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Limor “Ladyada” Fried was the first female engineer to grace the cover of Wired in March 2011 I’ve been working as an engineer for a year and a half now – since I graduated – and I love it. I’m lucky enough to work for a great company with a relatively high proportion of intelligent, […]
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’There’s nothing sexier than emergency contraception’ Ah the morning after pill, the emergency contraception that’s a pain to get, a joy to have. It’s the last resort of contraceptives and the word ‘emergency’ is apt; there’s nothing fun or easy about emergencies. The morning after pill’s a tricky one to write about – the experience […]
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My daughter, D turns 5 next month. We’re knee-deep into that wonderful stage of body parts/functions being hilarious, and questions about how she came to be. We’ve got the bare bones sorted, babies are made by a ‘special cuddle’ involving seeds and eggs (makes me feel a little like Mr Bloom’s allotment but nevermind), she […]
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Now, brace yourselves, because this article is going to be about Stuff On The Internet That’s Not Funny. “What are you saying?” I hear you cry. “Everything on the internet is charming and hilarious! Only last week my nextdoor neighbour sent me an adorable picture of a slow loris offering a banana […]
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Puberty is a time of firsts. First bra, first period, and first magazines. I was initiated into the world of women’s media by such stellar titles as Sugar, Mizz, Bliss and Seventeen. They came with free lip-gloss that smelled of cherry and free advice that whiffed of bullshit. A particular article that sticks in my […]
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Chris Brown’s particular brand of dazzling awfulness just keeps on giving, like a deep, dirty, pore clawing spot. You know that in order to heal and be healthy you need to leave it alone and maybe throw some acid at it, but some grim, loathsome impulse within you makes you squeeze and squeeze and squeeze. […]
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When I moved to the country of blondes, I didn’t realise that I wasn’t one of them. As a child, you don’t know that you are what you see in the mirror – you simply think you look like the kids around you. So when I arrived in the Netherlands, I was sure […]
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Glamour magazine – sorry, GLAMOUR magazine, the only publication which insists on writing its own title in an appropriately offensive screech – has really got my goat this month. Maybe it’s the positioning on its front cover, which cosies up a lower-case quotation stating that ‘The Sandy Hook shooter killed our mum’ with […]
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I’ve been modelling for twelve years now, and I’m getting reflective in my old age (27). I’m starting to break through this concept of modelling as “something I’m so exceptionally fortunate to have done that I can’t possibly question it, as it might jinx a job that so many dream of doing.” But […]
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Because it is for us! [click to enlarge] Vagenda reader Lucy writes: ‘I was brought up in a Christian family and would have been less surprised if something like this had been given to me in church, but it was actually given to me at the GP, when I went for my tetanus booster at […]
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via http://cosmarxpolitan.tumblr.com/ GO THERE, NOW (thanks to Caroline for the link)
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