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Vicky Spratt
Living
Why Is Everyone Reading The Stoics?
Vicky Spratt
9 Jan 2022
Alcohol & Culture
Young Women Open Up About Their Experience Of Alcoholics Anonymous
Vicky Spratt
8 Jan 2022
Alcohol & Culture
Inside The Secretive, All-Women University Drinking Societies
Vicky Spratt
7 Jan 2022
Health News
Finally We Know How COVID Vaccines Impacted Periods
Since the start of the pandemic there has been much speculation about how COVID-19 impacts menstruation. From the stress of the lockdowns to catching the v
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Vicky Spratt
Alcohol & Culture
The Truth About Drink Spiking At Universities
Introducing Fancy Another? – a weeklong series on what young women’s drinking culture in the UK looks like in 2022, with zero percent judgement.
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Vicky Spratt
Mind
2021: A Year In Mental Health Through The Eyes Of Therapists
2021 has been challenging, to say the least. The year kicked off in lockdown, still in a global pandemic with the vaccine rollout yet to begin. The news wa
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Vicky Spratt
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Mind
How To Be Hopeful When It Feels Like The World Is Falling Apart
How long have we been in a pandemic now? Is this year one or two? I’d like to take the blue pill, please, and go back to sleep. Everything I look at –
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Vicky Spratt
Health News
Think Pandemic Stress Affected Your Period? Scientists Have Some ...
“My periods are all over the place!” “Me too!” “Mine are heavier than usual!” “Mine hurt so much more.”
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Vicky Spratt
Relationships
The Myth Of The “Crazy” Ex
“There is no such thing as a crazy ex,” my colleague Jess said loudly from the other side of our shared desk. “And that’s a hill I will
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Vicky Spratt
News
A Young Woman Refugee On What It’s Actually Like To Cross T...
It was after midnight on Christmas Day 2018. Zainab Sadat Hossaini, who was then just 17 years old, stood on a freezing cold beach, likely near the village
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Vicky Spratt
Health News
The Great Morning After Pill Rip-Off
The high street giant Boots faces a backlash after putting emergency contraception (or the morning after pill) on offer for Black Friday. Instead of chargi
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Vicky Spratt
Global News
How Egg Freezing & IVF Clinics Are Putting Women At Risk
There is increasing concern among the medical community that the high doses of hormones involved in fertility treatments – whether that is for IVF or egg
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Vicky Spratt
Work & Money
Pregnant Women Are Being Denied Mortgages Due To Change In Earnings
Pregnant women and new mothers who apply for mortgages with some of the UK’s biggest lenders are being declined because taking time out from work will ca
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Vicky Spratt
Health News
The Shameful Reason Young Women Are Being Forced To Pay For The Pill
NHS contraception waiting times are driving women to buy oral hormonal contraception privately when they could be accessing it for free via the NHS where t
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Vicky Spratt
Global News
How The Pandemic Has Exacerbated The Threat Posed By Incels
In the wake of the Plymouth shootings in August 2021, experts from the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (
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Vicky Spratt
Living
Cities Are Sexist & Aren’t Designed To Keep Women Safe. Her...
Could urban planning help keep women safe? Are cities sexist? Unless you are a housing nerd like me, these are probably not questions that you’ve ever se
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Vicky Spratt
Mind
I Feel Increasingly Weird About My Face
I contain multitudes. Or rather, my iPhone camera roll does. If I click on the album simply labelled ‘selfies‘ which the pocket computer I carr
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Vicky Spratt
Relationships
What Is The Point Of Marriage Now, Anyway?
There cannot be a better known quote about heteronormative relationships between men and women in Britain than Jane Austen’s infamous opening to Pride an
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Vicky Spratt
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News
Toxic Environments, Nonexistent Support & Factories Of Trauma: It...
All this week on Refinery29 we are looking at the ongoing problem of sexual assault at UK universities and giving a platform to the students calling for ch
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Vicky Spratt
News
Women Aren’t “Forgetting” To Have Children. The...
Here I am. A 33-year-old woman with two degrees and something resembling “a career”, sitting at my laptop and trying to write this article for
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Vicky Spratt
News
It’s Easy For Young Women To Not Want To Live In The UK Rig...
Did you follow the government’s annual get-together at Conservative Party Conference? No? Let me fill you in. Boris Johnson convened his mostly male cabi
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Vicky Spratt
News
“The System Is Rotten To The Core”: What Will It Take...
It is haunting. We now know, because of details from her murderer’s sentencing hearing, that the abduction which led to Sarah Everard’s death happened
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Vicky Spratt
Global News
Sabina Nessa’s Death Shows Nothing Has Changed
Twenty-eight-year-old teacher Sabina Nessa was found dead near the OneSpace community centre in Cator Park in Kidbrooke, southeast London last Saturday aft
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Vicky Spratt
News
I Thought I Had Miscarried & I Was In Handcuffs: Why We Need To S...
When she was just 23, Susie’s* life changed. She stood in court and was told that she was being sent to prison for six months. “I was in shock,” says
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Vicky Spratt
Global News
Housing Is Less Affordable Than Ever For Young Women
In 2019 the Women’s Budget Group found that just as there is a gender pay gap in England, women also face a gender housing gap. After conducting national
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Vicky Spratt
Health News
Angry About Texas? Abortion Is More Restricted In Britain Than Yo...
In March 2020, as the reality of the coronavirus pandemic set in both for politicians and the population as a whole, the government changed its mind. As po
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Vicky Spratt
Mind
Is Too Much Daydreaming Bad For You?
It’s late at night and there is a balmy September heatwave. Second chance summer, I’m calling it. After 18 months of living alone, staring at the same
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Vicky Spratt
Health News
Exclusive: Private At-Home HPV Testing Is A “Worrying”...
Private companies are selling HPV testing kits and vaccines online in what experts are calling a “worrying” emerging trend in the private secto
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Vicky Spratt
News
What Is The Blackpill Movement, The Dangerous Belief System That ...
On 12th August a 22-year-old man named Jake Davison killed his 51-year-old mother, Maxine Davison. He then left his house with a gun. Just after 6pm,
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Vicky Spratt
Living
I’m Not Sure I’m The Same Person I Was Before The Pan...
I saw the light – hovering above my balcony late one night last November – and now I can’t unsee it. It was the first autumn lockdown. The one that p
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Vicky Spratt
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