Rebecca McCormick is a fat, disabled woman living in Yorkshire. She writes zines and Young Adult literature and owns far too many books. She is on Twitter @cheaprhyme
It’s Pride month! It is a time for queer people of all stripes, everyone who comes under the LGBTQ+ umbrella – gay, bi, pan, asexual, trans, trans man, trans woman, non binary, and all the other...
Why does representation in books matter? This is something I have been wondering about for a long time, as I write Young Adult literature, primarily about disabled and queer teenagers, and am trying...
Over half the world’s population, over four billion people will go to the polls in 2024, in elections being held in over forty countries. The United Kingdom and the United States will both have...
X, formerly known as Twitter, has been awash this week with conspiracy theories about Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales. If you haven’t caught up on it, she posted a photo last Sunday,...
Ex reality TV star Josh Duggar was found guilty of both receiving and possessing child sexual abuse materials in a trial that had lasted ten days on Thursday the 9th December. Duggar came to fame as...
Eddie Redmayne recently said that he, a cis man, playing the part of trans woman Lili Elbe in the biopic of her life The Danish Girl, was ‘a mistake’. Well, of course. The casting garnered a lot...
Rolling Stone recently published a list of Top 500 Songs, voted for by over 250 artists, musicians and producers. They first did this in 2004 but more than half of the songs on the updated selection...
While many of us have known that Britney Spears was living under a conservatorship for several years now, I don’t think many of us had realized the extent of it, and the extent of the abuse she has...
A new study from the University of Birmingham has shown that disabled people across the Global South have faced ‘significant discrimination’ during the Covid-19 pandemic, leaving them at greater...
You’d hope that in the middle of a global pandemic, the New Year diet ads could maybe have a year off and we wouldn’t be subjected to the same onslaught about how you need to lose weight, get...
