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How Sexual Assault Survivors Feel Watching Rape Scenes On TV
Amelia Abraham
4 Sep 2017
World News
This Is What It's Like For Girls Growing Up In Gaza
Amelia Abraham
2 Aug 2017
Wellness
Hanging With The Subjects Of Laurence Philomene's Photo Series
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Amelia Abraham
3 Jun 2017
Wellness
What It's Like Living With Chronic Pain
When Lara started experiencing pain in her stomach and chest at the age of 15, she couldn’t understand why, and nor could the doctors at first. She was u
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Amelia Abraham
Living
Meet The Woman Who Gets Women Off The Streets
When Josephine Knowles moved to London in the early ‘90s as a teenager, she fell into a profession she didn’t expect – helping sex workers, prostitut
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Amelia Abraham
Entertainment
How These Teenage Girls Changed Over 3 Years
Remember when you’re a teenager and you talk about the future all the time, even though your vision of it only extends as far as who you’re going to sn
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Amelia Abraham
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Ariel Levy On The Illusion Of 'Having It All'
Ariel Levy is a journalist’s journalist. Which is to say, she’s idolised by young women writers everywhere. Rising through the ranks of New York Magazi
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Amelia Abraham
Health Trends
Buying & Selling Babies: The Problems With Surrogacy
Across the globe, surrogacy is on the rise. As women wait longer to have children, as infertility affects more and more people, and as gay couples look to
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Amelia Abraham
News
Why The Taliban Sent Me Death Threats
When Maria Toorpakai first picked up a squash racket, she was around 12 years old. She’d been dressing as a boy for a while – partly because it felt na
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Amelia Abraham
News
The Countries Where Women Still Can't Consent
Today is International Women’s Day, a global celebration of women’s achievements, as well as a call to arms for the improvement of women’s rights eve
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Amelia Abraham
Wellness
Getting Your Body Back: Sex After Sexual Assault
Warning: The following includes survivors' accounts of sexual assault, which some readers may find distressing. Andrea* was 20 when she was raped by a
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Amelia Abraham
Entertainment
This Is What Good Feminist Politics Look Like In 2017
Catherine Mayer is a doer and a thinker; when she has an idea she goes for it immediately. Rising up the ranks of The Economist, she’s worked as an edito
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Amelia Abraham
Wellness
Emergency Contraception: How We're Taking It & How We
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Amelia Abraham
Fashion
How Should The Fashion World Treat Trans People?
Hari Nef, Andreja Pejić, Valentina Sampaio – today, a handful of openly transgender supermodels walk the catwalks of international fashion weeks, snag
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Amelia Abraham
Entertainment
Raves, Backpacking & Britpop – Whatever Happened To Generation X?
In 1991, the brilliant Canadian author Douglas Coupland published the novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, in which a group of navel-gazin
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Amelia Abraham
World News
These Breast Cancer Drugs Could Save Lives – But The NHS Can't Af...
Breast cancer is one of the most prolific killers in the UK and the most common type of cancer, affecting one in eight women and one in around 800 men in t
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Amelia Abraham
Mind
London Is In The Grip Of An LGBT Mental Health Epidemic
Last year, a gay journalist and playwright called Matthew Todd published a book entitled Straight Jacket: How To Be Gay and Happy. As you can probably gues
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Amelia Abraham
Diet & Nutrition
“Dry Jan”, Week 5: What Happens Now?
Last week: “Dry Jan”, Week 4: Waiting For A Miracle My friends couldn’t break me (although a free bar might have). I survived clubs and p
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Amelia Abraham
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World News
How Much Longer Can Theresa May Ignore These Protesters?
If you dance with the devil, you will get burned. Or at least, that's the message Prime Minister Theresa May seemed to be on the receiving end of last
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Amelia Abraham
Diet & Nutrition
“Dry Jan”, Week 4: Waiting For A Miracle
Last week: “Dry Jan”, Week 3: I See Drunk People 25 days. I’ve been sober for 25 days. If you'd asked me to imagine myself 25 days s
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Amelia Abraham
Diet & Nutrition
“Dry Jan”, Week 3: I See Drunk People
Last week: “Dry Jan”, Week 2: Report From The Front Lines Of Dry January When we drink alcohol, it passes down our throats, into the stomach an
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Amelia Abraham
Books & Art
Author Emily Witt On The Future Of Sex
Webcamming, polyamory, internet dating, porn… American journalist Emily Witt traverses the full spectrum of modern sexual behaviour in her debut book
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Amelia Abraham
Diet & Nutrition
“Dry Jan”, Week 2: Report From The Front Lines Of Dry...
Our “Dry January” diarist charts how the first 10 days sober have left her feeling, and asks when kicking off the year booze-free became so pop
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Amelia Abraham
Diet & Nutrition
“Dry Jan”, Week 1: Breaking Up With Booze
Our “Dry January” diarist explains her relationship with alcohol, questions what we consider “normal” drinking, and why she wants t
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Amelia Abraham
Homepage
Coming Out As Gay In Your 20s, 30s & 40s
No two gay people follow the same “coming out” trajectory; some are forced out of the proverbial “closet”, others are only ready wh
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Amelia Abraham
Work & Money
How I #MadeIt: Catherine Wood
The art world is an intimidating place and the idea of a curator even more so. Someone who has a near-encyclopaedic knowledge of their field, an ability to
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Amelia Abraham
Books & Art
Photographing Black, Female, HIV Positive Power
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Amelia Abraham
Sex
What It’s Like To Do Sex Work in Amsterdam
Amsterdam’s sex industry can be divisive; for tourists, the flagrancy with which the city’s brothels line the streets give the place a sense of
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Amelia Abraham
Celebrity Style
How I #MadeIt: Frances Corner OBE
Some people are so high-functioning you can only assume they have a magic watch. Frances Corner is one of those people; she is the Head of London College o
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Amelia Abraham
World News
How Child Refugees Get Into UK Schools
Feven and Danait were both 16 when they arrived in the UK from Eritrea in north-east Africa. They travelled unaccompanied, on foot, in the backs of lorries
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Amelia Abraham
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