‘Being a Slut Really Means You Are Untouchable’: On Shame, Power and the Reclamation of Words
‘But it Couldn’t Possibly Happen Here!’: A Rebuttal Against Comfortable Thinking After Roe v Wade
This current government don’t see codifying reproductive rights into law as important. After all, when you have potential future PM Liz Truss spouting transphobic statements and reducing women to merely ‘people with cervixes’, it’s obvious how little importance the current government places on any person who has a uterus and requires medical assistance or an identity beyond their reproductive organs…
Violence is Never the Answer Unless Women are the Question: What 2022 Has Taught Us So Far
It is scarcely open to doubt that the system will punish those that lack the money and resources to defend themselves, namely women of colour, lower-class people and transgender men. Furthermore, race and wealth will always override policy…
‘I Wasn’t Ready’: Mourning Getting an Abortion While Wanting to be a Mother
I made an appointment and pretended that I wasn’t growing something inside me. I called it a parasite and cursed the ferocious hunger within to cancel the appointment and grow up quicker. Becoming attached to the cluster of cells was futile, though. It wasn’t our time yet…
Why it’s Time to End Malta’s Century-Long Abortion Ban
There are still twenty-four countries that do not allow abortions under any circumstances. Among those twenty-four countries are the Philippines, Jamaica, Egypt, Iraq and Malta. One thing that sets Malta apart from other countries is that it is part of the European Union: a union that takes pride in its health care and equality…