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In the weeks leading up to election day, during the peacock dance that is the pre-election period, it feels as though politicians are forever attempting to make their party appealing to women, highlighting how in touch they are with what they tend to call ‘women’s issues’. As somebody female who has always been highly political, […]
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I was standing in the cereal aisle when I decided I probably shouldn’t have children. I had, up until that moment, always assumed I wanted kids. I mothered my dollies as a child. In my teens, I decided abortion was not an option I’d ever favour. By my early twenties, I was oddly disappointed whenever […]
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Recently, the Tesco security man felt an urge to stop and ask me, mid shop, ‘Why do you have such big arms for a lady?’ He actually did the universally accepted mime for ‘henchness’ as he asked me (which could also be interpreted as a gorilla mime, for extra offence). His tone was genuinely perplexed, but […]
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by thevagenda
Images via #ThisDoesntMeanYes You’d think that by the 21st century we’d have grasped the concept of sexual consent. After all, this is the age of the internet, the era of the cronut, the decade that conceived the fourth wave of Feminism, Tinder and the iPhone 6. So you’d think that we’d have got our heads around the idea […]
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by thevagenda
On 24th April 2013 Rana Plaza, an eight storey garment factory in Bangladesh making clothes for several global high street brands, collapsed killing 1,134 people, mostly young women, in a matter of minutes. Fashion Revolution Day (#FashRev) on Friday 24th April 2015, marks two years since this happened and is also encouraging us all to use social […]
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by thevagenda
People congratulate me when I tell them my story. They are pleased for me. Relieved for me. They feel like I won. And of course, I did. I managed to get through the shit that comes with being forced into a marriage. I managed to get over the fact that they- my entire family who […]
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by thevagenda
Image via Dave the Chimp It’s hard to muster enthusiasm to vote in an election that sees the race, once again, being fought by three middle-class white men of varyingly privileged backgrounds. In itself, this is not necessarily a bad thing, providing we can trust the aforementioned three to represent all of us, including […]
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by thevagenda
Here’s why it’s important… When you write about women’s issues, you get used to anticipating the resultant wilful misinterpretation, angry, shouty comments and creepy ‘humour’ from very, very cross people. And I can’t claim I wasn’t warned that some people would deliberately get the wrong end of the stick when, along with a group of […]
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