by thevagenda
I have a rabid crush on this dude. It’s kind of like how, when I was ten, I ruined all the liner notes on my mum’s Beatles album by drawing biro hearts around the young Paul McCartney’s head. Same vibe.
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Is it just me (yes, I did just open an article with “is it just me?”), or does the Kooples’ ad campaign make you want to vom? I can’t believe it would just be me. The androgynous French clothing brand, so they say, chooses ‘real life couples’ to model their chic fashion line, […]
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We are really happy to have taken part in the Marie Claire South Africa cover challenge. Above is the cover we chose- featuring the awesome Shingai Shoniwa. In our proposal, we were clear that we wanted more black women represented in fashion mags, more investigative journalism, and more debate and commentary. Looks […]
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For twelve years, I was pretty much a little boy. Then suddenly, I had breasts – and immediately, I was expected to lock them up in a bra (pretty much a token nod toward social acceptance, considering that they weren’t exactly falling over my shoulder as I ran, and still aren’t.)BAM – suddenly my vagina […]
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Ever since my little sister got caught with a fag in her mouth on the playing field during her first week at secondary school, I have relied on her to make all the mistakes that young teens are supposed to make, so that when I write my autobiography I can steal her anecdotes and […]
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Your weekly round up of stuff that actually happened this week: 1.) Ashley Judd launched an erudite attack on the media’s overwhelming body focused mysogny. Choice quote: “The assault on our body image, the hypersexualization of girls and women and subsequent degradation of our sexuality as we walk through the decades, and the general incessant […]
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So, Louise Court recently gave Cosmo readers some career tips re: breaking into the magazine industry. We thought of some of our own. 1.) Prepare yourself to work for free for a really, really long time. Just accept that if you want to become a mag hag, chances are you ain’t getting paid […]
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I was reading a book called The Rules. I was reading it because it looked awful and I was hoping to get an article out of it. There turned out to be far too much material for one article, or even seven, so I decided to pick out the thing I found most objectionable about […]
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Today I was simultaneously flicking through Reveal magazine and burning my fingertips with hot wax, in an effort to engender the embodiment of masochism. I had seen last month’s edition over the shoulder of an unsuspecting fellow commuter – ‘Is your daily coffee making you fat?’ it announced as its headline – and I knew […]
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Just in case you thought a woman wearing a peach dress with no sleeves on telly was even too pointless a news story for the Daily Fail these days, The Evening Standard has come to spit on your shoes, give you a kick, and remind you the patriarchy is still in full swing. Yesterday, foolishly turning to […]
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