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Vicky Spratt
Living
Is Ambition Dead?
Vicky Spratt
5 Dec 2020
Health News
A Government Policy Is Influencing Women’s Decision To Have Abortions ...
Vicky Spratt
3 Dec 2020
Living
Boys Don’t Cry? Meet The Men Trying To Redefine Masculinity
Vicky Spratt
19 Nov 2020
Wellness
Real Talk, Should You Actually Freeze Your Eggs?
When she was 32 years old, Ali, a marketing manager based in the southeast of England, broke up with her boyfriend of six years. “There was a nagging
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Vicky Spratt
Wellness
Are Metaphors Key To Understanding Women’s Pain?
There is an unforgettable line in Diane Hoffmann and Anita Tarzian’s 2001 study, “The Girl Who Cried Pain: A Bias Against Women in the Treatment of
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Vicky Spratt
Work & Money
These Women Paid An Instagram Influencer To Help Them Manifest Mo...
Manifesting is a transition from the inchoate to reality, a process through which the nebulous becomes tangible. Whether it actually works is less easy to
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Vicky Spratt
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Uncharted Bodies
It Now Takes
Even
Longer To Get An Endometriosis Diagnosis
When she was 19, Brittnee started to experience painful sex. “That’s when my endometriosis started impacting my daily life and relationships, thoug
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Vicky Spratt
Coronavirus
How Coronavirus Taught Us There Are Alternative Ways To Live
Whenever there is a crisis, commentators say that things “will never be the same again”. In the moment, when life as we know it has been pulled
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Vicky Spratt
News
Misogyny Becoming A Hate Crime Would Change Women’s Lives. ...
Misogyny is more vicious than sexism and more violent than chauvinism. The word is widely used these days, particularly since the #MeToo movement went vira
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Vicky Spratt
Uncharted Bodies
Hysterical Women: Why Is Hormonal Contraception Still Failing Us?
Reproductive autonomy as we know it today began on 15th October 1951 with a Mexican wild yam root. Dr Carl Djerassi (also known as the father of the pill)
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Vicky Spratt
Uncharted Bodies
Will I Ever Know Why I React So Badly To The Pill?
Warning: This article includes descriptions of suicidal ideation. I was sitting still on the sofa but everything around me was moving. I couldn’t make it
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Vicky Spratt
Uncharted Bodies
Uncharted Bodies: Why We’re Exploring The Gender Health Gap
It was a damp but tepid morning in early March as winter gave way to spring. Coronavirus dominated the headlines and news broadcasts but the overriding mes
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Vicky Spratt
Work & Money
The Devastating Effect Debt Had On My Mental Health
I know a little bit about being in debt. About how it keeps you up at night, making your heart race and your stomach lurch. I know that the experience of o
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Vicky Spratt
I'M A CRIMINAL
Don’t Let This Good Abortion News Go Unnoticed
“I am not free,” said Audre Lorde in 1981, “while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” This
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Vicky Spratt
Mind
Has Coronavirus Finally Put A Stop To Toxic Spirituality?
Laughter emoji flooded our group WhatsApp as one friend asked: “Are these personally targeted at me or just your average millennial Instagram user?!?
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Vicky Spratt
Beauty
I Controlled My Acne By Tracking My Period – Here’s How I D...
Growing older, I’m starting to realise that things we thought were universal truths are actually mostly false. The one I’m particularly galled
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Vicky Spratt
Politics
Why Can’t The Government Grasp That We’re All Renters?
I grew up hearing the axiom “youth is wasted on the young” trotted out by older people – family members, family friends and teachers – so o
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Vicky Spratt
Coronavirus
How Toxic Masculinity & The Refusal To Wear Face Masks Has Put Us...
You’ll have heard the phrase “traditional masculinity is a prison”. You’ll have seen it memed and thrown around on Twitter. It’s shorthan
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Vicky Spratt
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Living
Communication Fail: Please Stop Texting Me
In a box tucked away behind a bundle of clothes I’ve been meaning to put on Depop for at least two years is a very, very old mobile phone. Stored in its
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Vicky Spratt
News
The Very Real Threat Of The Far Right In The UK
“I’ve never met my dad,” says 21-year-old Josh as we sit in drizzle in Manchester’s Vimto Park, next to the cartoon-like sculpture of a gia
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Vicky Spratt
Coronavirus
How Coronavirus Has Exposed Class Inequality In The UK
Near where I live in east London there’s an Italian restaurant. A takeaway pasta will set you back around £12 plus delivery which, when you think about
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Vicky Spratt
Coronavirus
Tears & Trauma: Even Lockdown Didn’t Stop Anti-Abortion Pro...
It’s 8.30am and it’s already warm and muggy. 25 degrees worth of warm and muggy to be precise. A man is shouting, his words fill the sticky air. He rep
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Vicky Spratt
Relationships
Coronavirus Support Bubbles Force Us To Face Who & What We Truly ...
I have always known that there is a distinct difference between being alone and being lonely but I’m not sure I ever understood it. I know that I underst
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Vicky Spratt
Coronavirus
“There’s A Stigma”: The Young Women Claiming Un...
In April, Britain was experiencing an unseasonable heatwave in the middle of a global pandemic that had plunged most of the country into a state of social
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Vicky Spratt
News
The Young Homeless Women Hiding In Plain Sight
Few homeless people have a chance to tell their story. Ignored and overlooked, we know that they exist and that they are being failed not just by politicia
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Vicky Spratt
Global News
The Sinister Abortion News You May Have Missed This Week
What a week this has been, as people keep saying in earnest on Twitter and Instagram. Yes, a lot has happened but are we really surprised? The pandemic whi
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Vicky Spratt
Wellness
Please, Stop Hugging Me
Come with me on a private tour of the intimate details of my recent journey into skin hunger. It’s a slow, painful uphill cycle in which we’ll spen
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Vicky Spratt
Spirit
Written In The Stars? What Coronavirus Means For Our Relationship...
Every morning during lockdown, 31-year-old Janey* and her flatmate Seraphina* sit down opposite one another to work from home on their laptops at their kit
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Vicky Spratt
Wellness
Cocaine, Coronavirus & Me
Since the lockdown began, one positive and unforeseen consequence of self-isolating – away from the city and my flat and my friends – is that I’ve st
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Vicky Spratt
Living
Why I’m Not Sure I Want To Leave Lockdown
On the day that the scale of the coronavirus crisis hit me, I was at the Department of Health. It was early in the morning and I was there for a breakfast
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Vicky Spratt
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