Sarah Hardcastle

Professional Weirdo
Freelance Writer / Creative Director
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[Sarah Hardcastle @EatSleepBlog]

@aishamadeit https://t.co/5qQ86Uxgzk she's an animator but might suit what you're looking for

[Sophia Amoruso 3.0 @sophiaamoruso]

It happened to me first — headlines portraying me as a “toxic leader” when I had to make the same, often unpopular, decisions that my male peers did without critique.

For them, it’s called Founder Mode, and it’s celebrated (a proper noun! With its own merch! And trademarks being filed as I write this!).

For women, it’s called “toxic”.

After my “fall” in 2016, I watched an incredible cohort of female founders come up behind me.

I thought there was something fundamentally wrong with me and that they had it all figured out.

They were my friends, but it was hard to watch them win. I secretly muted their Instagram accounts. Why was I the only piece of shit female founder? What did they possess that I didn’t? Was it my upbringing? Maybe the media was right.

These women took big swings, raised huge rounds, and were held up as examples for countless other women who for the first time saw that their aspirations might actually be within reach.

And then, one by one, they were canceled.

Our responsibility wasn’t just to pave the way for women, but to do it perfectly — and when we weren’t examples of whatever warped mutation the word Girlboss (which is now immortalized in the Merriam-Webster dictionary) had come to symbolize, we were “toxic.”

No one expects men to build a utopian workplace that cures institutional biases, but we were expected to do just that.

This is all too complex for an X post, and I’m not making excuses for anyone.

Today, posts like this are out of character for me because, like them (as the non self-appointed consigliere for scorned Girlbosses, I know), we’ve all been told to keep gender out of the conversation.

The media’s glee surrounding the “fall of the Girlboss” has committed, at scale, more harm than any pretty, young, white (let’s call it what it is), often unrelateable female founder could ever do.

The phenomenon reminded a generation of women what we’d been told for eons: be nice and stay in your lane, or else.

[eleanor @elearor]

i hope all the oasis fans enjoy swapping friendship bracelets and dressing as their favourite era of gallagher brother x

[Sarah Hardcastle @EatSleepBlog]

is there a more boomer phrase than 'anti-virus protection' ?

[Sarah Hardcastle @EatSleepBlog]

@lucyprebblish Girls5eva !

[Saatchi & Saatchi @saatchiuk]

🚨Final call for entries to our 2024 New Creators’ Showcase 🚨

If you’re a motion creator, don’t miss out on the opportunity to broadcast your work at Cannes Festival. Head to the link below for details and submission instructions 🎬
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[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Don't let these Tories con you even more with their Voter ID...

Please make sure, if you don't have Voter ID which they deem acceptable, that you register for a VOTER AUTHORITY CERTIFICATE online by 5pm TODAY

Link here

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Please RT 🙏🏼❤️ #StopTheTories

[Sarah Hardcastle @EatSleepBlog]

Seeing as every single person who posts about AI also writes 'CAN YOU BELIEVE THESE IMAGES ARE NOT REAL!!!' I think they'll be pretty easy to distinguish.

[Sarah Hardcastle @EatSleepBlog]

@ChappellTracker Same !!! I can't scroll past quick enough

[Sarah Hardcastle @EatSleepBlog]

@VictoriaFutures In Ireland there's a boom in 'rain tourism' as people from hot countries go in search of exotic weather

[Michael Volpe OBE @NoisyMV]

Mrs Wallace's Saturday

[Sarah Hardcastle @EatSleepBlog]

It's still January ????!!!

[Sarah Hardcastle @EatSleepBlog]

@lucyrosemusic @guardian Thank you so much for sharing this, and I'm so sorry you had to suffer like that. I had a post partum injury with my joints and it was so frustrating how little information there is for these conditions.

[Sarah Hardcastle @EatSleepBlog]

Claudia slamming that coffin shut on Diane needs to be TV moment of the year

[Sarah Hardcastle @EatSleepBlog]

@awlilnatty @havaslondon 🔥 congrats !!

[Sian Harries @sianharries_]

Hey, after tomorrow it starts getting lighter every day ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Sarah Hardcastle @EatSleepBlog]

my job is cleaning and my hobby is email

[Sarah Hardcastle @EatSleepBlog]

@awlilnatty the way I went straight for the cocktails....

[Sarah Hardcastle @EatSleepBlog]

@danbarker I believe the EU just passed a law to make this illegal: https://t.co/3royBYvYGJ

[Sarah Hardcastle @EatSleepBlog]

I have been to worryingly few retirement parties