New Year, new me: that’s the promise so many of us make to ourselves each January. But for Ashleigh Millman, 23, the first few days of 2017 were spent battling with a sinister new version of herself: she had become the face of a catfish.
Tag: feminism
The Dyspraxic Feminist
(Don’t mistake that scowl for youthful ambivalence. This is the face of an angry feminist who hates having her photo taken. Absolutely done with your nonsense.)
The first time I called someone out for mansplaining, it was because of my dyspraxia.
Interview: Lucy Porter
(Original post at The Boar)
Tell us about your new show, Consequences.
It’s a show about aging, and about how much I’ve let my sixteen-year-old self down, basically. It’s called Consequences because I realised all the things I thought I’d be doing when I was sixteen that I’m very much not doing now. I’m not married to Morrissey, I’m not living in America, and I’m not driving a classic car.
Bob Odenkirk, sexual albatross
(Illustration by Gustave Doré)
My brain betrayed me recently. There is a murky, shadowed recess in the mind of every human being that occasionally regurgitates eldritch truths, truths which haunt them in the small hours of the morning when they’re chasing sleep. I am no exception to this rule. As such, a while ago I was treated to a startling personal revelation mid-way through an episode of Better Call Saul– I kinda, sorta fancy Bob Odenkirk.
Bethan Ackerley 