One of WordPress' slightly creepier features allows me to see that a whole bunch of people have been coming to my blog looking for reviews of Clue Plus - the paid-for version of a popular menstrual tracking app. I reviewed it when it was called 'premium' and still super expensive, but now that the new…
Tag: Feminism
Down a different rabbit hole… #Periodically 30
For whatever reason, the area between my legs has always been a place of curiosity for me, perhaps not helped by my discovery of the vagina-brain connection theory discussed in Naomi Wolf's Vagina. Recently, and with help from my psychosexual counsellor, I've realised that this 'curiosity' might have meant I always had a certain 'vulnerability'…
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Review: Promising Young Women
Like with most stories that start with a twenty-something London-based office worker navigating the breakdown of a long-term relationship, your mind settles in for a harmless piece of Chick-Lit. And then Caroline O'Donoghue's Promising Young Women knocks you off-centre by turning into something else entirely. The praise on the book's sleeve repeatedly uses the word "gothic."…