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Work Stress Made Me Self-Harm: The Grim State Of UK Midwifery
Ellie Broughton
4 Jan 2022
Health News
Think Pandemic Stress Affected Your Period? Scientists Have Some Answers
Vicky Spratt
20 Dec 2021
Movies
Naomie Harris Reveals She Was Sexually Assaulted By A “Huge Star” At...
Nick Levine
12 Dec 2021
Health News
I Was Double Dosed On The Morning After Pill Because Of My Weight
When 26-year-old curve model Lucy Bennett broke a pandemic-imposed dry spell in her sex life, she was pretty delighted. But any initial excitement turned t
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Rose Stokes
News
A Young Woman Refugee On What It’s Actually Like To Cross T...
It was after midnight on Christmas Day 2018. Zainab Sadat Hossaini, who was then just 17 years old, stood on a freezing cold beach, likely near the village
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Vicky Spratt
Health News
The Great Morning After Pill Rip-Off
The high street giant Boots faces a backlash after putting emergency contraception (or the morning after pill) on offer for Black Friday. Instead of chargi
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Vicky Spratt
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Global News
How Egg Freezing & IVF Clinics Are Putting Women At Risk
There is increasing concern among the medical community that the high doses of hormones involved in fertility treatments – whether that is for IVF or egg
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Vicky Spratt
Work & Money
Pregnant Women Are Being Denied Mortgages Due To Change In Earnings
Pregnant women and new mothers who apply for mortgages with some of the UK’s biggest lenders are being declined because taking time out from work will ca
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Vicky Spratt
Unbothered
International Transgender Day of Remembrance And The Genocide Of ...
There is a genocide against Black transgender women happening. In a world in which transgender people are more visible than ever — gracing red carpets, s
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Aria Sa'id
News
Why Ubers Are Harder To Get & What This Means For Women’s S...
Ubers are harder to book than ever thanks to a lack of drivers, fuel shortage and increasing demand. And it’s making young women in the UK feel unsafe. &
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Music
#FreedBritney: Britney Spears Finally Released From 13-Year Conse...
Britney Spears has finally been released from her conservatorship after more than 13 years. On Friday, LA judge Brenda Penny ruled that the controversial l
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Nick Levine
Health News
The Shameful Reason Young Women Are Being Forced To Pay For The Pill
NHS contraception waiting times are driving women to buy oral hormonal contraception privately when they could be accessing it for free via the NHS where t
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Vicky Spratt
Global News
How The Pandemic Has Exacerbated The Threat Posed By Incels
In the wake of the Plymouth shootings in August 2021, experts from the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (
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Vicky Spratt
News
Women Report Being “Spiked With Needles” In UK Nightc...
Several police forces across the UK are investigating reports that women are being “spiked with injections” in clubs. Cities including Nottingh
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Matilda Martin
News
Toxic Environments, Nonexistent Support & Factories Of Trauma: It...
All this week on Refinery29 we are looking at the ongoing problem of sexual assault at UK universities and giving a platform to the students calling for ch
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Vicky Spratt
News
Women Aren’t “Forgetting” To Have Children. The...
Here I am. A 33-year-old woman with two degrees and something resembling “a career”, sitting at my laptop and trying to write this article for
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Vicky Spratt
Global News
California’s New Law Makes “Stealthing” A Civil...
Earlier this month, the California legislature unanimously passed a law that would make it illegal for someone to remove a condom during sex without their
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Alexandra Brodsky
Music
Emily Ratajkowski Accuses Robin Thicke Of Sexual Assault During V...
Editor’s Note: The following article includes details about an alleged sexual assault that may be triggering. Please proceed thoughtfully. Model and
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Nick Levine
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Global News
Sisters Uncut: The Police Do Not Protect Us & It’s Time To ...
On Wednesday 29th September 2021, five months after Wayne Couzens murdered Sarah Everard, Sisters Uncut gathered outside the Old Bailey where he was being
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Sisters Uncut
News
“The System Is Rotten To The Core”: What Will It Take...
It is haunting. We now know, because of details from her murderer’s sentencing hearing, that the abduction which led to Sarah Everard’s death happened
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Vicky Spratt
Unbothered
It’s Time For The U.S. To Do Right By Haiti
These past few months, Haiti has been in turmoil. After the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse on 7th July in Port-Au-Prince, southern Haiti was dev
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Emmanuela Douyon
Global News
Sabina Nessa’s Death Shows Nothing Has Changed
Twenty-eight-year-old teacher Sabina Nessa was found dead near the OneSpace community centre in Cator Park in Kidbrooke, southeast London last Saturday aft
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Vicky Spratt
News
I Thought I Had Miscarried & I Was In Handcuffs: Why We Need To S...
When she was just 23, Susie’s* life changed. She stood in court and was told that she was being sent to prison for six months. “I was in shock,” says
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Vicky Spratt
Wellness
Increase In Pregnant Women In Intensive Care Linked To “Ine...
Updated 22nd September New data published today found that 122 pregnant or recently pregnant women were admitted to intensive care in England with COVID-19
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Global News
Housing Is Less Affordable Than Ever For Young Women
In 2019 the Women’s Budget Group found that just as there is a gender pay gap in England, women also face a gender housing gap. After conducting national
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Vicky Spratt
Living
What A Travel Journalist Wants You To Know Before You Book Your N...
An ice-cold cocktail under a palm tree on a Caribbean beach was always a good idea. But after many of us have experienced a travel-free pandemic, it’s no
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Jennifer Weatherh...
Global News
The Hidden Strain Of Being A Midwife
Anna*, 39, has been a midwife for eight years. In March 2020 her profession was hit with its biggest crisis for decades. Ironically, she says, she feels li
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Ellie Broughton
Health News
Exclusive: Private At-Home HPV Testing Is A “Worrying”...
Private companies are selling HPV testing kits and vaccines online in what experts are calling a “worrying” emerging trend in the private secto
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Vicky Spratt
Global News
Trans Women Are Three Times As Likely To Die, Landmark Study Finds
Trans women are nearly three times as likely to die as cisgender women, a landmark study has found. The study published in the Lancet Diabetes & Endoc
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Nick Levine
News
My DNA Showed That My Father Was My Mother’s Rapist
Daisy (whose surname is omitted) made history when her DNA was used to get her birth father convicted of raping her mother in an unprecedented court case e
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Jenn Selby
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