Happy Girl Winter: How to Overcome Seasonal Depressive Disorder
Dance, Artform, Sport: A Brief History of Pole Dancing and How it Helped My Mental Health
Reactions when revealing that you are a pole dancer vary. There are people who fully respect and genuinely support you in your endeavours and others who outright judge and reject you based solely on this one fact. Then, there’s everyone in between. It’s difficult to decipher when people are hiding their disgust underneath a mask of friendliness or if people who aren’t outwardly disparaging you simply have a false understanding of what pole dancing is…
The Gendered Expectations and Politics of Care Giving
Only recently have I come to realise that emotional labour and the physical aspects of my caring have become deeply intertwined with my gendered experience. I grew up in a house of mostly women, and I grew up where adults required care…