Serial killer documentaries are oddly marketable. Netflix has of course capitalised on our grave fascination, as in December ‘The Ripper’ premiered on the platform. The four-part docuseries details the murders of 13 women from 1975 to 1980 at the hands of Peter Sutcliffe, better known by his alias, The Yorkshire Ripper.
Read MoreJanuary heralds a time to shape the incoming year with promises of striving to be better, getting healthier and achieving goals. The next 12 months stretch out in front of us, a clean slate just waiting to be written on
Read MoreWith the arrival of the Coronavirus vaccine, we have seen a dramatic rise in scepticism surrounding the jab. Often, this scepticism has been aggressively dismissed as anti-vaxxing. People who have shown the slightest bit of concern as to what the vaccine contains and its potential long-term side-effects have been accused of being uneducated and, often, of halting the process to getting over the pandemic. This scepticism has not, however, been attempted to be understood.
Read MoreThis year though I went down a research rabbit hole when my mum told me that she had heard about Reindeers eyes changing colours and wanted to know why. I read about their feet, their antlers, their noisy tendons. I learnt about their subspecies variation, their eating habits, reintroductions in Scotland. There was a lot, but I’ve picked a couple of my favourites. So, strap in for some of the reasons why I think reindeer are awesome.
Read MoreAs a young woman who has battled an eating disorder, please don’t tell me to lose weight this month, this year, or ever. Please don’t tell me that I need to shred or burn off the Christmas food that I so heartily enjoyed over this festive season. Please don’t continue to allow diet culture to make me believe that my body needs to change with the New Year.
Read MoreWe are often challenged to step out of our comfort zones. We do it without considering the very possibility that it might not be a great idea. I am convinced that this challenge often does not come from within
Read MoreWe may be in and out of lockdowns and different tiers for some time. Theatre needs to adapt to these conditions, with smaller, socially-distanced shows, but also with productions that reflect on our experiences of the pandemic in a subtle and imaginative way.
Read MoreMy parents laughed when I told them I’d seen somebody in my room. My mum told me I’d been reading too much Harry Potter—and I had to admit, it did look like a Dementor. But her breezy explanation never satisfied me. Although I was, at that age, obsessed with the boy wizard, I didn’t believe my enthusiasm for Hogwarts was enough to cause waking hallucinations.
Read MoreThis rabbit-like inability to be sick is sadly not evidence of a super-human immune system, nor is it an indication that I possess what my friend Eve would describe as the hardy ‘stomach of a goat’. Instead, it’s the result of a life-long and exhausting struggle with severe emetophobia – one that, up until the recent pandemic, I believed I was finally overcoming.
Read MoreBreast implants or the, ‘Boob Job,’ has been the number one cosmetic procedure carried out for the past 13 years, in the USA alone 300,000 people opted for the procedure in 2019. But many are not aware of Breast Implant Illness and the impact it can have.
Read MoreBynner and Ficke had more than proven their point: they’d successfully demonstrated that anything (even drunken creations about pleasuring oneself) could be passed off as high culture if you tried hard enough.
Read MoreWorry ruins lives, it wastes time, energy, and resources. It gives nothing back and saps the joy out of life. So why do we do it? Worry doesn’t rob tomorrow of its sorrow, its saps today of its strength.
Read MoreI am one of these parents and I have a few things to say. Not just about the (sadly expected) mishandling of free school meals provision in a time of national crisis by the government, but also about how it feels to be on the receiving end. This latest debacle feels like the perfect example of how little our government thinks of us, and the poor choices they have made in a time when we need strong, fair leadership, more than ever.
Read MoreAt some point I made the mistake of saying ‘yes baby, I will always give you a massage whenever you need one’. This was a seriously misjudged error on so many levels. One, I didn’t realise quite how long forever is.
Read MoreNow it’s three months later (keep up people), and I am back in the specialist's office. After 5 minutes of silence and tapping at the computer, she spins around on her chair and rather flippantly states, ‘Yes you have Narcolepsy. You know it cannot be cured, right?’
Read MoreOne small sentence placed within an act dating back to 1973, would prove that new laws and possibilities do not mean that the relationships were truly seen as equal and previous beliefs about LGBTQ+ people were still going strong.
Read MoreStreet harassment controls where womxn can walk and feel safe. It controls what womxn feel comfortable wearing. It puts them on edge and makes them anxious. Subsequently, street harassment badly impacts womxn’s mental health which is should be reason enough to socially condemn it.
Read MoreWhere were the armed guards? Where were the police whose job it is to stop people getting as far as they did? Where was the second Capitol Hill officer to back a brother up? Oh, yeah, the protesters were White, so there was no need to call in the troops.
Read More2021 dawns and at the stroke of midnight, I feel I will turn back into a pumpkin. No, not the coach, I am not Cinderella. I have turned into a pumpkin.
Read MoreHonestly? We were not prepared for what it meant to be full time carers. And there’s two of us. Looking after someone who isn’t even sick sick. Just limited in her mobility. Being a carer is Tough. Tough with a capital T.
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