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Are Paid Subscriptions The Future Of Social Media? The New Members-Only App ...
Maggie Zhou
11 Feb 2022
News
When You Are Constantly Being Lied To, How Can You Hold Onto Your Reality?
Vicky Spratt
10 Feb 2022
Health News
This Good News About Abortion In England Is A Game Changer
Vicky Spratt
2 Feb 2022
Coronavirus
My Fiancé Died Alone From Cancer While I Obeyed Lockdown Rules
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lotte Bowser (@lottebowser) On 20th May 2020 – a sunny, late spring lockdown afternoon – the leader of our
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Lotte Bowser
Health News
Government Confirms UK Healthcare Is Sexist. Here Are The Key Fin...
These days, it’s hard to keep up with the news. It feels like there hasn’t been a ‘quiet’ week since around 2015, before the EU referendum,
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Vicky Spratt
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
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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
Health News
Work Stress Made Me Self-Harm: The Grim State Of UK Midwifery
Leah* is a 27-year-old midwife with six years’ experience. But the stress of the job has forced her to take a step back and she is now studying part-time
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Ellie Broughton
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
Mind
Sexual Assault & Memory: Upending Common Narratives In Rape Culture
“All I really remember is retching in the street afterwards,” says Lee*, 29. “And being absolutely terrified that he was going to pull me
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Marisa Bate
Health News
I Was Double Dosed On The Morning After Pill Because Of My Weight
When 26-year-old curve model Lucy Bennett broke a pandemic-imposed dry spell in her sex life, she was pretty delighted. But any initial excitement turned t
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Rose Stokes
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
Wellness
Please Don’t Remember Me — Sincerely, A Trans Woman
Content warning: This article discusses transphobia, suicide, self-harm and sexual assault in a way that could be distressing to some readers. Internationa
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Amity Mara
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
Unbothered
Two Men Convicted For The 1965 Assassination Of Malcolm X Have Be...
Nearly 60 years after the shocking assassination of civil rights leader Malcolm X, a new development in the investigation into his murder has led to the e
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Ineye Komonibo
LGBTQ+
I Made A BBC Doc About Trans Teens. The Company’s Transphob...
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Charlie Craggs (@charlie_craggs) I’m Charlie Craggs, the author of To My Trans Sisters – an anthology of e
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Charlie Craggs
News
Why Ubers Are Harder To Get & What This Means For Women’s S...
Ubers are harder to book than ever thanks to a lack of drivers, fuel shortage and increasing demand. And it’s making young women in the UK feel unsafe. &
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
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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
Work & Money
The Pros & Cons Of A Ban On Checking Emails Out Of Work Hours
Banning workers from checking their emails outside of office hours can be harmful to their mental health, a recent study has claimed. The report, conducted
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Jessica Morgan
News
The Lasting Trauma Of Being Raped In My First Term At University
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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Anonymous
News
Women Report Being “Spiked With Needles” In UK Nightc...
Several police forces across the UK are investigating reports that women are being “spiked with injections” in clubs. Cities including Nottingh
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Matilda Martin
LGBTQ+
‘I Don’t Want To See An Intersex Person Regret Their Body A...
When Cody Smith answers my phone call, they are palpably excited. Three years ago, they worked on the Australian Human Rights Commission report on intersex
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Maggie Zhou
Wellness
These Women Are Closing The Breast Cancer Awareness Gap In Cultur...
Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in the UK, Australia and America. Approximately eight out of ten breast cancer cases occur in women over 50
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Alicia Vrajlal
News
Sharking: The Grim Practice Where Older Students Prey On Freshers
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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Cerys Turner
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
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