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Clementine Ford

Clementine Ford is a writer, social commentator and public speaker based in Melbourne, Australia. As a weekly columnist for Fairfax's Daily Life, she has been unrelenting in her quest to bring topics like rape culture, slut shaming and the misogyny of patriarchal order into the mainstream. Andrew Bolt is her number one fan.

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It’s a Sex Thing, Right?: When Fantasy Becomes Reality

It’s a Sex Thing, Right?: When Fantasy Becomes Reality

Clementine Ford

I’ve done a lot of things to earn a crust. At 13 I wielded the great power that came with occupying middle management at an ice-cream shop. ‘Now, Elise,’ I took pleasure in saying, ‘you know it’s only the top girls like me and Leeane who are allowed to put sanitiser in the scoop water.’ […]

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It’s a Sex Thing, Right?: When Fantasy Becomes Reality

It’s a Sex Thing, Right?: When Fantasy Becomes Reality

Clementine Ford

A Bitter Pill to Swallow: Being on the Dole, Again

A Bitter Pill to Swallow: Being on the Dole, Again

Clementine Ford

‘Luck is what happens when opportunity meets preparation.’ My mother was fond of this quote. She was also fond of that one about success being ninety-nine per cent perspiration and one per cent inspiration, and the one about doors and windows and imaginary men. Unfortunately, the only quotes I’ve ever managed to commit to memory […]

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A Bitter Pill to Swallow: Being on the Dole, Again

A Bitter Pill to Swallow: Being on the Dole, Again

Clementine Ford

Love in a LOL-ed Climate: Internet Dating

Love in a LOL-ed Climate: Internet Dating

Clementine Ford

Before I discovered that the lemons life throws at you are not always suitable for lemonade, I suppose I was like any typical girl who fancied she might one day get married. It wasn’t a question of ‘if’ so much as ‘when’. Marriage seemed to be as much a natural, evolutionary progression of adulthood as […]

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Love in a LOL-ed Climate: Internet Dating

Love in a LOL-ed Climate: Internet Dating

Clementine Ford