This week, I renewed this website for another year. It almost didn’t happen: I left it to the very last minute, after weeks of ignored reminder emails, before the service ceased. I spent the time considering whether I should keep it going, or let it quietly die, seeing as I haven’t published anything new in so many months. I actually haven’t written anything new, to […]
Body Matters / Eating Disorders / Identity
What’s in a name? Pt. 2
CW: eating disorders, weight-loss There are times when eating everything isn’t sexy. Sometimes after eating a McDonalds, I don’t joyfully suck dick; I throw up. Not deliberately; involuntarily, due to the sheer volume of food I’ve eaten in a short space of time, the combination of the two causing my digestive system to shudder and churn and billow, and the storm that was brewing suddenly […]
Body Matters
A letter to the guy who dumped me for being fat
Hello there, I hope you’re well! I’m writing this to prevent me from screaming it down the phone at you. So firstly, you’re welcome. Secondly, fuck you. … On our first date there was a moment; one of those little moments that people like me write about in fiction about love and romance and perfect, tempestuous relationships that are tested but always come back from […]