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Last night my boyfriend did me a home spa. I love a good home spa. It basically involves him lighting candles in the bathroom and running a bubble bath while I go at myself with a body brush. And before you say, ‘that’s bullshit, Vagenda lady. You should be fighting the patriarchal assumption that […]
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Hilary Mantel is a brilliant writer. Her writing is so good that she’s just won the Booker prize for the second time, something that caused my mother as much pride as if it had been one of her own children. Her winning books are Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, both about the […]
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What’s my blonde ambition? For people to shut up about my sodding hair, for starters. Saw a Q&A with Gwynnie Paltrow in Stylist last week. She’s been plugging her new cook book/manifesto for food fascists and got to talking about life and stuff, as one is want to do when one is a […]
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Your fou-fou. Your lady garden. Your love nest. Your abyss. You may call it these things. I call mine my vagina, because that’s what it is. And they’re great – infinitely puzzling, pleasure-giving, mysterious, varied. But they can also be extremely problematic. The ladies in porn seem to be able to take hours […]
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‘Sir, this Dworkin woman. She’s not exactly the biggest barrel of laughs, is she?’ ‘No, Phil, she is not. This is a speech about rape [Dworkin’s speech ‘I Want A 24-Hour Truce In Which There Is No Rape]. One-liners might have detracted slightly from the message.’ ‘No, I get that, but, like, she’s a […]
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And thus, with a crushing sense of inevitability, we turn to this week’s Grazia. Although Grazia is yet to be renamed ‘Cara Delevigne Sycophantry Monthly’, it’s only a matter of time. However, I’m less interested in that (please, give the girl a holiday, she’s everywhere) than I am in Grazia’s ‘Baby on […]
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Morning, folks. Just in case you woke up this morning feeling unexpectedly chipper, allow me to immediately ruin it by drawing your attention to this festering pile of rape apologist bullshit from yesterday’s Telegraph. In it, someone called Jack Rivlin, editor of something called The Tab (which after a quick glance looks like […]
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Today, we innocently logged into our Vagenda email account to find the following turd steaming away inside of it. We thought it would only be fair to share it with the world. Hi Hope you are well. I recently read your article regarding The Sun newspapers decision to run two NHS […]
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The year is 1993. The place: a Catholic girls’ school in Ireland. The clothes are at best dodgy – sportswear and double (nay, triple) denim abound. There’s me, attired in bottle-green gym knickers and the arse-numblingly short regulation PE skirt, desperate to avoid sport at any cost. It’s freezing – we’re in Ireland for God’s sake. […]
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