As a kid, I was brought up in relative poverty on a working class council estate, and part of that upbringing involved experiencing and witnessing profound violence perpetrated by several working...
Category: Relationships
The suffocating blanket of heteronormativity
Look around you. Men and women couple up on TV shows like Love Island for millions of viewers. The latest Hello Fresh ad shows Mum cooking dinner for her husband and two children. You see a friend’s...
Why ‘Heartstopper’ means so much to queer viewers
Netflix’s adaptation of Heartstopper has been confirmed for two more seasons and we–queer people–are thrilled about it. Originally a webcomic written and illustrated by Alice Oseman, the Netflix...
Summer of Hope: Madeleine’s story
After two long years of the global COVID-19 pandemic, so many of us find ourselves tired and lacking energy for even basic tasks. Facing a new year does not fill us with the joy of possibility as it...
‘Angry Little Asian Girl’ laughs at the patriarchy
Angry Little Asian Girl: Moments with My Mother’ is a collection of comics featuring the series’ central character, a grade-school Korean girl named Kim and her mother. Each comic is full of...
A (feminist) love story saved by radical empathy
It’s something each of us might sometimes wonder. How do you change someone’s mind? This unexpected love story is the ultimate lesson. It could easily have been one of those Tinder-dates-from-hell...
Banishing body shame: ‘Ladies, We Need To Talk’
'Ladies, We Need To Talk' (the book) breaks the stigma around everything women are thinking but not saying. Author and presenter Yumi Stynes and health reporter and digital editor Claudine Ryan...
Since I was three years old, I’ve known my mother as “Mara Beet” or “Uma Eyal,” which means “woman of the house” or “mother of the children.” I couldn’t view my mother as anything other than a...
The Super Woman Myth: Can we have it all?
One of the challenges of being a woman in the modern world is that no matter how far we’ve come in equality, in a heterosexual relationship women still, generally, bear the burden of the ‘mental...