Amelia Abraham

Losing You is a weeklong series investigating heartbreak. According to Facebook data, 11th December is the most popular day for couples to break

We usually think of child beauty pageants as an American phenomenon. After all, they make up a booming industry in America. It was estimated in 2013 that t

Thinking of making a big move? In a new regular column, we ask what life might be like if we were to relocate to various cities around the world. While we

Sasha Kazantseva is a blogger and journalist from Russia. She’s 32, lives in Saint Petersburg and identifies openly as a lesbian. In her country, being L

The following is an extract from Amelia Abraham's new nonfiction book, Queer Intentions: a (personal) journey through LGBTQ+ culture, out on Picador,

This week on Refinery29, we’re filling your screens and consciousness with inspiring women over 50. Why? Because living in a culture obsessed with youth

Post-Pride, three queer people discuss the difficulty of dating in secret, and how same-sex relationships are still not as accepted as we might think. Imag

As much as the public conversation around menstruation has improved in recent years, there’s still a lot we don’t know and don’t talk about. In the U

Last week, The Sunday Times Middle East Correspondent Louise Callaghan was reporting from a refugee camp in northern Syria. She describes talking to a woma

Plenty of women are whistleblowers, and plenty more work for the organisations that aid them. So why do we rarely hear about these women? And who are they?

This month, we mark the long-awaited centenary of women’s partial suffrage: 100 years since some, but not all, British women were first granted the right

A crowd of thousands booed in disapproval of Donald Trump, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Harvey Weinstein outside Downing Street yesterday, holding signs that read ?

New York emcee Quay Dash has an infectious laugh and a sharp sense of humour. When I ask her why she called her debut EP Transphobic, she immediately jokes

Cats, dogs, introverts, extroverts; whatever you want to call it, most people would agree that there are two types of person in the world: the ones who can

Happy Sexual Health Awareness Week. A week that says: If you haven’t weed on your hand in an STI clinic or lied about a broken condom to a sexual health