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Juno Roche
LGBTQ+
Honest Conversations With Trans Kids
Juno Roche
12 Aug 2020
LGBTQ+
“My Realignment Surgery Made Me More Trans, Not More Woman”
Juno Roche
11 Nov 2019
Hair Story
Relief, Dysphoria & Everything In Between: 5 Trans People Share Their Hair ...
Juno Roche
9 May 2019
Work & Money
As A Trans Woman Over 50, I'm Visible – When The Media Wants Me T...
Okay so here's the deal, in a nutshell. I'm almost 55. I wasted a lot of my earlier years having fun (and not so much fun), I have a radical voic
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Juno Roche
Life Begins At
Why I Left London For A Tiny Village In Spain
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
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Juno Roche
Wellness
Rehab Centres Made Me Feel Valued As A Heroin Addict
I first used heroin at 26. By 30 I was a registered addict who would be on an ever-spinning roundabout of treatment, drug use and trouble for many years to
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Juno Roche
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Wellness
If I'm So Proud Of Being Trans, Why Didn't I Say It Straightaway?
The following is an extract from Queer Sex: A Trans and Non-Binary Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure and Relationships by Juno Roche. I met a man online recently
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Juno Roche
Wellness
How ‘Pretty Privilege’ Feels For Trans Women
I didn't encounter the words 'feminised' or 'feminisation' until I started transitioning. Yet currently, both words occupy quite a
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Juno Roche
Politics
Why I’ll Never Tire Of LGBT Activism
2017 was the year that bullies tried to belittle activists because on many levels they knew that we had stepped up our game, we had said “enough is e
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Juno Roche
Wellness
My Experience Shows Why Trans People Need Safe Spaces
It’s difficult to judge if someone says they define themselves as a trans woman but for all intents and purposes they look and sound like a man.– Carol
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Juno Roche
Wellness
Why Are Women Still Being Left Behind In The Fight Against HIV?
Across five London GUM clinics there has been a recent, startling drop of around 40% in the number of new cases of HIV infection; this has been described a
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Juno Roche
Hot Fuzz
We Are All Hairy Beings – Male, Female, Cis Or Trans
I can't find an exact or even a semi-accurate estimate of the number of hairs a human being has on their body. Taking an average from endless online s
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Juno Roche
Life Begins At
When It Comes To Beauty, Older Women Just Can’t Win
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
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Juno Roche
Wellness
Why I’m Practising Mindfulness In The Mirror
I should be better at this: the simple act of looking in a mirror. It’s estimated that most women glance at their reflection around 16 times a day – no
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Juno Roche
Wellness
Why Trans People Need The Right To Self-Identify
Later this year the government is set to review the Gender Recognition Act 2004. The review will look at, among other issues, the legal concept of 'tr
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Juno Roche
World News
What Pride Was Like In 1985
It's Pride Month again and across the globe hundreds of thousands of LGBTQI+ folk are gathering together to celebrate our freedoms, our unity and our
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Juno Roche
World News
This Study Is Wonderful News For People Living With HIV
A very recent study has been met with wide open arms and a big smile by the community of people living with HIV. The study, from the University of Bristol,
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Juno Roche
Body
Women Over 40 On How They Feel About Their Bodies
What does our obsession with "youth" mean for women over 40? Juno Roche asks her friends, and herself, how middle-aged women got fearful of ageing.
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Juno Roche
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Politics
How It Feels To Use A Gendered Bathroom Pre & Post Transition
I suggested this piece, about the insidious Mr Trump rolling back the hard-fought rights of my trans brothers and sisters Stateside. You know, the rights t
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Juno Roche
Beauty
Understanding The Perils Of ‘Unkind’ Mirrors As A 50-Year-Old
I looked up from where I was dozing in the passenger seat of the car to a glorious blue sky that rested on top of a grey-green mountain range. My eyes trai
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Juno Roche
Wellness
My Hopes For Trans Children In 2017
When I was at school, a lovely boy with a mop of dark hair called me a pansy when we were playing kiss chase; I was running away from the boys in an appare
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Juno Roche
Music
Juno Roche Remembers George Michael
The video for “Club Tropicana” opens with Pepsi and Shirlie, backing singers for Wham, first driving and then walking into a set for a poolside
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Juno Roche
Spirit
Christmas Morning When You’re Single…
I committed to writing this piece a couple of weeks into December; I had an idea that I could write a series of pieces documenting my single – no chi
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Juno Roche
Sex
Mariah, I’m Spending Christmas Alone
Dear Father, Mother and Mariah Christmas, I am reporting that this year I will be spending the day – the big C day, the one before and the one after
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Juno Roche
Sex
The Reality Of Loneliness Over 50
Several women have contacted me to say they liked my dating piece (middle-aged Tinder explorations resulting in absolutely no dates, romance or fuckery) bu
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Juno Roche
Body
What Reaching ‘Middle Age’ Feels Like When You’re Single
I'm getting older. I can't avoid it and I can't deny it. I tried to dye my hair this week (regulation GMTV blonde) and it now has a sheen of
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Juno Roche
Sex
Experimenting With Tinder As A 50-Year-Old Trans Woman
With the new Tinder announcement that they are increasing their gender options beyond the current binary “man and woman” to encompass “37
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Juno Roche
Wellness
Letter To An Unknown Troll
I am a woman who happens to be transgender and who happens to be HIV positive. I have spent almost half of my life living with HIV, in fact thriving with H
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Juno Roche
Body
What ‘Passing’ In The Transgender Community Really Means
If you look up the word 'passing' it doesn't lead to many positive statements. Rather, it alludes to something fleeting, something superfici
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Juno Roche
Sex
The Dating Game… As A 50-Year-Old Trans Woman
It's been eight years since I've been kissed, it's been ten years since I've had sex and maybe fifteen since I've had any kind of
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Juno Roche
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