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Dear Damsels is Changing
Dear Damsels, Today, we’re announcing a transition for DD. We’ve been running this platform for nearly a decade (if you can believe it!) and in… Read More
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Three Hundred and Ninety-Eight Point Two Miles
Samantha Blaney muses on family, identity and all the many ways that we keep connected, in this beautiful essay – our final piece for the theme. Read More
6 years ago
Is it time to settle down yet?
How does your location impact who you are? Sophie Jackson wonders if choosing where to place your roots also means choosing who you are destined to be. Read More
6 years ago
High Street Sizes
The mysteries of a high street changing room are pinpointed in Molly Whyte's poem. Read More
7 years ago
Yellow Shoes
Zoe Paskett's short fiction explores identity and difference – and the pressure to hide it – through a pair of bright yellow shoes. Read More
7 years ago
The Sneeze and the Superhero
You can always count on a cape - as seen in Sandy Bennet-Haber's short story on motherhood and vulnerability. Read More
7 years ago
It All Comes Down to This
What does it mean to be powerful as a woman? Lou Ramsay discusses the emotional and the acceptable in a brilliant essay to open 2018 on DD. Read More
7 years ago
The Cake is a Lie
Kayla King portrays all of womanhood in one stormy, singing poem. Read More
7 years ago
Beneath the Mirror I Lay
Nostalgia spills from Tanisha Rao's poem on past selves and the traces they leave behind. Read More
7 years ago
Fixed Point
The humble potato has been at the centre of Emer O'Toole's culinary consciousness for as long as she can remember. Here, she pens an ode to this starchy stalwart and long-time companion. Read More
7 years ago
The Rising Sun
A woman goes to the seafront at dawn, and considers her choices. Pensive fiction from Eleanor Jones Read More
7 years ago
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