Monthly Archives: September 2001
Growing up scared
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on September 14, 2001
- Millennials,Risk and fear
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As aeroplanes were crashing into New York’s World Trade Centre, I was halfway through an online quiz to find out if I am suffering from a ‘quarterlife crisis’. Sometimes, the news really puts things in perspective. The quarterlife crisis, apparently, is the twentysomething’s version of a midlife crisis. It refers to the condition of graduating […]
Gay is the new straight
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on September 7, 2001
- Intimacy and commitment
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Two gay couples came as close as they could to getting married in the UK this week, by signing the London Partnerships Register. The register is the latest initiative taken by London mayor Ken Livingstone, and while it does not have the same legal status as marriage, it effectively gives the state’s blessing to homosexual […]
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