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emma watson
Elsa - Frozen
Over the past couple of weeks the internet has been awash with campaigns, tweets and articles urging Disney to give Elsa a girlfriend in Frozen 2. The campaign comes from the growing frustration of a lack of diversity from the production company – instead giving us countless white, heterosexual relationships. Putting this type of pressure...
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For my birthday, I was given a hefty non-fiction book entitled ‘Warrior Women: 3000 Years of Courage and Heroism’ and approached it with caution. I know all too well that misogyny is still a major problem in Western society, despite the progress made towards bridging the inequality between men and women, but I’m still wary...
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I’m no extreme feminist, however in the last year or so Twitter has heightened my interest in feminism. After months of observing boys on Twitter making bold statements such as “girls shouldn’t be able to do this or that” or “girls with no tits are basically men”, I started to get a little fed up. I...
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Androgynous dressing is nothing new. Each season, designers attempt to change the face of fashion and yet more often than not we witness repetitive trend evolution as apposed to fresh new styles, as old classics are given a new lease of life and reinvented for another year. Despite my pessimistic tone I am all for...
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‘The Bling Ring’ may seem like a vaguely dubious title, until you see the credentials. Written by successful American journalist Nancy Jo Sales of ‘Vanity Fair’ and ‘Harper’s Bazaar’ notoriety, the book was an expansion on her award winning magazine feature ‘The Suspects Wore Louboutins’ from 2010. Published last month by Harper Collins, the book...
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You could say that it all started with “Juno”. In 2007 Jason Reitman directed an off beat coming of age tale in which a dry witted, music loving teenager falls pregnant with her adorable but slightly hopeless boyfriend’s baby. Enter the need in our lives for quirky comedies about loveable characters that are usually younger...
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When deciding how to sum up the theme of this post, there was only one phrase that came to mind – what goes around, comes back around. Often used in a negative light, we at MSL have been thinking about how this infamous quote is actually quite positive when applied to certain styles and trends...
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