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Entertainment

America’s Next Top Model is Progressive AF

July 16, 2026

I’m a big fan of trashy TV. For a long time, my favourite programme was The Only Way Is Essex; and my idea of a banging weekend is binge watching Pretty Little Liars and Gossip Girl in my pyjamas. Sure, I love a good documentary as much as the next …

Entertainment

#WriteNow with Penguin Random House: Boosting Underrepresented Voices in Publishing

July 14, 2026

If you’re an unpublished author from an LGBTQ+, BAME, disabled or socio-economically marginalised background, Penguin Random House want to hear your stories. Publishing giants in the UK, PRH last year launched the #WriteNow initiative to connect with underrepresented voices in the publishing industry. They offered authors an exclusive opportunity to …

Entertainment

Accio Diversity: Retroactive Representation in Harry Potter

July 06, 2026

Over the last twenty years I have been certain that I loved Harry Potter, but of late JK Rowling has insisted on complicating our relationship. Recently I have had to mute her on Twitter so clearly the woman who I once thought could do no wrong is testing my patience. …

Activism

The Other L Word

April 27, 2026

The first time I ever kissed another girl in a bar I saw a bright light. Unfortunately it wasn’t a visual representation of my own lesbianism dawning upon me; they were camera flashes. Men had decided that my expression of my sexuality needed to be documented for their own future …