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  • AI Ramya Artbreeder body positive
    Body & Sex | Home & Identity | Politics & Feminism

    The Body Journey: Tailoring Life to Fit Me

    July 7, 2024May 29, 2025
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    My body journey is about overcoming shame, examining privilege, overcoming mental illness and embracing androgyny, all to live authentically in my forever home.

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  • Ted Lasso
    Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    Decolonizing Ted Lasso: Race & Gender On A Football Field

    June 27, 2024June 27, 2024
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    Ted Lasso – A critical analysis of the show’s portrayal of race and gender dynamics. Unpacks themes of predation, tokenism, and white supremacy.

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  • Daytripper Fabio Moon Gabriel Ba
    Books

    Book Review: DAYTRIPPER – Fabio Moon, Gabriel Ba & Craig Thompson

    May 27, 2024March 10, 2025
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    A book review of DAYTRIPPER by Fabio Moon & Gabriel Ba, by an Indian reader at the same time of her life as them and the protagonist.

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  • AI Heart health care
    Body & Sex | Map Of Emotion

    A Non-Medical View Of The Heart: Angiography & Angioplasty

    April 29, 2024July 22, 2024
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    A family member had an emergency heart procedure. I grappled with placing overnight trust in strangers, making blind assumptions, examining conflicting information and many, many emotions. This is that story of heart health care.

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  • Honour - Elif Shafak
    Books | Home & Identity | Politics & Feminism

    Book Review: HONOUR – Elif Shafak: Trauma Love Of Brown Women

    April 24, 2024March 10, 2025
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    ‘Honour’ by Elif Shafak examines Turkish patriarchy mingling with Western traditions & values. It addresses gendered violence, racism & economic exploitation.

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  • AI artificial intelligence The Matrix green woman
    Digital World

    Hello, AI World: Jetpack AI, ChatGPT For A Blogger

    April 21, 2024July 15, 2025
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    Is Artificial Intelligence really going to replace me? A blogger explores ChatGPT, Jetpack AI and a few other AI content tools.

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  • Mad Men Joy pool
    Home & Identity | Pop Culture

    Mad Men: THE JET SET Was About Unwanted Children

    February 19, 2024July 15, 2025
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    Mad Men S2E11 episode THE JET SET offers a deeper look into the show’s underlying theme by exploring the choice between hedonism and domesticity.

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  • Babri masjid demolition by kar sevaks gateway of India on fire
    City | Poetry | Politics & Feminism

    Thank God: Ramjanambhoomi-Babri Masjid & Bombay Riots

    January 18, 2024April 21, 2024
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    Religion met politics in a thunderclap of violence & my city burnt. It was never the same again. I was never the same again. Thank God.

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  • Annapoorani film
    Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    ANNAPOORANI: What The Film & Right-Wing Got Wrong On Caste

    January 13, 2024July 15, 2025
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    ANNAPOORANI promised a caste discourse but served up a Brahimin fantasy. Right-wing backlash to the film only furthers saffron politics via Brahmin propaganda.

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  • Mad Men The Suitcase Peggy Olsen Don Draper
    Home & Identity | Pop Culture | Relationships | WorkSpace

    Mad Men: THE SUITCASE Is Full Of Peggy’s Baggage

    January 8, 2024July 15, 2025
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    Peggy Olsen contends with her choices of relationships, desire & work in the fan favorite MAD MEN episode ‘The Suitcase’ through three men Mark, Duck & Don.

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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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