#34: ‘She Dares To Say’ season 3 announcement
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‘She Dares To Say’ Season 3 announcement
‘She Dares To Say’ is about to return for a new season and it’s beginning on Wednesday 4 October!
This season will see a few changes to how I produce and release monthly content.
The first bit of news is that I’ve teamed up with Female Health & Fertility, a new digital magazine and online hub created to support women and non-binary people affected by gynecological and reproductive issues.
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I’ll be writing a monthly column called ‘Pleasure Principles with Almaz Ohene’. Each digital issue of Female Health & Fertility drops for paid subscribers on the first day of each month, and I’ll be sharing the column here in full for all ‘She Dares To Say’ readers on the first Wednesday of each month. So, on Wednesday 4 October you’ll all receive the first column in the series, ‘Tips for Improving Your Physical Relationship That Don’t Involve Sex’.
Later on in the month, I’ll start publishing a rotating schedule of original content.
First up will be a return to the ‘Authenticity Arena’ sexuality survey interview series, where I gently encourage members of the public to open up about their views and personal experiences of sex. Interviews are formatted as verbatim text transcripts and I also include the audio recordings (with any identifying personal information bleeped out).
And then, I’ll be introducing you guys to two new content strands. These will be…
– ‘Considering my Crushes’ where I share an expansive description along with imagery of one of my celebrity/public eye/fictional crushes from my past/present. As someone who’s experienced crushes frequently and intensely, ever since I was about five; my earliest crushes included Damon Albarn, Blur’s frontman, Peter Pan from the 1990s animated kids TV show Peter Pan & the Pirates, Billy Kennedy from Aussie soap Neighbours, Ernst Robinson from the 1960s Disney live-action film Swiss Family Robsinson and, inexplicably, US President Bill Clinton in the Lewinsky Scandal era.
[Image description: Almaz’s earliest crushes; clockwise: Damon Albarn, Blur’s frontman, Billy Kennedy from Aussie soap ‘Neighbours’, Peter Pan from the 1990s animated kids TV show ‘Peter Pan & the Pirates’, US President Bill Clinton and Ernst Robinson from the 1960s Disney live-action film ‘Swiss Family Robsinson’]
I thought it would be entertaining to try to explain how each of my crushes made me feel. Expect 90s nostalgia, desirability politics and cultural commentary.
– ‘What the notches said’ where I reach out to various people from my sexual past and ask them to answer quick-fire questions about where they were at in life when we dated/hooked-up and how their views/situation have changed in the intervening years. Getting back in touch with old flames can teach us how navigating complex interpersonal dynamics, and although fraught with complication, is an exercise in radical vulnerability, so I’m excited to share our reflections with you all. Expect spiky sarcasm, low-key flirting and existential regret.
I’ll still be continuing the POSTSCRIPT mailouts for paid subscribers, which will include additional content for readers based on the month’s theme. Here’s an example of a POSTSCRIPT mailout that I didn’t put behind a paywall: ‘POSTSCRIPT: February 2022’.
To receive this extra POSTSCRIPT mailout each month you’ll need to upgrade to a paid subscription.
And, as with the previous season, anything that I write that sits outside the season’s general remit will be published as a bonus issue. Previous bonus mailouts include ‘#20: 'The Final Strife’ by Saara El-Arifi’ and ‘#17: Girls at 10 – what Lena Dunham’s show taught us about millennial sex’.
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I’m Almaz Ohene, a Creative Copywriter, Freelance Journalist and Accidental Sexpert.
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I also run in-person and online ‘Developing sexual expression and understanding intimacy’ workshops.
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