A Letter To My Teenage Self: “What would she think? …

TW: Self-harm, mental health. What would she think? That girl. The one who spent hours on Tumblr, creating a mood…

London Is Lonely…Sometimes

I’ve lived in London for almost four years. I moved here after a stint of travelling post-university, which saw me…

Taylor Swift & The Case For Revisiting Old Relationships

*TW: Some references to abuse Written by Alanna Duffield As if the uncharacteristically beautiful autumn we’re having here in the…

us the apologies and explanations we so desperately want in order to move on and make sense of heartbreak and abuse. But this does not make us powerless. Any one of us is capable of rewriting the narrative on our past loves, and you don’t need to be a poet or a songwriter to do it. 

GRL Talk with Lily O’Farrell: On Getting To Know …

You’ve probably come across Lily O’Farrell’s work on Instagram before, under her account’s name of @vulgadrawings, and now the artist…

Why Women Are Always Blamed For The Violence Men Perpetrate …

He had “a really bad day.”  And with that statement, the shooter of eight people was exonerated. I had a…

TikTok Is Letting Girls ‘Like Things’ Unapologetically

Practically everything that teenage girls like has become a source of popular anger. Growing up in the 2010s, any mainstream…

How Girls Coming From Low-Income Households & Working-Class Backgrounds, Like Me, …

I grew up as a proud working-class girl in an old Welsh quarry village in North Wales. Like many of…