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Britney Spears Is Not Crazy
They locked you up. A prisoner, caged by photographers, because your name is worth so much, and your pretty face has a pretty price, so you were hunted every night, by the same demons that destroyed Diana. They always want more from the girls who have given all they have, stalking you through car parks,…
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The Way To My Heart
The way to my heart has never been a mystery, or a shadowed, scary path. There is a map, drawn up and down your arms as I lean into them at sunset, a clear trail of helpful hints, snaking through your living room to the bedside table, where I place my lipgloss and my earrings,…
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Goodnight Guy
Glittering sky behind us, as we ascend and amaze the applauding universe. I tell you that I won’t tell a soul, but your name is sewn inside my smile, and everybody knows that I only smile for you. I kissed you at three AM in a desperate dream. It felt so real, that I was…
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Shut Up Sia
The lives of others are not just lines for your screenplay, not projections you can place neatly on an actress, not fun little trinkets you can use to attract award show voters. They are lives. Real lives, of real people, at risk to the restraint that you said was okay, because you didn’t know enough,…
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Pick Up a Book and Learn Your History
Our pages are torn and tarnished, our past is vandalised and hunted, and so we grasp at every colour of the rainbow, holding tight with wounded hands, to bruised chests, with broken hearts. We are a family, related by our rejection, meeting once a year, all over the world, some bursting with pride, some in…