As women we are all in one way or another, victim to the same structure that capitalises off our insecurities, and grows more monstrously powerful by ensuring we don’t only hate ourselves, but each other too.

I am 24 when I read Darcey Steinke’s Suicide Blonde for the first time. A matter of months have passed since then and I cannot stop thinking about this book. I feel compelled to draw my thoughts together and formulate a wider meaning, to adequately explain the mastery of this novel and why it has such a lasting impact, to explore how it encapsulates the female experience so truthfully.

After googling how to cure writer’s block and being met with results essentially telling me to get a grip and type, I began to wonder why I was so eager to create a piece of written work if I had nothing to say?

Capri pants are cropping up everywhere this year. From Pinterest boards to celebrity style; from countless runways to the depoppers creating and selling their own designs, 3/4 lengths have come to the fore of fashion despite their contentious status…

Headphones. The ubiquitous trend of 2023 has taken over my life. Not only am I unable to leave the house without them (despite their taking up vital bag space), but once I have succeeded in leaving my hobbit hole, they are an inescapable sight…

In March this year, two of the most incredible debut novels I have read were published, In Memoriam by Alice Winn, and Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin. Last month, both books were shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2023, an award created for exceptional debut novels voted for solely by booksellers.

If you want a classy night filled with beautiful, intricate, sometimes highfalutin soliloquies in Shakespearean tongue, you may want to give this one a miss. Although, plied with half a bottle of Jim Beam and five pints of Birra Moretti, there will certainly be one actor whose language you struggle to understand…

Spotted moving from shoulder to shoulder of celebrities like Kiera Knightly to Emily Ratajkowski into the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2021, the iconic Daunt Books tote has made quite the appearance since it’s inception in 2005, courtesy of re-wrap founder, Janjri Trivedi.

I have a can of coke everyday. When did this start? Not a clue - but definitely due to two factors: a.) they are half price at my place of work, and b.) because of my place of work. After all, as their 1963 slogan suggests, “things go better with coke”, and I need all the ‘better’ I can get considering the largest aspect of my job is customer service (no offence general public).

It would be impossible not to know a thing about Greta Gerwig’s latest masterpiece, Barbie before going to view it. Whilst I was eager to make my own judgements about the film, I couldn’t help but read over 10 different reviews. I tried to refrain myself, I really did. In the media, the main discussion surrounding the film seems to be based on whether or not the film is ‘feminist’ - and if it is, is it feminist enough?

After weeks of planning, aligning dates and times and finally booking an Air B&B, I had arrived on what I once hoped would become an annual surf trip in Cornwall. I had never surfed before, and can still say weeks later, I have never surfed.

Yesterday I downloaded Threads, Instagram’s latest social media app going head-to-head with Twitter.

This year Spain introduced menstrual leave by law joining Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, South Korea and Zambia. Here are my thoughts on why the UK should follow suit. Period.