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“If you don’t like the idea of students having to sell sex, we have a suggestion for you! Fight for cheaper rents, the return of grants, and higher

Sitting by the pool with a group of friends, my crush spits on my face. As a 16-year-old who watches too many Jesse McCartney film clips, he meets all my c

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

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Charlie Craggs (@charlie_craggs) I’m Charlie Craggs, the author of To My Trans Sisters – an anthology of e

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

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 (

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

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

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

Did you follow the government’s annual get-together at Conservative Party Conference? No? Let me fill you in. Boris Johnson convened his mostly male cabi

On Wednesday 29th September 2021, five months after Wayne Couzens murdered Sarah Everard, Sisters Uncut gathered outside the Old Bailey where he was being

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

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

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

Last Wednesday, Texas law Senate Bill 8 restricting abortion went into effect. That evening, in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court refused to block the law;

Renting privately in London usually means moving more often than you want to, from one underwhelming flat to another, handing over around 40% of your incom

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

It was the first time I’d spoken up.  I’d sat in seminars for five weeks at university, putting my head down whenever the tutor made eye contact,