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#ihadamiscarriage
One in six women who fall pregnant will suffer a miscarriage up to 24 weeks and one in 100 will endure traumatic recurrent infant loss. Yet despite the frequency, miscarriage is still very much a taboo subject. Shrouded in silence and even shame; women are left alone with the emptiness, unable to feel they can voice...
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rainbow hair
Sedating our personalities has always been a necessity in the business world; making sure our social media is ‘clean’ and private, covering our tattoos and piercings, and conforming to the fashion norms. Brightly coloured hair, in particular, is a big disadvantage in many industries. Experimenting with hair colours has been an increasingly popular form of...
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where's the love
It was in 2003 that The Black Eyed Peas released ‘Where Is The Love?’ a song that shot straight to number 1 in 13 different countries; the power of the song at the time was palpable, standing out as a welcome relief from the trivial messages of partying, drink and sex that flooded popular music....
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I’m a jack of many interests and a master of none. Greek mythology is one of the many, but my knowledge mostly comes from trawling through Wikipedia pages for days on end. But even a rudimentary reading of the complex and devious world of the Greek gods reveals how much of our basic culture came...
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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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If I asked you to list ten things you like about yourself and ten things you don’t, what list would you finish first? We live in a world of perfection, well, false perfection. Instagram, magazines, movies, celebrities, the list is endless when it comes to seeing what we ‘should’ aspire to look like, act like,...
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I almost jumped with excitement when I heard that Hollywood was planning another modern day renewal of a Shakespeare classic. My all-time favourite film has to be Baz Luhrman’s Romeo + Juliet; a dystopian, heady array of clashing neon lights and Hawaiian shirts. Luhrman’s take on the classic was a beautiful alternative to archetypal Shakespeare yet the most accurate...
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blueberries
It seems in the modern world we live in, our concept of what is deemed as healthy can become easily conflicted. There’s not a day goes by that you don’t see one ridiculous article or another claiming that we should eat more of one food type and then none of others. As if eating solely one...
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You may have seen the video that has recently gone viral popping up all over your social media profiles and for once it’s a viral video with an actual message – a message about love, all kinds of love. When people talk about love most people imagine the love they are accustomed to; how could...
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As you may of read, there has been a lot of controversy surrounding The Sun’s Page 3 recently. In case you haven’t heard, rumours went round suggesting Page 3 will no longer contain images of glamour models as they have done for the past 45 years. However this was proven wrong last Thursday when The...
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