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August's Newsletter

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Why I became left-handed

After my diagnosis, I didn’t have a choice

I wrote my book by hand

And it completely changed my creative process

Heart of Darkness: My Dinner with Esther Perel & Hinge (Pt. 2)

Activist hypocrisy, love at first sight, and the tragedy of the influencer.

Heart of Darkness: My Dinner with Esther Perel & Hinge (Pt. 1)

The subject line was overwhelming, bedazzled with emojis and punctuation.

Purity Embodied

You’ll marry me but you won’t get on a bus.

We Should Go

Our first and last trip as a couple

Cemetery Tree

He wanted to treat people well, but he didn’t always know how.

I am a changed woman

Two life-altering events from the past year.

This Is a Picture of Michael Jackson

On veganism, bisexuality, and other modern concerns.

Spayed

The winter I ran away to Wisconsin

Bedpan Romance

I met a strange man online. He turned out to be real.

Sent from the public library

Diary of my first week without a computer

Clingy

Outrunning attachment in Glasgow

My sick, privileged body

Do we have to talk about disability?

Television appearance

And other scenes I replay on loop

No thanks, but you go ahead

On drinking

Casual dating

A list of all my romantic encounters since the start of the year

Resolutions

I have let people down. I have lied for no reason. I have lied for good reason, which is even worse. My lifestyle is contingent on the generosity of people I’ve left behind.

Alone, adrift, abroad

A personal history of unorthodox holidays

You don't need a smartphone

An excerpt from my forthcoming pamphlet

Eulogy for my father

I needed to grow up in the orbit of someone who lived by his own rules.