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1. It’s nagging at you How many NHS letters have you had by now, woman?! If you’re anything like me (from my 25th birthday onwards I managed to deliberately ignore the four letters in rapid succession), then it’s time to suck it up and book. Don’t try to tell me it hasn’t been playing on […]
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*UTTER SPOILER ALERT* In the small town of Broadchurch lies a deep, dark secret. And no, it’s not that everyone looks way too middle class to be plumbers. Don’t be distracted by the artsy silhouette shots fellow feminists! Whilst Broadchurch may present progressive female characters, they all, much like Colman’s West Country accent, eventually disappear. […]
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‘Nice knowing you, enjoy your degree (NOW MAKE ME A SANDWICH, BITCH! LOL jk).’ Looking back on a yearbook makes you realise: school was a tough’un, wasn’t it? When I was eight, after several rather unsavoury incidents ie me generally being a dick, my parents decided to relieve the school and plonk me into […]
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[Ed. - We're really excited to be running this guest post from renowned fashion journalist Hadley Freeman] There are some great anecdotes in Amanda Mackenzie Stuart’s lovely new biography of Diana Vreeland, Empress of Fashion, that pretty sum up the difficulties in reconciling fashion and feminism. In 1969, when Vreeland was editor […]
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Anyone with half a brain who’s ever seen Mel Gibson’s Signs would never fuck in a cornfield Sex. It’s a fairly simple transaction whereby two people arrange their various orifices and organs to their mutual satisfaction. Move along not much to see here, right? I mean, we all worked out that there were […]
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You may have noticed that the admonishments to ‘get that bikini body’ have come especially early this year. Maybe you noticed it when you walked past the Women’s Lifestyle rack at WH Smith and felt that familiar sense of Apocalypse-like foreboding. Maybe you noticed it from that anxious feeling deep in the […]
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Want to know a secret? Six months ago, in hospital, a day after the fairly straightforward birth of my second child, I pissed myself. Copiously. Publicly. In a corridor in the maternity ward, with lots of newly-enlarged families around me. I don’t know how many people noticed, but I felt humiliated and tearful. I […]
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Everyone’s doing it, from the delightful and ironically titled ‘Femail’ to that oh-so-classy whale meme on Instagram. Yes, ladies, everyone is getting involved with Kim Kardashian (KimK, Kimye, or simply KK for those in the inner circle) – or more, specifically, ‘fat-shaming’ her burgeoning womb, because, like, a convex stomach when there’s a miniature […]
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When I was 13, all I wanted in the world was a boyfriend and a top from Tammy that said ‘I It was around this time that whilst at a school friend’s birthday sleepover, high on Dorito dip and the daring of watching an 18 rated film, I wondered past a bookshelf that contained […]
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My sister and I used to play Blind Date as children. And yes, I know, before you point it out just how weird that sounds. To us it was just part of emulating the things we saw on TV on a Saturday night – our favourite being “Gladiators”, wilfully disregarding the advice to […]
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