Alessia Galatini watches Netflix’s recent adaptation of L.M. Montgomery’s 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables and finds it takes a stand on what it means to be a good parent...
People who have experienced sexual violence may find childbirth particularly traumatic. Julie Xuan argues that healthcare providers must reach out to understand these patients better...
From the experiences of young black women to depression in men via the armed forces and gendered toys, this is the first round-up of theatre reviews from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015 from Megan Stodel...
I can never get you clean enough
In slippered morning manic
Indulging the precarious
We straddle porcelain
Me and the rabbit
Straining necks to check
Meringue stiff stucco
Egg white whiskered
This is not the view we wished for
A rusty plug holed whore
My Hitchcock retrospective
Dizzy with psychobabble
Down there all is wet and slick
Loose gloop staining all
For a second balance falters
Imagine the catastrophe
Alone and foetally deprived
Split skull - bleeding into tap
Flushed away with the coffee dregs
Metallic stopper
Silenced.
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This is a guest post by Charlie Smoke. Charlie is a 23-year-old writer based in North London; he is currently writing his first novel.
There is a silent epidem...
Tori Amos' disturbing personal account of being raped has functioned as "a piece of trauma art" for many of her fans who have experienced abuse and continues to serve as a reassuring voice speaking out over the usual victim blaming noise
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