#98: ‘She Dares To Say’ Season 4 roundup – No. 02
Revisiting all ‘Considering My Crushes’ essays describing celebrity/public eye/fictional crushes along with imagery
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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.
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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 ‘Considering My Crushes’ essays
Previous posts:
Gigi Engle, certified sex & relationships psychotherapist, sex educator and award-winning author speaks to Almaz
Dani Conlon, community manager in the reproductive health and sexy space, writes about her crushes from the late 1990s and early 2000s, which were animated TV characters as well as and Hollywood film stars:
Ally Iseman, CRC, a modern relationship expert and founder of global platform Passport 2 Pleasure describes her crush on animated Disney character Aladdin as a kid, which then played out in the early 2000 when she hooked-up with a EuroDisney actor who played Aladdin:
Founder of multi-award-winning anti-racist brand consultancy, Brand by Me, Collette Philip writes about her crush 80s British television star Matthew Kelly, pop superstar Michael Jackson and the cultural ubiquity of whiteness:
Podcaster and journalist Bethany Burgoyne writes about her early 00s crushes on cute actor Jeremy Sumpter in his role as Peter Pan and a whole host of fine young women from TV and film:
Writer and civil liberties expert Gracie Mae Bradley described her late nineties and early noughties rock star crushes Tom DeLonge from rock band Blink-182 and Less Than Jake band member Chris DeMakes:
Sex Educator Ruth Ramsay wrote about her 80s and 90s crushes that were sparked by seeing leather and bondage in pop and rock music video for bands like Duran Duran, Mötley Crüe and Eurythmics:
Revisiting all ‘Considering My Crushes’ essays from Season 3, featuring writers Oli Lipski (AKA ‘The Queer Sensualist’), Justin Myers (AKA ‘The Guyliner’), Peter Apps and Karla Marie Sweet:
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