Four women in fashion, film and beauty on ageing and self-image
A look at the punishing beauty standards of film The Substance, and how that pressure shows up IRL.
I'm trying to reject 'lipstick shame'
Is shame around makeup a universal feeling? Designer and Beauty Bender James Dobson explores lipstick, embarrassment and binaries.
Bye-bye baggage: How I'm moving on from toxic exes
To truly purge the ghosts of my relationships past, first I needed to unpack.
‘Who the hell am I?’: An identical twin’s hair identity crisis
A change of hair splinters Amber Older’s foundation of self – and sisterhood.
Unstitching the shame around sexual assault
New theatre production The Clitoris Conundrum explores the struggles of intimacy with a celebration of resilience, of love and of queerness.
Kanoa Lloyd knows the reality of being a brown woman in the public eye
“It’s impossible to imagine the shit that people like Golriz Ghahraman are served on a regular basis, unless you’ve lived it.”
Shattering the myths surrounding sex, identity and pleasure
Podcaster and intimacy coach Stacey O'Gorman wants the traditional whitewashed sex industry to go deeper.
Don’t talk to me about ‘brain fog’
Please, don’t talk to me about ‘Covid fatigue’ unless you mean the bone-crushing, mind-numbing exhaustion that comes from this almighty germ
On youth
"I’m discovering how much more accessible happiness is when it’s not contingent on my girlhood."
Lessons in loneliness, from an 'adjusted' only child
We aren’t all self-obsessed or lacking in social skills.
Oh, you love Formula 1? Name every champion ever
In the thrilling world of F1 and motorsport, there can be a sexist divide between what constitutes a 'real' or 'fake' fan.
Unpacking and healing from my mild case of mummy issues
"Her pain of being an immigrant meant her discomfort and displacement gave me freedom."
