In a lengthy interview published on The Cut this week, writer/comedian/provocateur Lena Dunham spoke about her struggles with physical pain from both a connective-tissue disease and fibromyalgia,...
In Poland’s largest ever march of National Independence, more than 200,000 people took to the streets to commemorate 100 years since Poland gained independence after 123 years of partition by...
This time last week, BBC TV was full of celebrities, news readers, pop stars and actors performing feats and making general fools of themselves to raise money for Children in Need, a charity telethon...
As I hear the electric shaver graze against the back of my head while sitting in a hairdresser in West London, I watch as the blonde pieces of what used to be part of me fall onto the floor. Shit....
We are told that things are different now. We are told that times have changed. That maybe back in the 1960s, the criminal justice system was unfair on victims of sexual violence but that, around the...
Writer, poet, performer, and author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s published work—including the memoir Dirty River and poetry collections Bodymap, Love Cake, and Consensual Genocide—has...
Mass shootings are becoming a chilling and common subject in the American news. More chilling still is the realization that the number of widely reported mass shootings pales in comparison to the...
When Dominic Raab took up his position as Brexit Secretary, following David Davis’s sulky resignation, I thought he couldn’t possibly do a worse job than his predecessor who seemed to have...
We live in a world where sexual violence is trivialised, and even though #MeToo and similar campaigns are being heard more than ever before, rape and sexual abuse are still laughed at far too often....
In an age where the term “feminism” is not only plastered on the digital walls of social media, but also on the literal walls of buildings in terms of street art, the women of today are, (and...
