This new column will summarise events that have happened in the last week relevant to women, feminism, and sexuality and link you to related articles. It will also offer a brief analysis on some stories. This column is still finding its feet, so please feel free to give us feedback, as well as any news…
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This new column will summarise events that have happened in the last week relevant to women, feminism, and sexuality and link you to related articles. It will also offer a brief analysis on some stories. Please feel free to give us feedback! You can read last week’s round-up here. This week has a mixture of…
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As a single girl in my mid-twenties, one of my worst nightmares isn’t that I’ll die alone while my thirty-six cats eat my remains, but that I’ll find myself in a life I resent. I’m terrified of being one of those women who get married and have a couple children, and all of a sudden…
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My mother and I spoke about divorce the other day. We spoke about how it can be difficult to believe in true love when the divorce rate is getting higher and higher. Even though my mother has been married for twenty years, and I have only six months under my belt, we were both equally…
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Steve Martin has to be one of my favourite actors. Comical genius-ness aside, there are few men in my mind who can sport the white wizard look and get away with it. Oddly enough, he is one of them (although George Clooney ultimately takes the calamari with his trademark salt and pepper crop and of…
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I’ve been thinking a lot recently about having a heterosexual, feminist relationship. My boyfriend identifies himself as a feminist and I’m quite proud of that. It made me wonder how that might affect the practicalities of our relationship. I do believe that we have a ‘feminist relationship’ despite that we do navigate issues like ‘who…
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I have been living with my housemate, Alice Planetoid, for almost 11 months now. In that time, I would estimate that I have asked her whether her parents are married, on average, once a fortnight, and yet have never managed to commit it to memory. For the purposes of this article, however, I took special…
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