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Being the good girl

“Why are we rewarded in childhood for the very qualities that won’t protect us as adults?”

VALENTINO VECCHIETTI is a writer, academic, intersex human rights campaigner and a lesbian. They founded Intersex Equality Rights UK.

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The winter holidays can be a challenging time, and for some of us it’s a time when we might feel particularly unsafe. The issue of domestic abuse has been), which was published this year in the Kadak anthology, Bystander.

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