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Happy International Women’s Day 2021: Celebrate, Champion and #ChooseToChallenge
"The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organisation but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights." - Gloria Steinem, journalist and activist. Happy International Women's Day! Today, and throughout...
New Year, New Resolutions, New Hope
Okay, so we’re ten days into 2021! How’s it been for you? Weird? Sad? Humbling? Positive? Discombobulating? All of those? Me too. It’s a surreal time. And one that I thought worth documenting each day in tiny, mini tidbits that sum up my well, thoughts for the...
Embracing the Human Library, Enhancing the Human Experience, Encouraging Empathy
The Human Library, which this year celebrates its 20th anniversary, allows people to volunteer as 'books’ to interact with ‘readers’ in 30-minute conversations. Chit-chat, small talk, surface-level nattering — do you love it or loathe it? Do you often just want...
the end of AN era?
Do we ever reach the end of an era? Or are we just beginning a new one? I notice how this may seem entirely meaningless and insignificant when we are going through a global pandemic. And it is. My intention for writing here is not to trivialise the scary and strange...
What I’ve learnt about chasing dreams
I've never really had just one dream. But there's always been several things that I've loved to do: performing, reading, writing, exploring, music, analysing, asking questions. Always. Ever since I was a child. Along the way, as I've tried to navigate 'adulthood',...
Mental Health Of Women, Parents and Young People Hit Worst in Pandemic, Lancet Psychiatry study says
The Covid-19 pandemic is having the greatest detrimental impact on the mental health of women, parents of under-fives and young people aged between 18-to-24-years old, a study by researchers at The University of Manchester, King’s College London and the National...
Cumberlege Review calls for Immediate reforms to improve women’s healthcare
The long-awaited Cumberlege review, which shines a much-needed light on women’s health, suffering and medical treatment, has been published. It reveals how women’s lives have been ruined by three key health scandals: The hormone pregnancy test Primidos, epilepsy and...
Redefining What Success Really Is
What does success really mean? It’s an odd word, success. Look it up in the dictionary and you’ll find success described as “the accomplishment of an aim or purpose”. Now, factually, I believe that. I agree. But dig a level deeper behind that definition and I see...
Black Lives Matter: Creating Change Is A Priority For ALL Of US
Together with so many people around the world, I have been watching and reading about the protests over the death of George Floyd. The outrage and despair continue as the lives of so many black people have been cruelly taken. Lives including Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna...
Rape Conviction Rate in Sweden Increases by 75%
After a major change in the law in Sweden two years ago, the country’s rape conviction has risen by 75%, with calls now urging others countries to undertake similar legal reforms. In 2018, the Scandinavian country changed its law on rape to sex without consent....