Last weekend, I attended the Pink Ball with a handful of my university friends, hosted by Leeds-based charity Pink Events Ltd. This is the first time I’ve been to the annual(-ish) event, and I had a wonderful time! Pink Events is a family-run registered charity based in Leeds, UK. Established in 2005, this charity seeks …
For a potentially life-saving procedure, nobody really has a good word to say about smear tests. Maybe it’s the thought of someone having a good scrape around your lady bits or maybe it’s just the word ‘smear’ that puts people off. Either way, when I got my letter through the post advising me to book …
This week, controversial model Tess Holliday sent both pulses and tempers racing when she was unveiled as this month’s cover-model for Cosmo magazine. If you’ve never heard of Tess Holliday, you may be wondering why this is newsworthy. Another magazine, another model. Well, Tess Holliday is a plus size model, and I don’t mean plus-size …
So I’ve just got back off my summer holiday and I’m feeling a little… lethargic. A week in Cornwall in this lovely hot weather with plenty of scones, pasties, ciders and my dad’s portion sizes every evening. It’s been gorgeous, but while I do feel well-rested, in the same breath I feel ready to get …
The female body is a wonderful but very weird thing. The ins and outs of your menstrual cycle as covered in the biology textbooks is more than enough to demonstrate this, but unfortunately it’s not just the mechanics we have to contend with; your uterus has all kinds of tricks up its sleeve. When having …
This week marks Mental Health Awareness Week, and I’m putting my two cents in. My own experience with mental health problems hasn’t been without its bumps in the road, and there’s a part of me that wonders if the journey could’ve been smoother if I’d known that the space you occupy as a person with …
