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Review: Chanya Button's 'Vita and Virginia'

I’m still trying to absorb it. It felt so odd, intrusive, illusionary to see this (beautiful, though wrongly and overly beautified in many ways) image of these people — I’ve spent so many hours considering them, thinking of them, imagining, evoking.

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Resources for the Poor

Millennials are burnt out, in shitty underpaid jobs and many of us still trying to crawl out of generational poverty. Here are some straight-up useful resources for those who are short on cash.

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Size in Sustainable Fashion

If we are truly committed to sustainability, it needs to be accessible for all, or else fast fashion will retain its hold on those of us who don’t fit slow fashion’s desired consumer template. 

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How to Sext

Anyway here’s our list of tried and true (well, mostly) suggestions — from the (s)experts at Boshemia.

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Review: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

If The Handmaid’s Tale explored the concept of freedom and freewill, The Testaments explores accountability. Each time one of the characters in this book are faced with a choice between bravery and self-preservation, the reader must ask what they would do with that choice.

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Sexual Health Horoscopes

It’s Sexual Health Week, which means you should probably be thinking about booking your next trip to the clinic or ordering your free online testing kit, and having open and honest conversations with your partners about your sex life. While these are very important things to be thinking about (and Googling), it’s also sometimes important to take anonymous advice from someone who knows nothing about your life (or, indeed, about astrology).

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The great misunderstanding of HIV/AIDS

There is still a stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS that is accepted and shared widely in the general public. The lack of education and awareness on this means that our modern society remains a toxic place for people who are HIV positive.

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Modern Cat Lady: A Conversation with The Purrisian

Boshemia designer and newly-Parisian-by-adoption Lauren sat down for a discussion with Mathilde Maire, better known as The Purrisian. Mathilde is a self-defined ‘crazy cat lady’ and book-hoarding librarian who is an up-and-coming illustrator in based in Paris.

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The Problem with Unrequited Love

There’s no doubt that rejection is painful. We can all recall the desolation of unrequited love, but why are we so accepting of men who refuse to accept that the end is really the end? 

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Review: Girl, Woman, Other

When it comes to human issues, I dislike statistics. They can easily be manipulated to support a particular bias. Facts can be entirely invented and published online as truth. This is why stories are so important. Girl, Woman, Other does this in a way that isn’t boring or biased. The book’s eclectic characters are fleshed out, flawed, sometimes brutal, always independent. 

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Unconditional Roots

I come from a large British family, and while I cannot say that the idea of family bonds is not important, it is often with a focus on independence from each other, rather than connecting as a unit. A little over two years ago I made the decision to move to Australia to be with my partner. The experience has certainly cracked open my own perceptions of family and the anchors we need in life to feel connected.

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Um… wtf was that, Boris?

Boris Johnson gave a speech at 18:00 outside Downing Street that appeared to be announcing nothing, leaving everyone asking: What the fuck was that!? Allow me to tell you what the fuck that was.

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