Of course you can. Who is to limit who you can date? The question is: do you want to date a Tory?
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Whilst I understand – and almost agree with – this viewpoint, it ignores the fact that women do have agency over their own bodies, even if that means wearing next-to-nothing. If a woman wants to dress in a sexy Halloween outfit because it makes her feel good or even empowered, why shouldn’t she?
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We have come to see and talk about beauty in this singular, reductive and, in my mind, totally nonsensical way. We talk about ‘beauty’ and ‘sexiness’ and so often mean something that we know beauty is not; when we talk about beauty in terms of the ever changing trends of the times - waists and boobs and bums - we butcher ourselves into meat.
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One thing that became immediately obvious to me was the lack of a need to appear ‘presentable’. If I wasn’t leaving the house for any real reason, what was the point of bothering to apply a full face of makeup?
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The question I’m asking is: is it problematic to fantasize and/or act on desires for kidnap and pain play? Or is it normal to have these fantasies and dabble in the dark side of taboo sex?
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In light of Rishi Sunak’s news that we all need to retrain, I too with a smug smile went online to do the government skills test.
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There’s more to the hashtag than what the bikini pics portray: Body Positivity is a movement and it’s not quite one size fits all.
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With over 15 million users, the second-hand shopping app Depop has revolutionized Gen Z’s shopping habits since its inception in 2011. Now, many journalists and social media users are slamming the app’s sellers as engaging in unethical practice by increasing demand for second-hand clothing and reselling it at a higher price.
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From an employer and HR perspective, setting a limit to the amount of instances of sickness an employee can have in a rolling year helps them to keep employees in work and reduces the number of “bogus” sick days and helps them to manage fair treatment of all employees in the workplace. But is this blanket treatment of all employees the best way to manage sickness in the workplace?
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‘Criminal’ is an incredibly blanket term which assembles the likes of drug offenders, thieves, murderers and child rapists into the same category. But surely there is a spectrum to criminality that we should consider before condemning these individuals indefinitely?
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Why am I still sitting here bemoaning the lionization of the NHS? Do they not deserve the applause? Should they not go to the front of the queue? After all, they are at the ‘coal-face’ of this pandemic, exposing themselves day in day out to this virus.
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It would all be okay wouldn’t it? We would be back out there partying, gigging and consuming again by winter, and in the meantime we would donate, stream online, support our favourite venues and artists from our homes, and just manage, wouldn’t we?
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Yes, you read that correctly. In September 2020, artist Erik Kessels adorned the floor of a skatepark with the faces of womxn who had underwent plastic surgery and invited skaters to skate over them, slowly destroying their image in the name of art.
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From as long as I remember, university was sold as “the best time of your life” and a place to make “lifelong memories”. I’m sure everyone’s experience of university is different, but for me, I spent some of my worst days at university wishing that it was over.
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Want your sustainable fashion cape too? Here are 4 easy things you can do to combat the damage of fast fashion on our environment by using charity shops to shop sustainably.
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Sadly, celebrities aren’t sharing their fantastic new chocolate protein powder on social media because they want to bond with you or because they’re your friend and want to let you in on a great deal they’ve found.
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I hold a large issue with defining intelligence based on memory recall. The education system is built on moulding capabilities on how to learn information for recall later on in high-pressure circumstances.
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This is a new era of people seeking work-life balance and wanting to move away from the stressful life of the Big City – the packed train commutes, the rush-hour, the traffic jams. What is there to miss anymore?
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Every industry has been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic. Usually, returning to work after a holiday, annual leave or even a long weekend can have an impact on your mental health and routine, so how are we supposed to prepare to return to the 9-5 seamlessly now?
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