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Six years after #MeToo, has reality truly improved for women?
BY SHEMS ROCHA
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Early marriage, especially for reproductive purposes, no longer fits African women
BY PATIENCE TINOTENDA MUTSETSE
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Being in the job market is a lonely affair, just like searching for the right person.
BY CHOUROUK GORRAB
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Who said pleasure couldn’t help the planet too?
BY THE SPILL
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Help put the magic back into Christmas by supporting one of these charities this year
BY THE SPILL
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DEI is a mere buzzword in the average organisation because it excludes people with disabilities
BY MAHEVASH SHAIKH
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Growing up in Nigeria, I thought bullying was only what I saw on Western TV shows. But the illusion was quickly shattered.
BY AISHA KABIRU MOHAMMED
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Why we need to address and end the culture of the "golden son"
BY ANGEL NDUKA-NWOSU
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Sometimes, the best way to love someone is to let them go. And sometimes, the best way to love yourself is a clean and final friendship breakup.
BY JENNIFER HAKIM
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Leaning away from ambitious dreams and impossibly high targets just feels like the natural path now
BY HANNAH SHEWAN STEVENS
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Ukrainian healthcare company BetterMe and UKRAINEPRIDE NGO share inspirational life stories to unite people with different sexual orientations and gender identities, and help them better understand each other
BY BETTERME
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As a disabled family, this mass inflation is constantly hanging over our heads
BY PHOEBE JENKINS
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While I watched my relationship slowly slip into disrepair, Taylor Swift’s ‘Tolerate It’ gave me the sign I desperately needed
BY EMMA FLINT
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Like so many other disabled people, I found my community on Twitter. And I'm terrified to lose it.
BY RACHEL CHARLTON-DAILEY
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Conditioned to 'add', I now choose to subtract clutter from my life and to-do list, and it has preserved my mental health
BY EDIKAN UMOH
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I want to go back to celebrating my father on Father’s Day, so I talked to the folks who found ways to keep this day special even after losing a loved one
BY JENNIFER HAKIM
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Because your sweetheart may enjoy this a lot more than a box of chocolates
BY JENNIFER HAKIM
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Here's a list of our favourite vegan influencers to help you do Veganuary right
BY CHOUROUK GORRAB
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These 5 UK-based charities directly help marginalised communities through LGBTQI allyship, safe spaces, refugee integration, food redistribution, and more
BY JENNIFER HAKIM
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With a whole lot of generational baggage and a complex heritage, I laughed at all the micro-aggressions thrown my way, and I wish I'd understood why earlier
BY JENNIFER HAKIM
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Maybe we should view recovery from heartbreak, however protracted, as a success at learning rather than a failure at love
BY ROSIE WILBY
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As someone who has adopted, I have high hopes for the Government's new national adoption strategy, and what it means for LGBTQIA+ families
BY DAMIAN KERLIN
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Perhaps art is meant to shake us to the core, but a little warning is appreciated
BY CHLOE JOHNSON
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"Instead of pushing myself onto a seat at a table, I’ve decided to create a new table for all those who deserve to have their voice heard.”
BY ANMOL IRFAN
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Being Nigerian, I knew I could not go to my mum or dad when I started getting consecutive depressive episodes: they would just try to pray it away
BY EDIKAN UMOH
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Today has been called "freedom day", but for those of us with disabilities and chronic illnesses, it's the start of a new nightmare
BY RACHEL CHARLTON-DAILEY
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To all the mutuals who brought us joy and comfort throughout the past year, without asking anything in return
BY SABRINA FEARON-MELVILLE
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Bi+ erasure takes many forms, and I’m getting tired of constantly fighting for my identity to be recognised and taken seriously
BY JESS AMY DIXON
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The ‘Period Positivity’ movement is creating space for more open and honest discussions about periods, but for some, menstruation can be a traumatic experience - which is why Natracare is encouraging a more nuanced conversation
BY SHARNA WAID
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We must be critical of the racism within our own communities while also acknowledging the immigrant complex and its roots
BY SUMAIYA AHMED
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“It’s been deeply painful to have to watch white women come to the same conclusions that the Black community and others have been shouting about for decades.”
BY BANSEKA KAYEMBE
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Viewing it as a ‘phobia’, as if it was similar to having a fear of spiders or heights, completely minimises the experiences of Muslim people
BY SHAHED EZAYDI
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The reasoning behind ‘collaborative filtering’ and ‘race filters’ may be more complex than we think
BY ASYIA IFTIKHAR
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It started with empty Chinatowns, then the violence followed
BY KATE NG
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Forcing DNRs on vulnerable disabled patients confirms that the UK still supports eugenics - and is just the next stage of the systemic oppression and destruction of disabled people
BY HANNAH SHEWAN STEVENS
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Moving back to my seaside hometown I was reminded that in the UK, Black lives still don’t really matter
BY BANSEKA KAYEMBE
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This year will be different, because we can do better
BY SAKSHI UDAVANT
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Rules number one: Don’t tolerate any of it.
BY ADRIANNA NINE
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Sisterhood magic manifests in surprising places.
BY FRANCESCA BAKER
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Pandemic dating is a thing,
and having the ‘Covid talk’ has become
the new norm
BY SOHEL SARKAR
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