“It’s an amazing gift. The BEST gift”. This is how actress Rebel Wilson described surrogacy in an Instagram post announcing the birth of her baby earlier this week. What Wilson…
England’s latest policy review puts Women’s health and safety on the line. Recent statements from Northern Irish Health Minister Robin Swann are just another reminder that our society still has…
We’ve all sat through that one painfully awkward sex education lesson, blushing and suppressing giggles as our friend fumbles with a condom stretched over a phallic piece of fruit or…
As if accessing contraception could be any more of a drag, on the 6th of February, there was a declared shortage regarding a number of pills and injectable contraceptives. With…
There are many conditions and illnesses that affect women in particular, which are significant, but often go unnoticed. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affects approximately one in five people in the…
According to a recent BBC article, around three million women across the UK have not attended their NHS-recommended smear test. A 2017 survey found that 35 per cent of women…
Premenstrual syndrome, commonly referred to as PMS, is the kind of thing that everyone should’ve been taught about in sex-ed but instead, we were given a couple of tampons and…
Commercial surrogacy: A global market for babies?
“It’s an amazing gift. The BEST gift”. This is how actress Rebel Wilson described surrogacy in an Instagram post announcing the birth of her baby earlier this week. What Wilson…
Why are periods still not taken seriously?
England’s latest policy review puts Women’s health and safety on the line. Recent statements from Northern Irish Health Minister Robin Swann are just another reminder that our society still has…
The pill: past and present
2021 marks 60 years since the pill was first made available to women in the UK. It is fair to say that the pill has changed our society and women’s…
Writer Flo Perry talks stigma, sexpectations and feminist sex
We’ve all sat through that one painfully awkward sex education lesson, blushing and suppressing giggles as our friend fumbles with a condom stretched over a phallic piece of fruit or…
The contraception shortage endemic isn’t being taken seriously
As if accessing contraception could be any more of a drag, on the 6th of February, there was a declared shortage regarding a number of pills and injectable contraceptives. With…
Spotlight on women’s health: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
There are many conditions and illnesses that affect women in particular, which are significant, but often go unnoticed. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affects approximately one in five people in the…
Demystifying smear tests: there is no reason to be embarrassed
According to a recent BBC article, around three million women across the UK have not attended their NHS-recommended smear test. A 2017 survey found that 35 per cent of women…
Bloody Hell: a discussion of PMS and what it really means
Premenstrual syndrome, commonly referred to as PMS, is the kind of thing that everyone should’ve been taught about in sex-ed but instead, we were given a couple of tampons and…