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Seating Arrangements – from Let Me Know When You’re Home: Stories of Female Friendship
Read a short story by Sara Sherwood, following old friends at a dinner party. and originally published in Let Me Know When You're Home. Read More
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The Female
To celebrate International Women's Day 2016, we shared a piece by Cosmo Blog Award-shortlisted The London Ladybird, about what we have to celebrate – and conquer. Read More
7 years ago
Femininity As We Taught It
Molly Alessandra Cooper on unlearning all the rules we taught each other as teenagers, from what to shave (everything) to the acceptable kind of tampon to use. Read More
7 years ago
Protest and Energy: Women’s March London
On 20.01.17, we joined the Women's March in London. Here we talk about its energy, its purpose, and what comes next, according to those who were there. Read More
7 years ago
Sister Roar
Jaspreet Sangha brings us a powerful piece of poetry about using our voice to claim the space that we deserve. Read More
7 years ago
Reclaiming Shakespeare: To She or Not To She
When Emma Bentley realised that, as a young woman in theatre, she would forever be deemed unsuitable for a vast range of roles simply because she was a girl, she went ahead and created her own role in To She or Not To She. Read More
8 years ago
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