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I Will Not Sell My Life

An essay about ambition, power, and refusing to sell your life to be taken seriously.

Jan 11 • Danusia Malina-Derben

Tired? Broke? Over It? Great, Here’s Your Gift Guide

Win a Two-Night Reset Stay — A Real One. You Pack a Bag, You Sleep Alone, You Don’t Cook. If you read nothing else in this guide, read this.

Dec 14, 2025 • Danusia Malina-Derben

The Strange Curse of The Capable Woman

How The Capability Blindspot is Fed by the Myth of the Self-Sustaining Woman

Dec 7, 2025 • Danusia Malina-Derben

Swearing Made Me a Better Mother — Fight Me

I’m terribly sorry you had to hear this. I’m British.

Nov 23, 2025 • Danusia Malina-Derben

The Legal Trap No One Warned Unmarried Mothers About

Separation exposes the UK’s dirtiest little secret in family law.

Nov 16, 2025 • Danusia Malina-Derben

Look What I Was Nominated For!

Let’s call this what it is: a tiny, sparkly moment of internet absurdity.

Nov 9, 2025 • Danusia Malina-Derben

Confidence Was the Bait. The Six-Figure Dream Was the Trap.

How women were sold empowerment as a business model, and why the loop keeps feeding itself.

Nov 2, 2025 • Danusia Malina-Derben

What If Good Mothers Have Filthy Minds?

A field report from the fantasies mothers keep under lock and tongue

Oct 26, 2025 • Danusia Malina-Derben

Good Girls Don’t Get Rich

We don’t talk enough about how well-behaved women are still expected to be, even in business.

Sep 9, 2025 • Danusia Malina-Derben

Official: Strong Women make People Lazy

We romanticise fragility and abandon the composed. Here’s what that costs, and why I dressed like contradiction when I read sex aloud in a church.

Jul 28, 2025 • Danusia Malina-Derben

A Clean Kitchen. A Filthy Secret.

A reflection on memoir, truth, and in which I talk dirty and no one dies.

Jul 20, 2025 • Danusia Malina-Derben

The Art of Being a Glorious Disappointment

Because disappointment is the mother tongue of womanhood

Jul 6, 2025 • Danusia Malina-Derben

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