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Kitty Drake

Kitty Drake is a writer based in London. She is the co-editor of Ladybeard, a quarterly feminist magazine.

Personal story: Christmas with my family’s therapist

Spending this much time with relatives is a fundamentally doomed exercise. Mine have developed a ritual to cope.

By Kitty Drake

Personal story: Christmas with my family's therapist

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Lessons in rage at Disneyland Paris

When I was ten, Snow White got into a fight with my mother and hit her. We were at…

By Kitty Drake

I spent so long wearing pain like a badge of honour. But what if happiness was simple?

The first time my mother tried Prozac, it was so fabulous, it felt like God. After 32 years of…

By Kitty Drake

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