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‘There is No Singular Selfhood’: What Trad Wives Have Taught Me About Defining Womanhood
Beauty & Lifestyle Megan Willis Beauty & Lifestyle Megan Willis

‘There is No Singular Selfhood’: What Trad Wives Have Taught Me About Defining Womanhood

Deep into an Instagram scroll, I wait patiently for the punchline in the video ‘Five ways to serve your husband’. I realise as I watch that there may be no punchline here at all, just genuine advice. Cook for him. Raise his children. Dress to respect him. Never nag. Obey him. I am on trad wife social media again…

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‘What is the Cost of Our Self-Expression?’: Why Buying Fast Fashion is Anti-Feminist
Beauty & Lifestyle Megan Willis Beauty & Lifestyle Megan Willis

‘What is the Cost of Our Self-Expression?’: Why Buying Fast Fashion is Anti-Feminist

In harnessing the power of clothing in the face of oppression, we have forgotten about the people who make our clothes, the majority of whom are women of colour trapped in the cycle of poverty. What feels like a feminist act – whether it’s buying clothing with our earned incomes or ‘treating ourselves’ – may in fact be anti-feminist...

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