Resolutions and Self-Esteem

Jo Swinson started campaigning on the issue of body image anxiety long before she entered government. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/dec/27/women-weight-minister-jo-swinson Well, it’s January...

If the shoe fits…?

KORS Michael Kors Kids Bianca Shoe (Toddler/Youth) http://www.zappos.com/multiview/7902328/330416 Recently there has been a growing trend in the fashion world to make our young girls more fashionable. And by more fashionable that means overly sexualizing them and...

The Cost of Sanitary Protection in India

Arunachalam Muruganantham (centre) and the machine he invented to make sanitary towels. Photograph: Jayaashree Industries Once every two months or so I find myself standing in the pharmacy glaring resentfully at the huge array of sanitary products available and...

Girls, diets, books, authors, and responsibility.

Let me preface this by saying that I am a writer myself, and I don’t believe in censorship, but in the freedom to write what you wish. ¬†Writers write for many reasons: because we’re obsessed with it, because we want fame and notoriety, because...

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