Period Pain: Saying ‘No’ to Normal
Day to day, most of us put up with small health worries without paying them much attention. Whether it’s getting an intermittent…
By Sarah Farrell
Watching The News in the Ladies Changing Room
I don’t really know why I pay for a gym membership. My workout routine consists of a 20-minute cycle while I watch…
By Lucy Harbron
To Do: Be Unproductive
I can’t pinpoint exactly when the change happened: when a ‘good day’ came to be measured by productivity levels instead of some…
By Molly Simpson
On Rising
A year and a half ago, I did not know how to bake. I also did not know that I had something…
By Sarah Cooke
Taking Sides
My memories of my late Popo hang in a deafening silence. They come to me not as moving frames, but as vivid…
By Kat Nugent
Eco-Anxiety
A new phenomenon is hitting the mental health space. More and more people – especially millennials and Gen Zs – are saying they…
By Emily Leary
In My Blood
These summers in the countryside of Denmark, once so breathlessly long and sticky – sand in my shoes constantly, hair slick with…
By Camilla Ackley
M.E. and I
I’d like to start off by providing some precise statistics on my illness; the date of my diagnosis, the different medications and…
By Zoe Crombie
On Florence Welch, Vulnerability, and Love
It will always be difficult for me to write about Florence Welch. It requires vulnerability on my part, to speak of the…
By Sharmane Tan
Homesick
“You want to get out while you can pet” my Mam had told me when I first announced my university offers. I…
By Jessica Adams
Digital Dancer
You would have to twist it out of me, but I could talk about dance until the end of time. As it…
By Shelby Traynor
Breaststroke in Tesco
Toes to the wall behind and fingers to the wall ahead. Palms down and splayed thumbs whispering to the touch. To pull…
By Chloe Weare
Are We Ignoring Women’s Pain?
“Calm down dear”: the age-old phrase used to put us women back in our boxes, back in our kitchens, back on our…
By Eleanor Toms
It Doesn’t Spark Joy, But It Does Spark Feeling
It took five attempts before I gave in. I hung everything back up, hid my old tshirts again, and slammed my wardrobe…
By Lucy Harbron
Learning to Lose
I’ve never been very good at losing things. Or should I say, I’m perfectly apt at losing them, but I’ve never been…
By Faith Newcombe
The Carbon Ceiling
We are on the cusp of a newfound environmentalism. Across the globe protestors and activists are demanding government action against climate change,…
By Nuala Burnett