Stella Duffy
@stellduffy.bsky.social
Pākehā Londoner; Dr (not the medical kind), existential psychotherapist, supervisor, doctoral research in postmenopause; writer of 17 novels/70+ stories/15 plays, yoga for writing workshops; 2 x breast cancer; knee, hip, & some brain mended with metal
Oh god. Just watched the Andrea Gibson film. Beautiful and heartbreaking and all that LOVE.
November 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Oh god. Just watched the Andrea Gibson film. Beautiful and heartbreaking and all that LOVE.
And so it was that throughout the lands, as news readers named Watson and Crick as the discoverers of the DNA helix, a rousing chorus of “Rosalind Franklin” was directed towards the news.
November 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
And so it was that throughout the lands, as news readers named Watson and Crick as the discoverers of the DNA helix, a rousing chorus of “Rosalind Franklin” was directed towards the news.
Tonight I went to Inferno Hot Pilates, first since 2nd hip replacement 10.5 wks ago. & for first time in maybe a decade NOTHING hurt (1st hip is 2yo, knee is 1yo).
insane combo of Pilates & HIIT & hot room hurt. But I didn’t.
I’m v osteoarthritic & it can’t last, but just now it’s very lovely.
insane combo of Pilates & HIIT & hot room hurt. But I didn’t.
I’m v osteoarthritic & it can’t last, but just now it’s very lovely.
October 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Tonight I went to Inferno Hot Pilates, first since 2nd hip replacement 10.5 wks ago. & for first time in maybe a decade NOTHING hurt (1st hip is 2yo, knee is 1yo).
insane combo of Pilates & HIIT & hot room hurt. But I didn’t.
I’m v osteoarthritic & it can’t last, but just now it’s very lovely.
insane combo of Pilates & HIIT & hot room hurt. But I didn’t.
I’m v osteoarthritic & it can’t last, but just now it’s very lovely.
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NEXT WEEK!
How to Reframe the Transition to Postmenopause as a Creative Turning Point - LIVE event with Dr Stella Duffy and Prof Digby Tantam
You can join in LIVE or purchase the recording. Use the link below to choose.
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#therapistsConnect #training4therapists #counselling
How to Reframe the Transition to Postmenopause as a Creative Turning Point - LIVE event with Dr Stella Duffy and Prof Digby Tantam
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#therapistsConnect #training4therapists #counselling
How to Reframe the Transition to Postmenopause as a Creative Turning Point
How to Reframe the Transition to Post Menopause as a Creative Turning Point, A Society of Psychotherapy Workshop with Dr Stella Duffy
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October 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
NEXT WEEK!
How to Reframe the Transition to Postmenopause as a Creative Turning Point - LIVE event with Dr Stella Duffy and Prof Digby Tantam
You can join in LIVE or purchase the recording. Use the link below to choose.
buff.ly/YJdvmQT
#therapistsConnect #training4therapists #counselling
How to Reframe the Transition to Postmenopause as a Creative Turning Point - LIVE event with Dr Stella Duffy and Prof Digby Tantam
You can join in LIVE or purchase the recording. Use the link below to choose.
buff.ly/YJdvmQT
#therapistsConnect #training4therapists #counselling
Writing about #menopause & that it's NOT ALL BAD, though the ageism, misogyny and pronatalism of the marketeers leaves a lot to be desired.
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What the menopause marketers won’t tell you: ageing is to be celebrated | Stella Duffy
Advertisers exploit our misogynistic culture, making women feel as if their bodies are broken. But better information might just help, says writer Stella Duffy
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October 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Writing about #menopause & that it's NOT ALL BAD, though the ageism, misogyny and pronatalism of the marketeers leaves a lot to be desired.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#worldmenopauseday tomorrow & my disappointment (though not surprise) at the paucity of research into #menopause & #disability ...
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World Menopause Day – what about disability?
For much of the past year I’ve been rewriting my academic thesis on the embodied experience of postmenopause as a trade non-fiction book Being the Change for Virago, who publish my fiction. I…
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October 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
#worldmenopauseday tomorrow & my disappointment (though not surprise) at the paucity of research into #menopause & #disability ...
stelladuffy.blog/2025/10/17/w...
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Workshop 6pm Monday 27th Oct (recording also available) in #postmenopause as a time of creative possibility. An existential, psychotherapeutic and creative look at #menopause as turning point, opening towards our vital third act. All welcome.
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How to Reframe the Transition to Postmenopause as a Creative Turning Point
What if we looked beyond colonial Euro-North American ideas of ageing to learn from other cultures? And what creative possibilities might open for us if we perceived the transition to postmenopause an...
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October 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Workshop 6pm Monday 27th Oct (recording also available) in #postmenopause as a time of creative possibility. An existential, psychotherapeutic and creative look at #menopause as turning point, opening towards our vital third act. All welcome.
onlinevents.co.uk/event/how-to...
onlinevents.co.uk/event/how-to...
Sending love to our Jewish friends in and from Manchester, especially those whose shul suffered this horrible attack, and the many who will now be even more worried about being attacked for their faith.
October 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Sending love to our Jewish friends in and from Manchester, especially those whose shul suffered this horrible attack, and the many who will now be even more worried about being attacked for their faith.
Ah, October, time for my annual share of this piece about how breast cancer is not pink, not pretty, & not helped by infantilising or anthropomorphising the disease. Be aware, raise funds (check where you're sending them!), but ffs, please stop pretending it's cute. stelladuffy.blog/2017/10/01/t...
The Pinking of October
Oh dear. I just realised it’s October, aka breast cancer awareness month. A whole month of pinking up something that is neither pretty nor pink. Sigh. Here’s what I hate about it …
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October 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Ah, October, time for my annual share of this piece about how breast cancer is not pink, not pretty, & not helped by infantilising or anthropomorphising the disease. Be aware, raise funds (check where you're sending them!), but ffs, please stop pretending it's cute. stelladuffy.blog/2017/10/01/t...
This Wednesday 24th evening I'll be joining Welldoing to share some research and thinking and perhaps a creative writing exercise or two on finding the value and possibility in #postmenopause (that's right, #menopause is definitely NOT the end!)
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What Stella Duffy's research reveals about post-menopausal life
Join us for a deep dive into Stella Duffy's enlightening doctoral research into life after menopause
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September 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This Wednesday 24th evening I'll be joining Welldoing to share some research and thinking and perhaps a creative writing exercise or two on finding the value and possibility in #postmenopause (that's right, #menopause is definitely NOT the end!)
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What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power.
This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.
This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.
September 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power.
This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.
This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.
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I love London so much. So much.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
September 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I love London so much. So much.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
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The media making out like the Robinson Rally was huge. 150,000 is tiny!
Compare it to the 'Free Palestine' march (up to 800,000), the anti-Brexit march (650,000) or the Iraq war demo (1.5 Million)
Disproportionate attention given to the gammon, as always.
Compare it to the 'Free Palestine' march (up to 800,000), the anti-Brexit march (650,000) or the Iraq war demo (1.5 Million)
Disproportionate attention given to the gammon, as always.
September 14, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The media making out like the Robinson Rally was huge. 150,000 is tiny!
Compare it to the 'Free Palestine' march (up to 800,000), the anti-Brexit march (650,000) or the Iraq war demo (1.5 Million)
Disproportionate attention given to the gammon, as always.
Compare it to the 'Free Palestine' march (up to 800,000), the anti-Brexit march (650,000) or the Iraq war demo (1.5 Million)
Disproportionate attention given to the gammon, as always.
A working class hero is something to be. But NOT if you’re a working class woman. Yes the whole Rayner thing is messy and yes Starmer’s tenure so far has been very disappointing but ffs, after the absolute SHITSHOW of Tory lies and cronyism for years sure, the working class woman has to go. Aaargh.
September 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
A working class hero is something to be. But NOT if you’re a working class woman. Yes the whole Rayner thing is messy and yes Starmer’s tenure so far has been very disappointing but ffs, after the absolute SHITSHOW of Tory lies and cronyism for years sure, the working class woman has to go. Aaargh.
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trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
August 31, 2025 at 1:16 PM
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
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So I imagine that folks who insisted it wasn’t ethnic cleansing, land theft, forced removal are lined up to apologize for insisting that this was just about defeating Hamas fighters and the return of the hostages.
The Trump plan for Gaza includes the relocation of the entire population - 2 million people - a US “trusteeship” and the creation of a tourism and tech hub.
Landowners get digital tokens worth $5,000 and rent subsidies. Investors are promised 4x return on $100 billion.
Landowners get digital tokens worth $5,000 and rent subsidies. Investors are promised 4x return on $100 billion.
Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population
President Donald Trump and international partners are discussing plans to build a “Riviera of the Middle East” on the rubble of Gaza. One would establish U.S. control and pay Palestinians to leave.
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August 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
So I imagine that folks who insisted it wasn’t ethnic cleansing, land theft, forced removal are lined up to apologize for insisting that this was just about defeating Hamas fighters and the return of the hostages.
For anyone who loves reading, loves books, loves INDEPENDENT bookshops (whether you're in south London or not), if you have a book you plan to buy this weekend - you might want to buy it via @booksellercrow.bsky.social - see this thread and support an indy that needs your love and custom just now. x
August 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
For anyone who loves reading, loves books, loves INDEPENDENT bookshops (whether you're in south London or not), if you have a book you plan to buy this weekend - you might want to buy it via @booksellercrow.bsky.social - see this thread and support an indy that needs your love and custom just now. x
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Deeply concerned that changes to trans rights could be approved without MPs or the public seeing details. This risks undermining accountability on issues affecting lives and freedoms. Proposals must face scrutiny before approval. Everyone deserves to know what’s being decided in their name.
August 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Deeply concerned that changes to trans rights could be approved without MPs or the public seeing details. This risks undermining accountability on issues affecting lives and freedoms. Proposals must face scrutiny before approval. Everyone deserves to know what’s being decided in their name.
Quick question - Trixie or Nancy?
August 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Quick question - Trixie or Nancy?
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Take a moment to appreciate Harry Truman‘s negotiating skills. He got Hitler to surrender everything, agree to Germany’s occupation and then shoot himself in the head.
JD Vance: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."
August 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Take a moment to appreciate Harry Truman‘s negotiating skills. He got Hitler to surrender everything, agree to Germany’s occupation and then shoot himself in the head.
This was a great listen, especially re problems with the relentlessly negative #menopause narrative contributing to #genderedageism in the workplace. Also v helpful thinking on ACE & socioeconomic factors contribution to difficulties in the menopause transition.
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Understanding the female brain at midlife with Dr Sarah McKay
Podcast Episode · Magnificent Midlife · 05/08/2025 · 48m
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August 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This was a great listen, especially re problems with the relentlessly negative #menopause narrative contributing to #genderedageism in the workplace. Also v helpful thinking on ACE & socioeconomic factors contribution to difficulties in the menopause transition.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
#RWC2025 loving the #England team 🌹 🌹 beautiful passing, great tries. Obviously I’ll be shouting for #BlackFerns on Sunday. It’s only right.
August 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
#RWC2025 loving the #England team 🌹 🌹 beautiful passing, great tries. Obviously I’ll be shouting for #BlackFerns on Sunday. It’s only right.
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Listening to a (v good) BBC Woman's Hour on Women's Rugby World Cup & realising I'm going to have to spend the next month shouting at radio & TV "hah-ka not hacker!!" (haka) "Sah-more (ish!) not S-mower" (Samoa). Sigh.
August 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Listening to a (v good) BBC Woman's Hour on Women's Rugby World Cup & realising I'm going to have to spend the next month shouting at radio & TV "hah-ka not hacker!!" (haka) "Sah-more (ish!) not S-mower" (Samoa). Sigh.
I’m sure Elodie Harper’s book about Boudicca’s daughter is great, but I was stunned to hear a long discussion about it on BBC Front Row and NO mention of Manda Scott’s enormously successful Boudicca books.
August 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I’m sure Elodie Harper’s book about Boudicca’s daughter is great, but I was stunned to hear a long discussion about it on BBC Front Row and NO mention of Manda Scott’s enormously successful Boudicca books.