#97: ‘She Dares To Say’ Season 4 roundup – No. 01
Revisiting all ‘It Stuck With Me’ vignettes – autobiographical piece capturing the moments from my life that remain etched in my memory
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‘She Dares To Say’ is now wrapping up its fourth season, which began in September 2025. The rotating schedule has included the following content strands:
‘It Stuck With Me’
Autobiographical vignettes capturing the moments from my life that remain etched in my memory.
‘Considering My Crushes’
A returning favourite! Essays describing celebrity/public eye/fictional crushes along with imagery. These posts are mainly guest essays by writers in my community.
Relationship Status: Unfiltered
A bold interview series speaking to people across the spectrum of romantic and sexual experience, from high school sweethearts and solo polyamorists, to swingers, co-parents, serial monogamists and asexual folk. Each conversation follows the same of questions, revealing what people really think about love, commitment, dating and desire; from the inside of these relationships themselves.
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This post will round up all of this season’s ‘It Stuck With Me’ vignettes.
Previous posts:
During my late twenties, just tipping into my thirties, I lived in a chaotic North London houseshare nick-named ‘Slut House’ where friendship, sex, nightlife, and confession all blur together into a riotous shared way of life.
In this interview, I reconnects with a former editor from the online magazine that sent me on that infamous press trip to Sicily back in 2010. What begins as a conversation about journalism and unpaid labour evolves into a candid discussion about mental health, diagnosis, stigma and storytelling:
I’m 21 in this one, and I’ve suddenly found myself to be an appealing object of desire for several men while away in Sicily on a press trip (!).
The POSTSCRIPT mailout for paid subscribers features the original piece that I wrote for the publication after returning from the trip. Although the outlet no longer exists, I had the foresight to copy and paste the published piece from the internet onto MS Word, so I still have it in my archives. Of course, it was just a functional hotel review feature that didn’t reveal anything about the exploits we’d all got up to. To read in this piece, upgrade to paid:
In this vignette, I’m 19 and am having a delicious experience being the delectable filling in a ‘rasta sandwich’, while dancing with two men in a bar in Accra. Partially paywalled. To read in full, upgrade to paid:
Guest post by a fellow Substacker who wishes to remain anonymous. This one is about a visit to a strip club:
It’s the summer of 2007, and I’ve just finished school forever. I’m partying with some guy friends in the coastal town of Bournemouth, UK. We end up in a strip club… Partially paywalled. To read in full, upgrade to paid.
I revisit a relationship I first wrote about in a piece for British Vogue in 2020. At 24, I met a 50-year-old divorced man at a literary event and a year later began a sporadic sexual relationship with him. Partially paywalled. To read in full, upgrade to paid.
I wrote about an age-inappropriate flirtation-of-sorts I had when I had an after-school job as a teen. His attention is addictive, especially when compared to how the boys my own age ignored me:
I’m at a sleepover party at my friend’s 10th birthday. Her parents run a pub, so they live in the flat above. As usual, all of us girls are up to mischief. Partially paywalled. To read in full, upgrade to paid:
I’m nine or 10 years old and together, my primary school pals and I find a playing card in the dirt. It’s pornographic and we are stunned. Partially paywalled. To read in full, upgrade to paid:
It’s the summer of 1997 and I’m having the best time dancing to Hanson’s ‘MmmBop’, the Grease MegaMix and T-Spoon’s ‘Sex on the Beach’ (inappropriate!):
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The ‘POSTSCRIPT’ segment for paid subscribers will drop on Wednesday 20 May and will feature descriptive reflections of each of the vignettes and how my readers have responded to the series.
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