If men had to deal with this, it would be cured by now…endometriosis and adenomyosis
Last year, I found out I was living with deep infiltrating endometriosis and adenomyosis, which...
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Tag: Women
It’s just not cricket: sexism in sport
As you may have already noticed, I like to big up women who play sport. Not only for potential spectators of all genders, but more specifically in the hope that it will encourage other women and girls to have a bash. After all,...
Read MoreWomen take to the stage at Science in the City festival
Dr Annie Keane writes for Northern Soul about some of the events showcasing women in science taking place at Manchester’s Science in the City Festival. It’s incredible to think that, even today, women are still severely...
Read MoreThe Price of Periods: why do homeless women have to beg for tampons?
Ah, periods. Your insides feel like they are being scraped away with a spoon, like egg from a shell, and there’s this weird dragging sensation in your womb. I spend most of the time in the bath or curled up on the sofa with a...
Read MoreIn Defence of Women Who Don’t Want Children
I am pissed off. Not only am I afflicted with the chapped lips FROM HELL (my already prominent lips have swelled up in different places and cracked so terribly that I look like one of those women with a botched lip job, and I’ve...
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