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Women and Feminism

Stylist • 14th December 2022

Here’s everything you need to know about ‘lightning crotch’

Even if you’ve never had children, you probably know that pregnancy comes with a lot of unpleasantness. Vomiting, constipation, nasal congestion (yes, really)… and then there’s lightning crotch.

18th August 2022

"It's my absolute passion in life": The amateur sportswomen changing Britain's golf clubs

Genelle Aldred never expected to start playing golf.

Before Covid-19, the writer and broadcaster always preferred going to the gym. Then, when golf was one of the first sports to shake off lockdown restrictions, she finally decided to try it. That was in 2020, and now she plays at Finchley Golf Club up to five times a week.

Kingston Courier • 2nd December 2021

'Successful Mums' coaching firm to work with Kingston women

A company specialising in getting mothers into the workplace has secured funding to help 50 unemployed Kingston mothers return to work.

Redbrick • 31st July 2020

Meghan Markle Speaks Up For Girl Up | Life&Style

In one of her first ever public engagements since she and Prince Harry made the decision to step back from their official roles as senior members of the royal family, Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle earned widespread praise for her keynote speech at an event purposed to inspire and empower girls around the world.

The Swamp • 27th June 2020

Dear Fellow White Women: Want to Smash the Patriarchy? Stand Against Racism

You can't claim to be a feminist if your "activism" involves the exclusion and abuse of people, especially women, of colour.

Medium • 16th June 2020

No, gender-neutral sanitary pads are not “eliminating women”

Periods. Lots of us have them. They suck. Mood swings, cramp, gas, constipation… Sometimes it really does feel like God is trying to punish women- and trans men, and anyone else who gets periods- for something, regardless of whether or not some girl had a craving for apples six thousand years ago.

Except… “women, and trans men, anyone else who gets periods”… oops. Maybe I shouldn’t have said that? Not according to Julie Bindel, anyway.

Redbrick • 20th January 2020

Praised and Shamed: The Media's Representation of Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle | Life&Style

For anyone who’s just woken up, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle recently announced their decision to step back from their senior roles in the royal family, and I’m pretty sure people haven’t been this mad at anyone called “Windsor” since King Edward VIII abdicated in 1936.

Redbrick • 13th November 2019

Billie: The Razor Brand That Wants Women to Grow 'Taches For Movember | Life&Style

Hunch over on the bath rim or in the shower; drag a cheap disposable razor over the skin and cut yourself at least once; luxuriate in the smoothness for a couple of days before the stubble starts poking up and you have do it all over again because hairy legs are ugly, right?

Enter Billie.