My Undergraduate Awards 2018 Speech
ICYMI: in mid-November I went back to Dublin to speak at The Undergraduate Awards as an alumna. This short post is about my talk, its outcome and what it means to me.
Carolina
I'm an Italian Londoner, writer, pole dancer and fitness, food, travel and lifestyle blogger.
Life as a young female academic
You mostly know me/follow me for my butt-naked antics, but there is another not-so-secret part of my life that inspires me, challenges me and makes me angry everyday. I’m a PhD student, a researcher and a visiting lecturer, and I’ve…
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Briefs: Close Encounters at Leicester Square Christmas
Feeling like you are bloody tired of our world? Trust me, I’ve been there. Which is why I’ve nursed my Earth escapism with a visit to Briefs: Close Encounters, the most dragtastic boylesque show you NEED in your life right…
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Dancing With Depression: Performing And Not Feeling It
The different directions my life is going into mean that I find myself in the fortunate – or, sometimes, unfortunate – position of performing very often. Although I’m very grateful for my dancing, work and presenting commitments, as someone suffering…
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The Pole Dancer’s Guide To Sydney
ICYMI, I spent a year and a half of my life in Sydney, Australia. I’m very happy to have moved back to London and to Europe, where my friends, family and heart are, but my time in Sydney was fun,…
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Being Unapologetic
This week I’ve decided to do that very emo thing where I promote being unapologetic about yourself and your weirdness, whether it’s about your social media, your dating life, your awkwardness, or whatever it is that makes you you. I realise this…
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How To Instagram Without A Boyfriend
Many of you have asked me: “Who takes your pictures?” Not because they’re particularly good, but because you probably know I’m a serial solo traveller and that I’m VERY single. So can you still Instagram without an Instagram boyfriend/girlfriend –…
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The Pole Dancer’s Guide to Washington DC
Back in Washington DC, you say? I thought it would have been a while before I got back to the States after my 2014 solo Couchsurfing trip. Little did I know that good old academia would take me back to…
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An Italian girl’s guide to what food you should eat in Naples
Italy is famous for its yummy food, and Campania – the region that is home to Naples and the Amalfi Coast – surely helped to build up Italy’s reputation as a foodie country. But there’s more to Naples than its…
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Floating therapy at The Floatworks
I read somewhere that floating therapy was all the rage to combat stress and anxiety, so I floated for an hour at The Floatworks in Vauxhall. Here’s what I thought about it. My mental health If you follow my blog you…
