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A photo posted by Anne T. Donahue (@annetdonahue) on Jan 31, 2016 at 5:54pm PST Last year’s theme was control. Mainly, that I lacked it over my own brain, and spent most of 2015 navigating the ins and outs of panic attacks, while learning first-hand that the food I used to take comfort in now […]

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A photo posted by Caitlin Agnew (@caitlinagnew) on Nov 2, 2015 at 5:56pm PST Claire was the first person I met when I moved to Toronto from Northern Ontario. We lived across the hall from each other in the basement of an all-girls residence at U of T. I still remember the first time she […]

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On this, the most depressing day of 2016, I wish I were wearing sweatpants. Not because I equate stretchy cotton fabric with sorrow or misery (as if), but because I wish I was always wearing sweatpants. Or specifically, I wish I were always wearing a sweatsuit, but unless you’re Al Pacino as Donnie Brasco in […]

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I don’t remember who gave me my first Anne of Green Gables book, but I do know my life changed significantly after I read about the unpredictable redhead with a penchant for puffed sleeves. That’s why when news broke this week that CBC was creating a new version of the L.M. Montgomery classic called Anne, […]

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When I was in my early twenties, I was assaulted on a GO Bus while commuting to work. That sentence is hard to write even now, 10 years later, because for years I brushed it off as being nothing more than a “misunderstanding” – my misunderstanding. Here’s what happened: an older man, who was maybe […]

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Abusive relationships are tricky because, for me, the physical abuse wasn’t the worst part. The bruises fade and sometimes they were never there at all. But the emotional abuse—it finds a way of lingering around forever. There was the time he hid my keys in his apartment so I couldn’t leave. He pinned me down […]

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Like so many others, I, an awkward misfit of a child, teen (and now adult), learned to embrace my inner freak while watching Labyrinth, listening to Ziggy Stardust, and just letting my Rebel Rebel flag fly. Only a few days ago, I was one of the many social media fiends posting YouTube clips, favourite images […]

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I was ten years old in 1995, which meant I was finally old enough to understand the impact of pop culture (like, sort of). Toy Story opened in December, and that summer, I’d started collecting Babe toys from McDonalds; school was defined by betting (and losing) my collection of Pocahontas and Casper Pogs, and Now […]

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The latest required reading for sophomores in Sweden is outside the norm—every student in the country has just received a copy of We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Nglozi Adichie. The book is adapted from Adichie’s TEDx talk by the same title—which also has a cameo in Beyoncé’s song “Flawless”—and paints a picture via […]

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When I think of the Grammys, I think of a specific 30 Rock episode. After being hired by Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin), P.I. Joe Boyle (Steve Buscemi) recalls a previous mission that took him inside a high school. It flashes back, and he is, all 50-something years, holding a skateboard and wearing a backwards hat. […]

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For the first time in my life I see wisdom in Gwyneth Paltrow. This isn’t to harp on her, or on Goop, or on the fact that I am 99% sure that should we ever meet, she’d ask me not to talk so loudly. It’s to say that we are different. She has an Oscar, […]

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Late last night it was unveiled: David Beckham is this year’s Sexiest Man Alive for People magazine, effectively ending Chris Hemsworth’s reign of handsome. (You’re welcome for that.) Reactions were mixed. Some were convinced People had completely forgotten that One Direction existed, while others were (I’m sure) hoping for a return from former SMAs Nick […]

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