What 'Passing' In The Transgender Community Really Means
If you look up the word 'passing' it doesn't lead to many positive statements. Rather, it alludes to something fleeting, something superficial, something only lasting a short time. But in the community...
View ArticleI Was Dumped By Text... And It Was Perfect
As you might well have heard by now, Perrie Edwards has confirmed that Zayn Malik did in fact end their four-year relationship via text (despite his claims in The Fader, last year, that that’s not how...
View ArticleThe Day-To-Day Life Of A Mother In Syria's War-Torn Aleppo
Photo: Halil Fidan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.In the corner of Afraa’s living room in Aleppo, her children whisper secrets to the dolls they’ve cut from scrap paper. Each is named after one of their...
View ArticleThe Best Embellished Leather On Instagram
This season, the trusty leather jacket has had a facelift. The classic biker has been replaced by its bolder, brighter and much cooler older sister: the embellished leather jacket. No longer just...
View ArticleIs This The New Great British Bake Off Presenter?
Illustration by Isabel Castillo Guijarro.The rumour mill is in overdrive about who will host The Great British Bake Off 2.0 when it moves to Channel 4 and loses its current presenters Mel and Sue.Last...
View ArticleWhy Obese Women Have "Biologically Older" Babies
Artwork by Tristan Offit. It's well established that being overweight during pregnancy can have negative consequences for both a woman's own health and that of her baby. The NHS advises women to lose...
View ArticleBritish Girl, 15, Found Guilty Of Double Murder
Picture: Chris Radburn PA Archive/Press Association ImagesA 15-year-old girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been found guilty of murdering a mother and her daughter.According to the BBC,...
View ArticleGal Gadot: "If I Want Something, I Can Get It Myself"
It is hard not to be a little bit jealous of Gal Gadot.In the same instant that I am mentally chastising myself for being that girl, the Keeping Up With the Joneses star flops into a chair, swings her...
View ArticleWhy Amanda Seyfried Is "Never Getting Off" Of Her OCD Medication
It's become commonplace to casually or jokingly say that you "have OCD" as a shorthand for wanting to be organised, but as Amanda Seyfried knows, the realities of having obsessive compulsive disorder...
View ArticleEven Doctors & Nurses Believe The Full Moon Brings Chaos
Throughout human history, people have thrown around a lot of crazy ideas about the moon. Whether you were afflicted with a mental illness, menstruation, or werewolves, you could safely blame the moon...
View ArticleThese Tattoo Before-&-Afters Will Blow Your Mind
Photo: If you have ink on your wrist that serves as nothing more than the memory of a boozy night, an S.O. or BFF tattoo dedicated to someone you no longer speak with, or lyrics from a song you only...
View ArticleThe Problem With This Infuriating Weight Watchers Campaign
Weight Watchers' new ad campaign, WWBlack, backfired almost instantaneously after it rolled out in Australia and New Zealand last week.The campaign, which puts the focus on sex, came with an early gift...
View ArticleMichelle Obama Wore A Chainmail Versace Gown To Her Final State Dinner
First Lady Michelle Obama is an icon for her speeches, her work promoting education for young girls, and of course, her fashion. At every event, the Let Girls Learn founder breaks the internet with her...
View ArticleThe History Of Our Emotions, Explained By An Expert
Alexander MedelLadybeard magazine is a UK print magazine that takes the form of a glossy magazine, but revolutionises the content, working in themed issues to open up old topics to vital new...
View ArticlePhotographers Show & Tell Their Favourite Summer Memory (NSFW)
For this month's Photo Album, we asked some of our favourite photographers to send in pictures of their summer memories.Heat prickling on your bare back, the warm glow of long afternoons spent in good...
View ArticleThe New Indian Film Addressing The Country's Rape Problem
Photo: Lucas Oleniuk/Toronto Star/Getty Images.Deepa Mehta is a Punjabi-Canadian filmmaker most famous for her 2012 adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel, Midnight's Children. Along with that, she's...
View ArticleThis Celebrity Hair Stylist Shares Her Afro Hair Secrets
Photographed by Matilda Hill Jenkins.In London beauty circles, Charlotte Mensah’s name is synonymous with perfectly quaffed afro hair. Her magic hands have the ability make your curls bounce, your hair...
View Article7 Easy And Creative Gin & Tonic Recipes
Gin is kind of a big deal, so much so that it's now widely celebrated with its very own day! International Gin & Tonic day gives everyone an excuse to pour themselves a G&T, Negroni or just...
View ArticleWhy Work Stress Could Actually Be Good For Your Health
Illustration by Tristan Offit. With the ubiquity of mindfulness, yoga and overpriced candles marketed as a great way to help us "de-stress", you'd be forgiven for thinking stress is always bad for our...
View ArticleThe Boy From Lily Allen's Calais Video Has Arrived In The UK
Photo: BBC Via Youtube. Last week, singer Lily Allen caused a stir by apologising to refugees in Calais "on behalf of my country". She had travelled to the Calais "Jungle" with the BBC to highlight the...
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