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Gender inequality and sexism have huge health implications – from the staggering rate of male suicide, to the ongoing attacks on women’s sexual and reproductive rights. As a feminist health journalist, I’m particularly interested in those areas where feminism and wellbeing collide. I explore this in more detail on my women’s health blog, Hysterical Women.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...