The Black Hair Tax: No Breaks for Black Women Who Want to Avoid Breakage
‘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…
‘I Still Feel the Need to Apologise for My Body’: How Experimenting with Gender Has Taught Me the Universal Nature of Fatphobia
I turn sixteen and discover gender nonconformity. This doesn’t really change how I am outwardly perceived. That is, both feminine and fat. This made my sense of self-perception all the more complicated. For a moment, I felt free. Unfettered by the restraints of the gender binary and the dysphoria of never being ‘woman’ enough to truly identify with my physicality. And then I learnt about skinny-twinklike-androgyny…