Off the Cuff

Personal essays about sex, academia, books and mental health. I like to keep it light!

By Ash Haslett Cuff

· Launched 2 years ago

Getting Too High at a Party Where Everyone is Too Cool for Me

I promise I wash my hands after pissing!

Jun 8 • Ash Haslett Cuff

Heartbreak (again), the art of sexting strangers online, Oh! And some flash fiction

I talk a lot about sex, surprise surprise.

Apr 30 • Ash Haslett Cuff

Ash’s Cinema Club VI

Vile Misogynists, Misanthropic Romantics and (the only?) Sexy Québécois Men

Mar 23 • Ash Haslett Cuff

Retrospective musings on my ex boyfriend’s family (can they sue me for this?)

Mar 13, 2025 • Ash Haslett Cuff

Faux Intellectualism and the Bullshit of ‘Girlhood’

Oct 15, 2025 • Ash Haslett Cuff

Come Spring

Mar 31, 2025 • Ash Haslett Cuff

‘I got a kink for when people fucking despise me. I think they’re onto something…’

Jan 28, 2025 • Ash Haslett Cuff

‘writing down these thoughts are the opposite of art’: I am responsible for everything bad that ever happened to anyone ever

Aug 16, 2025 • Ash Haslett Cuff

Ash’s Cinema Club vol. I

Apr 21, 2025 • Ash Haslett Cuff

Politics of Difference: Colonial Interference in Cross Cultural Relations in Post Indenture Fiji

Mar 16 • Ash Haslett Cuff

Character Sketches at the Tiki Bar

Feb 25 • Ash Haslett Cuff

A Belated Love Letter, Casual Sex and Hindsight Twenty F*cking Twenty (it’s not what it cracked up to be)

Feb 13 • Ash Haslett Cuff

Auditions for the Freakshow: Quirkiness, premature musings on a breakup, and why good sex doesn’t make good porn

Dec 30, 2025 • Ash Haslett Cuff

Ash’s Cinema Club V

Dec 12, 2025 • Ash Haslett Cuff

I dry swallowed a pill and it got lodged in my throat (homesickness)

Nov 25, 2025 • Ash Haslett Cuff

Faux Intellectualism and the Bullshit of ‘Girlhood’

Oct 15, 2025 • Ash Haslett Cuff

Ash’s Cinema Club IV

Sep 30, 2025 • Ash Haslett Cuff

Grad school diaries V: I’m not ready for the end but here we are

Sep 15, 2025 • Ash Haslett Cuff