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Should We Still use the b word?

"How do you label yourself and what does that mean?" It's a conversation I hear a lot in various circles.

Why stephen fry?

We all need friends. People who give us a shoulder to cry on, laugh at our jokes, sympathise with our problems.

is the smear just PAP?

To be a woman in this day and age it seems is to be constantly poked and prodded. Or to request to be poked and prodded and denied. Even though few women look forward to their smear test, so you'd think a request for a smear would either be welcomed (welcome to the prodding and poking era of your life!) or raise suspicion that something must seem very wrong.

Can we embrace body positivity?

I frequently find myself writing about the same thing here. It might be shooting myself in the foot to reveal this to you. Obviously I'm always writing something that is vaguely linked to feminism - that's not the pattern. But what repeatedly comes up is body acceptance and how some companies (Dove) try to use it to create positive campaigns that peculiarly end up portraying women as kind of silly.

Can we make ageing normcore?

Sometimes a word or phrase (or, of course, set of initials for when you tire of forming words - YOLO) you haven't seen before begins to pop up everywhere. You notice it a couple of times but think it unimportant. Then it pops up more and you start to wonder what it is. But, like, not enough to Google it or anything.