For this year’s #SmearForSmear (Cervical Cancer Prevention) Week I again worked with Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust on a couple of pieces, for both The i and Stylist. The first explores the myths and stigma that still surround HPV – the virus that causes the majority of cervical cancer cases – while the second looks at […]
The back end of 2019 was a quieter period for me, at least in terms of journalism. In November I visited the world’s first Vagina Museum on behalf of Refinery29. Then, between Christmas and New Year they asked me to investigate the many ways that having a period can affect your sleep, for their sleep-themed […]
As you might have noticed from recent posts, I’ve been doing a lot of work for The i newspaper lately, with a focus as always on women’s health stories and health inequalities. In early August I started researching and writing a long-read for them on sex and gender differences in dementia research, risk, diagnosis and […]
At the end of September, The British Heart Foundation published an important report, Bias and Biology, looking at the way biological differences and unconscious biases impact on the way women are treated during and after having a heart attack. It’s a problem that’s killed 8000 women in a decade, and ties in with so much […]
Well, September’s just flown by, hasn’t it? Since my last update, back in August, I’ve turned 30, run my first half marathon, and sunk my teeth into some fascinating subjects – including cat cloning, heart attacks, dementia, arthritis, transgender hormone therapy, and vaginal fluid transplants. In July I was one of the first journalists to […]
These days I’ve heard and written about enough women’s health horror stories that not much shocks me anymore. But I was pretty horrified to hear about the experiences of Fiona Anderson and Kerry Thompson – two disabled women who’ve spent years fighting to be given cervical screening (smear) tests at their local GP surgeries. It […]
July saw me back at Google Arts & Culture, working with them on a couple of projects – including one with Somerset House, which explores their Summer 2019 programme of exhibitions, projects and events celebrating immigration, diversity, identity, and black creativity. I also wrote features for both Patient and Refinery29, respectively exploring new mums’ contraceptive […]
It’s been a particularly busy month since my last update, and I’m looking forward to a much-needed holiday over the next week. Throughout July I’ve been working again with Google Arts & Culture on two projects which will be launching in the next few weeks and months. I’ve also worked on a couple of newsier […]
Cervical Screening Awareness Week fell in June, and I was pleasantly surprised to see Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust raising awareness of the potential side effects of the procedures used to treat cervical cell changes. While these treatments are extremely effective in preventing cell abnormalities from developing into cervical cancer, in the most extreme cases – […]
