Having once been a waitress myself for a whole three hours before being fired for dropping plates and accidentally pouring wine on a customer who shouted at me, I am usually sympathetic and polite to restaurant staff. I get it, I know what it’s like, and I don’t want to be an arsehole. But there’s one […]

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There is a sight that most of us see daily – one that many delight in – which elicits a feeling of abject fear and dread in me. And that sight is a child with its mother and father. Now, don’t get me wrong: I have nothing against children. In fact, those little tykes amuse me […]

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I have been interested in football pretty much ever since I became conscious of its existence. My family are huge Arsenal fans and my younger brother, sister and I have always been treated completely equally by our parents. I’ve never felt that there was any expectation that I wouldn’t love football due to my gender […]

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As your Friday treat, and ahead of a Vagenda talk at the Hay Festival this Sunday, we thought we’d share an extract from the Vagenda book with you. And hey, if you like it then you can make our bloody weekend and buy it. Happy weekend! THE TOP TEN MOST FRUSTRATING FASHION FAUX PAS, AS […]

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Recently, I made the huge, scary and very exciting decision to apply for a new job. After spotting the ad on twitter a few times and scrolling past it, I decided one day that enough was enough and I wanted to go for it. And not only because I lost the will to look at […]

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So, the other day I went to meet my best friend for a chilled glass of white wine and a weight-related smackdown. She’d just had a baby; I’d just had a personality transplant to become one of the reporters for New magazine. In other words, there was a lot to celebrate. As we clinked our […]

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Last week The Guardian published ‘10 things I’ll miss about being a student’. Don’t bother reading it unless you think you’ll benefit from a ten point list of University clichés (onesies/student loans/shitty flat), but it did make me compile a list of ten things which, in the year of my graduation, I REALLY, REALLY won’t […]

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I think any student currently taking up residence in their university library as deadlines and exams roll around, will agree that a little ‘me-time’ has become a necessity. For me, writing my dissertation on contemporary erotic romance literature has increased this need considerably. But unfortunately, sitting in the library day after day, reading sex scene […]

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This is an actual cake that exists. If you’re a woman, aged between, let’s say 18 and 45, living in the UK, with the capacity to get pregnant or with female friends or family members with the same capacity, there’s every chance you’ve recently been involved in some way with the most irritatingly twee and […]

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I am angry. I am angry that this week, I felt physically intimidated – because I am a woman. It was a normal day, certainly nothing out of the ordinary, and on paper a seemingly simple occurrence. Perhaps you may even think I am overreacting. Yet I felt scared, frustrated with myself and, frankly, pissed […]

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 It started in my mother’s bathroom. I was sixteen, it was summer, and I was stood in front of the mirror with my sunburnt hooter staring me in the face. ‘Just try a bit,’ Mum had said, ‘It’ll make it look better.’ I did try a bit. And then a bit more. I went a […]

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Inspired by Esquire’s legendary competition, of which Scarlett Johansson was the winner, The Vagenda sends its intrepid Hollywood correspondent LA DAME to interview our SEXIEST MAN ALIVE  THE WORKOUT Jonah Hill is drinking a green juice. He makes a heart shape with his lips and welcomes the long straw. I watch, and when he looks […]

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