Dawn O'Porter
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Dawn O'Porter has made documentaries for BBC 3, Channel 4, Sky 1, FIVE, TLC (USA) and We TV (USA). Some of the subjects covered are female body image, breast cancer, polygamy, geisha, Free Love and child birth. Dawn regularly writes for various magazines and daily news publications. Her debut novel, Paper Aeroplanes, is due for release May 2nd, 2013. It is the first in a series of books about two teenage girls called, Renée and Flo. Read her blog and published articles here - http://dawnporter.wordpress.com

Blog Entries by Dawn O'Porter

I Asked Twitter What I Should Blog About - The Most Popular Question? How Do You Feel About Trolls...

(52) Comments | Posted 3 August 2012 | (01:00)

Trolls, eh? How do I feel about trolls? I hate them, the spiteful, nasty, low life bastards. That's how I feel about trolls.

I have been trolled, trolled real hard. Trolled so hard I haven't slept for days. Trolled so hard my self esteem has been left raw and sore....

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We Should Be Encouraging People to Rescue Dogs, Not Presenting the Idea of Having One as a Social Kiss of Death.

(16) Comments | Posted 21 June 2012 | (01:00)

**DISCLAIMER** I am useless at administration.

I recently got the ferry back to Guernsey to see my family, I do this a lot as it means I can take my dog. The ferry takes around three hours and isn't too hard going for Potato, my rescue Jack Russell. This...

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I Wish I Was One of Those Women Who Just Knows She Wants to Have Kids

(67) Comments | Posted 13 December 2011 | (00:00)

I am 32 and in a very happy relationship with the man who I want to be the father of my children. There is only one problem, I don't know if I want the children.

Its a tough dilemma - looking at someone you love and imagining him lifting babies...

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Am I the Only One who Doesn't Need my Partner to be my Best Friend?

(4) Comments | Posted 19 September 2011 | (12:57)

When I was thirteen years old I asked my uncle who his best friend was.

'It's your aunty.' He replied. 'Obviously!'

Obviously? Was that really obvious? To me it was the least obvious thing I had ever heard. How on earth could your wife be your best friend? He...

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Women Like Me are not Like Women Like You, Does That Have to Make us Enemies?

(29) Comments | Posted 11 August 2011 | (01:00)

I was recently subject to a bit of criticism over some of the documentaries I have made. I won't name the journalist as she got quite a battering on Twitter and I think that's quite enough. But sometimes things get said that take things further than a bad review, and...

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Is There Such a Thing As Luck, Or Is It Just A State Of Mind?

(15) Comments | Posted 10 August 2011 | (17:16)

I have been thinking a lot about luck lately. And after the past few days that saw the streets of our country ransacked by vicious, fire cracking, looting scumbags I have been thinking about it all the more. Yesterday, I got myself so wound up by obsessing over the riot...

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