine image of…

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    I Know It’s Pride Month But I Hate Strangelove | GaysiFamily

    June 25, 2018May 26, 2024
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    I called rainbowwashing in pride month. Alex Strangelove is narcissistic and an insulting representation of queer people.

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    6 Bollywood Characters You Didn’t Know Were Feminist | FeminismInIndia

    June 19, 2018December 16, 2023
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    Can on-screen feminism go beyond the samajh-sudharak, abla naari turned Kali maa & speech spouting devi? Let’s meet some of the subtler on-screen feminists.

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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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