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Whatup ladybros. I know, ‘rebranding feminism’, what the hell? When Elle got in touch with us to ask us to take part in a challenge, alongside some ad agencies, to bring feminism to a larger audience, we were initially a bit skeptical, mainly because of the use of the word ‘brand’. But then we […]
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The quality of my daily internet procrastination time has just been shat on by the discovery of Cosmo Latina, which reaches new pits of unintentional hilarity, extreme patronisation and eye-watering levels of facepalm, even by Cosmo’s scraping-out-the-portaloo-cistern standards. Give it a read and you’ll be wallowing up to your chocho* in racismo and […]
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If you were a fan of clunkers, as I am, you might say that Katy Perry and I have a ‘hot ‘n’ cold’ relationship (sorry). I love her so much – I cried a bit when I saw her film, I had ‘California Gurls’ as my alarm tone until I started to feel […]
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Dear Daily Mail, Thanks ever so much for the helpful article you published last week entitled: ‘Look what giving up drink for a month can do to your face: Mother who enjoyed five glasses of wine a week is transformed after going cold turkey.’ Thanks as well for the one today, called ‘The shocking face […]
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On Saturday, The Guardian’s weekend magazine published a great interview and article on Stephen King. It covered his new book, a sequel to The Shining, which sounds intriguing, and his early struggles to juggle three jobs when he was trying to make it as a writer. He’s outspoken – offering some pretty harsh criticism of […]
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Oh, Camden. Once the happy home of goths, punks, and what Av Lav would have referred to as sk8er bois, over the summer a newer and stranger alternative type has moved into the neighbourhood – The Apples and Pears family. Otherwise known as the patronising, thick as shit, fat stereotype family. This is […]
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I should support real jobs. I should enjoy meeting new people. I shouldn’t be avoiding the checkout guy who tried to chat me up, when I was shopping solely for paracetamol, tissues, nose spray, and cough medicine. (Seriously, dude, choose your moment.) But there’s something that freezes out all my principles, and sends me spinning […]
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Four years ago I stopped eating. Back then, my knowledge of mental illness was so limited that I didn’t realise it could happen to people like me. I thought mentally ill people were “different” and assumed that I had never met one. Of course, that is ridiculous: 1 in 4 people in Britain have […]
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So I don’t know if you guys realised, but ‘Elite Daily’ (‘The Voice of Generation Y’ – I don’t know whether the name of the publication or its strapline makes me vom tiny little pieces of my blackened soul mixed with Wasabi curry more) has published a list of ’100 things every twentysomething needs to […]
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‘You can lie to your relatives at Christmas dinner and tell them everything is peachy on the home front, but you can’t lie to your vagina’ – Olivia Wilde, via Cosmo. It’s been a while, ladybros, but I’m back with some more brain-invading Cosmosis, and luckily for you the October issue of […]
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In the wake of the recent Blurred Lines and Miley Cyrus VMA fiascos that threaten to overwhelm all of us with endless grief at the state of the popular music world, there is a woman who will put back your faith in empowering music that you actually want to listen to. Her name is Janelle […]
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