Words by Lucy Grubb With her debut novel, Where The Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens makes originality look effortless. The book has come at a time when truth is an all-too undervalued currency in our society. Its worth has become rather lost somewhere over the years as people become more interested in the things they can…
WORDS BY ROSILY ROBERTS Increasingly, the word ‘fast’ has negative connotations. In a world that once heralded acceleration as an emblem of progress and modernity, now there are growing efforts to slow things back down to a comfortable, even-breathed pace. Take fast food, for example. There was a time when fast food represented the height…
Words by Rosily Roberts Fashion Revolution Week happens every year in the week surrounding the 24th of April, the anniversary of the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster, when a factory making fast fashion in Bangladesh collapsed, killing 1,138 people and injuring over 2,000 more. It was the fourth largest industrial disaster in history, and the vast…
As part of our Working Women series, we spoke to the editor of Nyayo magazine, Gemma D’Souza. Gemma provides the perfect paradigm of young female success, and her story is all the more heartening after hearing about the sexism she’s overcome to establish herself. The word ‘Nyayo’ in Swahili directly translates to footprints. Gemma’s magazine…
Words by Emma McCormack As the saying goes ‘comparison breeds discontent’ and never has this been more relevant, in an age where we can compare every aspect of our being to almost the entire planet, just by logging in. Moving away from the narrative that you have to do everything with a sense of immediacy…
The self-explorative nature of essay writing can often feel cathartic and freeing, allowing for a rambling chat with your thoughts that would in any other form — having read the thing aloud, for instance — by the end leave a room full of your dearest and most encouraging friends talking distractedly among themselves. This collection…
In a tale all too frequently told — in an age of throwaway culture and dismal divorce rates — my father left the family home when I was a baby, and responsibility for my care was left to my mother. Alone with a boisterous bundle of snot and incontinence, who had a stubborn unwillingness to…
Why in the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder, men must be the ones to instigate change Words by Niamh Cullen I’ve been struggling to continue as normal today, with everything going on in the news. I can’t get my head around the fact that women are being told not to go out alone after dark,…
Jess, we’re sure you’re the subject of a lot of pride having accomplished so much so young. By day you’re a writer for a hugely successful fashion magazine, and by night you’re working away creating content and helping others with The Grief Network. But you had to start from somewhere. What’s the weirdest job you’ve…
As part of our Working Women series, we caught up with ultimate style icon and owner of vintage venture Selena’s Shop, Selena Williams. We chatted about how fashion is woven into the fabric of her upbringing, her journey from clothing aficionado to cultivated content creative, and the unique friction felt as a young woman of…
Skincare guru Lily Roberts introduces us to a few of her favourite beauty brands, while highlighting the lack of representation in the world of beauty that we’re all on a mission to rectify. Our regular media sources over the last few weeks have been saturated with devastating stories of police brutality, the murders of innocent…
Our Style and Sustainability Columnist, Rosily Roberts, thought we should bring it back to basics to give our readers a little taster of the textile industry, to help us understand what we can do to stitch up some serious sustainability issues in the world of fashion. Sustainable fashion is undeniably gaining traction in mainstream consciousness.…
Words by Scarlett Mansfield In the Dream House is a memoir that innovatively explores the topic of domestic abuse in a same-sex female relationship. While I had my reservations about the book, I understand that it treads a relatively untrodden path in its crucial pursuit to purvey the concept of queer assault. As a historian,…
Words by Maddy Bloxham I’m sad and mad. All the time. My emotions have completely engulfed me and I’m carrying their weight, every day. They’re smothering my every thought and action as I witness what a pandemic really means for migrants and minorities. Coronavirus has affected people in a magnitude of ways: loss, upheaval, uncertainty,…
Words by Immy Patron We’re spending more time than ever before familiarising ourselves with our own facial expressions on video calls, but what does this mean for those searching for romance? Immy Patron reflects on how her impromptu Zoom date held up a (rather revealing) mirror to her instinctive resistance to finding love online. I…
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