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Rebecca Shaw

Rebecca Shaw

The Guardian

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It’s wall-to-wall lesbians out there! But the sudden acceptance of queerness is slightly complicated

I don’t want to alarm anyone, but if my calculations are correct, it seems we are entering a sapphic-heavy cultural moment. I’ve been a lesbian...

09.05.2024 20

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Rebecca Shaw

Conan O’Brien is going viral for all the right reasons – hot wings and spewed milk

With every advance in human technology comes an advance in weird new emotional situations. For example, the Germans should invent a word for the...

25.04.2024 20

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Rebecca Shaw

What’s so bad about a reboot? It doesn’t dilute the original, it adds to it

As my loved ones, acquaintances, colleagues and strangers who’ve stood in line with me all know, I am not opposed to complaining. I am a...

04.04.2024 50

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I will never understand heterosexual dating culture’s obsession with height. Just get a footstool!

A few nights ago, for some reason, I got served a TikTok where (dating) actors Zendaya and Tom Holland were asked a question about their...

22.03.2024 40

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I have long wanted to be more relaxed about time – luckily, an external force is helping me overcome my intense punctuality

There is a trope within the queer community that we are always running late to things. I was reminded of this last weekend during Mardi Gras (a...

07.03.2024 9

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Rebecca Shaw

I had only middle-aged lesbian passing interest in ceramics – then I discovered The Great Pottery Throw Down …

One thing that is amazing about this world, and I’ve been trying to notice those things more, is that you never know when new love is around the...

23.02.2024 7

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Rebecca Shaw

I tweeted a joke about Drew Barrymore’s tiny TV – and caused an international incident

Twitter/X began its death throes some time ago and is still thrashing about, slowly sinking into internet quicksand like Artax the horse in The...

25.01.2024 30

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Why obsess over Taylor Swift’s sexuality when there are more openly queer musicians than ever?

Sometimes a piece of content is perfectly designed to send various parts of the internet into a Tasmanian devil-style (cartoon NOT animal) whirlwind....

11.01.2024 7

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Rebecca Shaw

Crying in an airport Red Rooster, my lifelong fear of public tears started to crumble

I recently read an interesting chapter (watched a video) in a medical textbook (on TikTok) about a woman who suffers from emetophobia – the intense...

21.12.2023 5

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Rebecca Shaw

My partner and I are on very different sports pages – and that’s probably okay

The closest my queer relationship has ever felt to a sitcom-like heterosexual one is when we try to talk about sport. I was raised with three brothers...

07.12.2023 6

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Rebecca Shaw

So sorry, celebrities, but you should take a tip from Emily Blunt before you offer an insincere apology

Much like with Jane Goodall and the Gorillas (amazing band name), I consider myself a keen observer of celebrities. As I study their culture, via...

16.11.2023 6

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Rebecca Shaw

Movie trailers are far too long. Just give me the vibe, don’t walk me through it like a stupid baby

I f there is one thing people in my life know about me, it is that I am a beautiful genius with incredible skin. No wait, not that one. It’s that I...

07.09.2023 10

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