The question
How would you sum yourself up in three words?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Big, shy, angry.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗
Hopeful, egalitarian, overweight.
You are your best thing.
Short. Fat. Jewish.
Driven, sensitive and playful.
I never finished The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir.
Five to 10, when I was just playing out and I didn’t realise I was a girl. Before my boobs came in, basically.
I’d like all my effort noticed.
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.
I had some gynaecological issues that were very sudden, about 18 months ago, and felt that I might be dying. I wasn’t but it was quite serious.
My mind is changing about being a mum. I got a dog and the way I feel about it is a lot, and I realise maybe I would want to be a mum.
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