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“All the world’s a stage”, and the internet makes it worse

“All the world’s a stage”, and the internet makes it worse

The internet has a new obsession: packing women into neat, labelled boxes based on their aesthetics. What are, then, the consequences of the commodification of women?
Lean In: a satire

Lean In: a satire

Buckle up: the girl you love to hate spills her secrets on how to have it all.
Shoe throwing and tantrums may be unprofessional, but I’m not sure I care

Shoe throwing and tantrums may be unprofessional, but I’m not sure I care

After Cardi B threw her shoe at a fashion party she faced much criticism for her lack of ‘chill’, Lola Byam Shaw argues this as well as the responses to Serena Williams’ arguments with an umpire reveal the sexism of the pressure on women to be easygoing.

I am an Essex girl and proud

After a petition to get ‘Essex Girl’ removed from the Oxford English Dictionary, editor-in-chief Jennifer Sterne argues why such stereotyping is so damaging

Gang stalk and assault student on Oxford Road

The 20-year-old female student was followed for over a mile and assaulted by a gang ‘like animals stalking their prey’