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.
Read MoreTales about loos, bogs, shitters, throne rooms, crappers, khazi’s. Musings on the littlest room in the house and public conveniences.
Read MoreI have been in remission for 2 years and 4 months. I got Covid and survived and yes I'm still Vegan. I don't know how long Lupus will allow me to continue cheating, but for now there is peace.
Read MoreThis is an exploration into why you should care that 55% of men said porn was their main source of sex education (BBC 2017). This is a deep (if you pardon) discussion about three of the most prevalent, and arguably most damaging, taboos in porn: Race, Age, and Violence.
Read MoreLemn Sissay, Bernardine Evaristo, Maya Angelou, Yomi Adegoke, Elizabeth Uviebinené and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are just a few of the black authors who inspire me. I look to them for knowledge, wisdom and how to transcend life’s more challenging moments.
Read MoreMany Black creatives influence my creativity, so picking one was hard. A hugely successful album charting number-one on debut, featuring British number-one singles in ‘Pass Out’ and ‘Written in the Stars’, Tinie’s album was my soundtrack that year.
It is not fundamentally expensive to be vegan; if you think of it in its most basic form, the husbandry, slaughter, preparation, preservation and cooking of meats is far more of a task than growing fruits, vegetables and cereals on your land. So why do I say that veganism is not cheap?
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?
Read MoreCancel culture has stripped us of our courage to learn from each other for fear of being publicly shamed for exploring other perspectives, and as a consequence has shut down many spaces for progressive conversation.
Read More‘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?
Read MoreWhy 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.
Read MoreIt 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?
Read MoreAnd so it was with the Bristol ‘Riot’ that took place on the 2nd April 1980 in the area of St. Pauls. I’ve placed ‘Riot’ in inverted commas because if you ask the African-Caribbean residents who were involved, they’d probably describe what happened as an ‘uprising’. According to Jagun Akinshegun, who was a teenage at the time, who said about what happened: “[a riot’ might do if it was a bar brawl or football hooliganism but it certainly does not apply to this situation.”
Read MoreYes, 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.
Read MoreFrom 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.
Read MoreWant 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.
Read MoreAmy Coney Barrett - Trump’s supreme court nomination - is everything Ruth Bader Ginsburg wasn’t. It is a painful irony that one of the most revered feminist judges will be replaced with one who has a questionable record when it comes to womxn’s rights.
Read MoreLaura Bush famously said “The role of First Lady is whatever the First Lady wants it to be”. However, that is simply not the case.
Read MoreSadly, 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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