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Big, shy, angry.
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Fizzy like lemonade.
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View profile →High self-esteem.
I’d have gone solo sooner.
I was recently made to feel that it’s my mental health that’s the problem and not the system.
People who can’t wait to argue.
On stage at the Brixton Academy on the third night of the residency I did there. I walked out and could not stop crying, some sort of mad relief that it’s all paid off and it’s all been worth it.
My internalised misogyny that still manages to cloud some of my thinking.
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