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It's a sad fact that LGBTQ+ people routinely experience harassment, prejudice and abuse in the world of work. Indeed, this is doubly true for queer people who choose to work in the education sector. Gay teachers are often accused by bigoted parents of all manner of conspiracies against heteronormative society: apparently…
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While we all love embedding a cheeky little meme or the perfect GIF in our day-to-day communications, we've got to remember that these memes aren't like emojis or exclamation marks. These memes are of real people, with real lives, and they're out there somewhere existing among the rest of us.…
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Sure, you can probably get by with a few small additions to your car - but do you want to just 'get by', or do you want to make your driving experience as easy, pleasurable and classy as possible? After all, if you're commuting to work or have children to…
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Ugh. Why is it so hot?! Call it a weird anomaly, call it climate change, but whatever it is, it needs to go. Summer, in theory, is a great idea; plenty of outside time, plenty of festivals and lots of swimming time, but the novelty of all that wore off back…
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A lot of people might think that, in 2018, homophobia isn't something people have to worry about anymore - especially not in the western world where we have Pride Months, equal marriage, and RuPaul's Drag Race. Unfortunately, that's not quite true. Sure, a lot of countries have made steps towards…
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If there's one thing we should have learned by now, it's that internet trends are not to be taken seriously. In the past six months alone, we've seen people chowing down on Tide Pods and snorting condoms for the sake of joining in with the latest online fad - and…
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Back in the day, marriage was all about duty, joining families (ahem, wealth) and producing offspring to advance their lineage. But since then, it's arguably turned more into a gesture, where marriage is more about the loving union you declare on paper. Still, some of those old-fashioned feelings about marriage…
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"Hey Mom, how did you meet Dad?" "He sent me an unsolicited photo of his junk on Tinder." You don't hear that conversation very often. Yet men continue trying to seduce women by sending pictures of their schlongs - "pelfies," if you will. Sure, every woman in the past found…
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Losing weight sucks, you guys. If I raided an ancient tomb and found a genie who granted me three wishes, at least one of those wishes would be to make it so that I could get Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's body by doing little more than just eating pizza all…
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It's a common trope that twins do everything together. We often like to think that they always wear the same clothes, enjoy the same food, share the same interests, and maybe even have the same pet peeves about people chewing with their mouths open or not closing the door after…
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Dating is weird. If aliens came down to Earth one day and you had to explain to them that unlike almost every other species on the planet (that simply mount up and get to breedin'), human being instead travel to arbitrary locations in their civilisation in order to decide whether…
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Oh to be young, and to feel love's keen sting. Most likely, the vast majority of people reading this will have experienced heartbreak at some point in their lives. Heartbreak is a natural part of life, and, though it is hard to deal with - particularly when we are young…
