Many brands, especially on the high-end and luxury side of fashion, have refused to go the e-commerce way and are now battling excess stock they don’t know what to do with. Exclusivity comes with a price, but is our planet worth the spend?
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We must continue to use politics to ensure change, as much as we must encourage discussion. Anger at polarising opinions is normal, but we need to become better at discussing things. If the news and current affairs fills you with rage, you definitely are not alone. But instead of ignoring it, turn your anger into knowledge. Without sounding like a massive cliche, young people really are the future of politics and we really have a lot of things to sort out. So, we best start somewhere.
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It’s only through accepting and engaging with all the outright rage, anger, grief, sadness, disappointments or resentments that surface in our lives that it becomes truly possible to experience the depths of joy too.
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The simple fact of the matter is, that there are implicit biases in the medical industry based on race and gender that directly affect the care that patients receive, this is not a statement; it is a fact. This has a devastating impact on patients, their loved ones and their communities.
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For me, I have had my own close call. At nineteen, I entered the worst mental health crisis I have ever experienced. I was paranoid, hallucinating and very suicidal. I reached out for help from mental health services only to be told that “we don’t treat people with your diagnosis”, “we treat people with mental illnesses, not personality disorders”.
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Time is such an ever-changing concept, and generations before us and generations to come after us will experience such a vast change in societal wants and desires. I recently visited my grandma and grandad respectively on both sides of my family, and tried to delve into their experiences and views of the world, in particular with response to this awful global pandemic that is unfolding before us. It is very easy to assume that our older relatives are so ‘old-fashioned’ to the changing world around them and that their views are subjected to the times they are so used to.
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Periods are something unique to those of us who bear uteruses and ovaries, and the (mostly white) men who developed western medicine tried their hardest to brush over the fact that their wives and daughters, and half their patients, bled from the vagina every month or so, and that might be something that should be addressed.
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If you could visit anywhere in the world of fantasy – where would you go? Would you go down the rabbit hole to Wonderland or fly to Neverland? What about a visit to Mordor or a secret visit to Hogwarts? Perhaps you would visit Winnie the Pooh for a picnic in the Hundred Acre Woods? Just imagine the chance of visiting the Cave of Wonders and finding a genie in a lamp! The possibilities are endless although impossible to visit, your imagination can only take you so far after all – or so I thought.
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The coronavirus crisis has led to the most significant economic recession since The Great Depression. Worldwide unemployment is likely to climb to a level unseen in almost a hundred years. The less wealthy, young people and women are all likely to be disproportionately affected by the economic impacts. How bad are we really talking though?
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Some of you might shiver when hearing this word: feminist. You might think it’s not for you – you being a woman or a man. You might think that we don’t need it anymore; women have rights now. Or, if you’re a man, you might simply think you have nothing to do with it - you can’t be feminist by definition, and we don’t want you here anyway. Right?
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There’s this problem in being blissfully unaware, as I imagine so many white people are. It raises the issue that after a while, it’s not enough to sit around saying ‘I’m not actively racist, and against racist people, therefore I don’t need to get involved’. This legitimises systemic racism and also panders to the idea that racism is the victims’ issue to resolve which, sadly, is kind of the status quo. It’s embedded in us; even in chess - white goes first.
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Cisgendered ‘gender roles’, and indeed the performance of gender altogether, has formed the basis of the family unit for years. At its most basic, men are expected to be powerful, leading figures, while women must be subservient and completely charming.
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As single mother to a little boy, I must confess that I have an addiction and I hope that it is one I will never be cured of. The awe and anticipation that travelling the world brings, plus all the lessons along the way, is a passion that I cannot escape and one that I am determined to pass onto my son.
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Like flares drifting through a dark sky, these little moments of goofiness light up the monotony of lockdown. It might be a daydreamy waltz around the kitchen while waiting for the kettle to boil, or tuneless yodelling floating from the bathroom while the shower runs.
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Cummings-gate feels like the typical case of disparity between those living in a high-rise block versus those with privilege which can freely travel to a spare house in the countryside.
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Forget about gender gap, is there such thing as a “health gap”? It seems like the healthier you are the more likely you are to be given fair opportunities and to move up the career ladder. Suddenly, having a masters degree from a top university doesn’t matter as long as you have a health condition, your intelligence and capabilities don’t outweigh your disability.
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I’ve always thought of myself as a spontaneous person. One day when I was 17 I logged onto my UCAS account and rejected all my university offers (much to my mother’s despair) in favour of going to theatre school to study sound and lighting design.
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I love this saying. Instead of using phrases such as ‘inner demons’, I like to use ‘inner saboteur’ (IS). I first heard this whilst watching RuPaul’s Drag Race, as Ru often uses it to console queens when he spots they’re self-sabotaging and wants them to identify the root cause of why that may be. Our IS can represent lots of things - our doubts, our control, our lack of trust, our inner critique, our expectations, our limiting labels of ourselves and of course, our insecurities.
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Meriel Talbot, a civil servant working in the ministry of Agriculture, had a solution, she formed the Women’s Land Army on behalf of the government. This was a group of young women dedicated to producing food in this country, and despite only being formed 2 and a half years after it started, over 23,000 women had signed up by the end of WW1.
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For much of my life I’ve suffered from anxiety. Eczema. Pins and needles. Overwhelming emotions. It’s come out in various forms. However in the last six months I’ve experienced a continuous wave of hypochondriasis.
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