News: Graun commenters not so open-minded
The Guardian. Bastion of modernity and progressive thinking. Champion of (relatively) free speech – see the Comment is Free section. Unashamedly not The Sun, with its reading age of about eight. (Sorry if you’re a Sun reader and don’t know what ‘unashamedly’ means. Look it up.) What you may not also know about the Guardian […]
Whoa, it’s Whohaha!
Anyone who’s read Lenny Letter would be forgiven for thinking that the way forward in female comedy is to start a website. It’s worked amazingly well for Lena Dunham – Lenny Letter currently has around half a million subscribers. Elizabeth Banks, who you may remember from 30 Rock and Modern Family, has launched her own […]
Oops, I made a boob
You know I was talking about becoming really aware of my own boobs? Turns out I’m one of those women who’s been stubbornly wearing the wrong bra size for years. One of my besties used to be a bra fitter. She’s relentlessly told me, ever since she started there, that I was in the wrong […]
Hello, kitty…
Ewa Szypula wants a cat. She gets more than she’d bargained for. Wandering around Paris one day, and looking for a sunny terrace to sit on, my friend and I stumbled upon a big café sign featuring a cat. We had found our way to one of Paris’s several ‘cat cafés’. Inside, customers sip their coffees […]
Coming soon: Sausage Party
I’m sure all of us have, at some point in our lives, been drunkenly eating a takeaway and suddenly wondered: “Does food know that it’s going to be eaten?” That alcohol-fuelled train of thought is the main premise of Sausage Party. Now, this movie may be animated but it’s definitely not for kids. For starters, […]
Suffragette Roulette: a new level of gaming realism
It’s International Women’s Day! Yay! Are you doing anything special to celebrate? Why not have a go at smashing a digital glass ceiling? We women make up close as damn it to half the world’s population. So why is it that we only represent a fifth of politicians? Womankind Worldwide is giving us all the […]
