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  • Mad Men Don Draper Betty Draper pregnant
    Body & Sex | Pop Culture | Relationships

    Mad Men: Don Draper & Pregnancy Scares

    September 25, 2024September 25, 2024
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    Don Draper’s personal history with sex and pregnancy scares, may reveal deeper layers to his marriage to Betty. #MadMen

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  • AI Snape Sirius bullying
    Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture | Relationships

    Bullying Insights In Pop Culture: Harry Potter To Mean Girls

    August 22, 2024July 15, 2025
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    Pop culture helps me frame how people behave and who I become. I found some notable insights on bullying in Harry Potter & Mean Girls.

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  • AI violence against women
    Body & Sex | City | Politics & Feminism

    How We Talk About Violence: The Bengaluru PG Murder

    July 27, 2024July 27, 2024
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    A Bengaluru murder reveals deeper issues of gender violence, victim-blaming & cultural conflicts. We need to reconsider how we think about violence.

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  • AI book shelf cathy yardley
    Books | Politics & Feminism

    Book Review: ROLE-PLAYING – Cathy Yardley: Feminism Via ChickLit

    July 24, 2024March 10, 2025
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    Explore the feminist evolution of ChickLit with Cathy Yardley’s ‘Role-Playing’. Delve into diverse characters, complex conflicts & a fresh take on romance.

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  • Indian woman tongue out AI language
    Home & Identity | Politics & Feminism

    Language No Bar, Rashtriya Bhasha Har Baar

    July 14, 2024
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    A woman & I separated by glass makes me think about the dance of language & identity. I trace colonialism & nationalism with my tongue. How shall I reach her?

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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
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    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, 2024March 23, 2026
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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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    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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  • IdeaSmith on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “@Harshaman: What a delightful set of throwbacks it was to receive this comment! First, to the days when one would…”
  • Harshaman on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “Which for me means, looking back at the past with a discerning and curatorial eye I had been thinking about…”
  • Neha Kapoor on Unlikeable Women: It’s Okay To Dislike Her, But Respect Her: “You always have such good book recommendations!”
  • 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…”

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