It isn’t often that you hear someone rave about a great congressional hearing they’ve seen online. Heck, outside of big national events, I’m going to bet you have never willingly watched C-Span. But less than one year since she entered Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , who has represented New York’s […]
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Flour power: Worth reading to the end
The best thing since sliced bread turns out not to be sliced bread. Our supermarket loaf, which accounts for 80% of all the bread bought in the UK, is sweetish, soft and pappy. The ingredients listed on the plastic sleeve include added E-numbers, enzyme “improvers”, extra gluten, protein powders, […]
Who Is Belle Delphine, the Gamer Girl Selling Her Bathwater?
Belle Delphine. Photo: @belle.delphine/Instagram What a time to be alive. Years ago, used bathwater existed almost solely as a vehicle for hurling out babies. Now, in the age of Instagram and e-commerce, it’s something you can sell online to horny dudes for $30 a jar. Like Belle Delphine, the […]
Listen to The xx’s latest album, I See You
Five years after Coexist, the UK band’s third album is finally here The xx have dropped their third studio album, titled I See You . The 10-track LP includes previously released singles “ On Hold ”, which was their first musical output in three years, and […]
Photographer Shoog McDaniel celebrates fatness in all its glory
@shooglet The Florida-based photographer and artist talks through their creative process, self-acceptance, and overcoming Instagram’s anti-nude algorithm Shoog McDaniel ’s photographs of fat, often queer, people are undoubtedly among the most striking pieces of art to be found within the world of fat liberation. The Florida-based photographer and artist […]
Gaslight: the return of the play that defined toxic masculinity
The term “gaslighting” – psychological manipulation intended to make the victim question their sanity – has become embedded in our language. This year, accusations of gaslighting were aimed at Love Island housemates Michael and Curtis . In the Netflix series Jessica Jones, David Tennant’s character played mind-control games with […]
Countries with strong women’s rights likely to have better health and faster growth, study finds
Overall, nations with robust women’s rights had better health than those countries where women’s rights were only modestly or poorly respected Countries which have a strong track record on women’s rights are more likely to have better health and faster growth than nations where women’s freedoms are overlooked, new […]
Without these women, man would not have walked on the moon
All 12 people who walked on the moon were men. But among the 400,000 people who made it possible, there were numerous unsung women, from computer engineers and mathematicians to secretaries and seamstresses. Today, as America contemplates a return to the moon, there is resolve to ensure women aren’t […]
Pardon the rant, but here’s why I love my Mooncup so much
If you’re a Guardian-reading woman of a certain age, it’s likely you’ll have been party to the evangelical Mooncup rant. In the Mooncup rant, one woman tells the other about a convex piece of medical-grade silicone that has saved her life. She uses it each time she gets her […]
E-girls and boys’ style is the antidote to the homogenised IG aesthetic
@eve.frsr In the age of the cookie-cutter Instagram influencer, an army of Gen-Zers are exploring the alternative via rising social platform TikTok It’s likely that, if you’ve heard of E-girls before, you know them as the wide-eyed, quirky, and beautiful gamers who earn six-figure salaries playing consoles on Twitch
