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Small Revolutions, Every Day: Feminist Life Advice for Very Hard Times
I’ve taken the decision to rename this Substack - to Small Revolutions, Every Day - to better reflect my intentions for it.
May 19, 2025
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Do you need a goal to guide your physical activity?
An SPA Community Post for paid subscribers who want to enjoy Sustaining Physical Activity
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Men in the Women's Movement: Can They Ever Be a Positive Presence?
This week, women have been disillusioned by men whom they previously considered to be staunch feminist allies. So how can we tell which men are true…
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Why aren't more men talking about this?
Sep 7, 2024
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Telling boys and men that they're disadvantaged only hinders them further - and, anyway, it's not true
Mar 11, 2025
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Family estrangement: why do the loudest voices belong to people who have *been* cut off?
Dec 15, 2025
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The Psychopathology of Cancellation
Nov 17, 2025
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Male-only spaces and female-only spaces are not the same
Feb 25, 2025
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Sulky Man-Babies? The Psychology of Resentful Entitlement
Mar 19, 2025
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Men in the Women's Movement: Can They Ever Be a Positive Presence?
This week, women have been disillusioned by men whom they previously considered to be staunch feminist allies. So how can we tell which men are true…
Jan 14
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Why are (some) men so bad at gift-giving?
"It's the thought that counts" is only true when some actual thought has gone into it
Dec 18, 2025
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Do men really die because they have no-one to talk to?
Why we need to rid ourselves of this myth of male unhappiness
Dec 8, 2025
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What has happened to sympathy?
The way we show sympathy towards one another has radically changed over the last couple of decades.
Dec 3, 2025
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The Psychopathology of Cancellation
Trying to cancel someone is a crazy way to behave
Nov 17, 2025
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Grief and Trauma
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Family estrangement: why do the loudest voices belong to people who have *been* cut off?
And why do people who initiate estrangements remain relatively quiet?
Dec 15, 2025
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What has happened to sympathy?
The way we show sympathy towards one another has radically changed over the last couple of decades.
Dec 3, 2025
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Rachel Hewitt
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Why Women Stay Silent after Discovering Men's Secrets
In a number of posts this year, I’ve written about a little-discussed but increasingly prevalent phenomenon: the posthumous discovery of secrets, after…
Oct 28, 2025
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Finding new shapes for time in mid-life
"I am now undeniably in peri-menopause and it's changing my experience of the passing and purpose of time"
Oct 22, 2025
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Long Read: The Lost History of the Widows' Liberation Movement - Part 1
How modern-day grief support groups originated with second-wave feminism, and with one woman in particular
Sep 18, 2025
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Running and the Outdoors
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Do you need a goal to guide your physical activity?
An SPA Community Post for paid subscribers who want to enjoy Sustaining Physical Activity
18 hrs ago
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Rachel Hewitt
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So You’ve Fallen Off the Wagon? How to Get Started Again
An SPA Community Post for paid subscribers who want to enjoy Sustaining Physical Activity
Jan 9
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Finding the joy in physical activity: take charge of your inner voice
A Post for the SPA Community
Jan 2
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Sustaining Physical Activity through 2026 and Beyond: To Plan or Not To Plan?
A SPA Community Post for my Paid Subscribers
Dec 30, 2025
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Join Me in my SPA: my new community for Sustaining Physical Activity
Want to be more active in 2026 and far, far beyond? Join me, and find the joy!
Dec 29, 2025
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Making Things
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"NO PLATFORM": something's rotten in the state of non-fiction publishing
In the past, non-fiction writers built platforms by researching and writing books. Now, writers are expected to *already* possess substantial online…
Jan 6
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The library is finished
No, this isn’t a grandiose pronouncement on the contemporary state of declining literacy, but rather a short post to show off the finished library in my…
Dec 1, 2025
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How to set up a 'tip jar' in Substack
A quick and easy way to allow your readers to tip you, using your existing Substack and Stripe accounts
Nov 27, 2025
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How I turned Ikea Billy bookcases into a gorgeous built-in library
I haven’t done a DIY post in a while, mainly because I haven’t done any DIY in a while, but I’ve spent this last week building myself a library out of…
Sep 29, 2025
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What do running, DIY, trauma and feminism have to do with one another?
Or, in other words, what links all my Substack posts?
May 13, 2025
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No Women Allowed
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What do running, DIY, trauma and feminism have to do with one another?
Or, in other words, what links all my Substack posts?
May 13, 2025
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No Women Allowed...in Gardens
Don't come into the garden, Maud!
Apr 18, 2025
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No Women Allowed...to Eat Pizza
How patriarchal societies control women's consumption
Mar 6, 2025
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Male-only spaces and female-only spaces are not the same
Women who defend female-only spaces should not be dismissed as 'bullies' nor compared to men defending male-only spaces
Feb 25, 2025
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No Women Allowed...in Bars and Pubs
This is the first post of my new project for paid subscribers, No Women Allowed, in which, every fortnight, I’m going to be narrating a different case…
Feb 20, 2025
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