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Sometimes the current political climate with it's right wing leaders promoting a roll back of women and lgbt rights can seem overwhelming. Sometimes hiding away from it all in a good book can be just the restorative 'me time' which is needed. We asked Beth to reveal the books that have kept...

How many clothing items have you bought in the past month? In this day and age, it is hard not to be tempted with new collections that come into the shops every season. Even when there is no more room in our closets, we cannot resist 

Gentleman Jack was screened in the UK on the BBC 19th May 2019. Our regular blogger Beth Kennedy reviews the first episode and sheds some more light on the real Anne Lister.  “I love, & only love, the fairer sex & thus beloved by them in turn, my heart revolts from any other love than theirs.”

There are several barriers for trans and queer people who want to enjoy fitness and a lot of these barriers are created by the other people in exercise environment. What are these and how can they be addressed.

We've been pondering the continued and relentless dominance of patriarchy and what is to be done. Recently I've been inspired by Lisa Luxx, especially her spoken word piece “What Sisterhood Means.”In the wider global community, sisterhood is an army. This collective of women inspired the #MeToo movement.

Tomboy = A gender non-conforming female child?  Beth Kennedy digs down into some of the contradictions around this term. George from The Famous Five, Jo from Little Women, Mel C from the Spice Girls - what do they all have in common? They’re some of the most famous tomboy role models in the world!  In fact, some of the most seemingly feminine

To badly misquote Einstein: women’s sizes are a stubbornly persistent illusion. Size 12, size 18, size 8, even size 0. We’ve all heard them. We all use them in our everyday lives. But what do they actually mean? The huge disparity in clothing sizes is something bemoaned by women worldwide. But why is there such variation? And what are your options if your body type doesn’t fit the standardised models? Clothing sizes for women are a relatively new addition to the fashion world, only coming to prevalence in the middle of the last century. Before the modernisation of fashion manufacturing,...

Why are some parents deathly afraid that their son might want to play with dolls or that their daughter might want to play with toy cars? Why are some parents terrified of their son wearing a tutu or their daughter preferring to wear a shirt and bow tie? Children shouldn’t be judged or ridiculed for their choice in clothing, toys or even what they want to be when they grow up. Toy segregation doesn’t make sense because...