Emma Gleeson explains how made-up “needs” keep us wasting money on snake oil… Cellulite. If you’d never heard the word before you might think it was a new brand of…
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Niamh O Donoghue on Mary Ann Sieghart’s fascinating new book, The Authority Gap It’s fitting that Mary Ann Sieghart’s latest tome, The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less…
Comedian Emma Doran on TikTok’s assessment of her as an older millennial… Part your hair slightly off-centre and love your skinny jeans? Yes? Well, I have to inform you, I’m…
Mental illness, a conservatorship, persecution by the media; Frances Farmer may have been a star of 1930s cinema, but her story is as 2021 as it gets, says Sarah Macken…
Sandrine Uwase Ndahiro writes about how the beauty of Black women is portrayed in popular culture… Watching Love Island for the past few weeks has been entertaining, to say the least….
Sarah Macken examines the life of Jean Seberg, and sees in it echoes of how Hollywood still treats women How do you tell the story of a fallen It Girl?…
Megan Cassidy explores the push for perfection online. In the summer of 2019, mega-influencer Arii was at the top of her game. Having amassed 2.5m followers on Instagram, her grid…
Gillian Roddie explores communication in the digital age and what we lose when the internet filters our conversations. Actions really do speak louder than words, along with eye movements, body language,…
Jenn Gannon considers why seeing a sexually contented woman onscreen is more taboo than witnessing men getting their faces torn off in action films Every so often film Twitter will…
The Golden Girls are now on Disney+. Caitlin McBride celebrates their enduring appeal Before there was Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda – there was Rose, Blanche, Sophia and Dorothy. The Golden…