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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...

The biggest insult at the moment? Snowflake. But why is a fragment of ice that falls from the sky on a chilly day become one of the most popular put-downs for our time? 

The first ever London Queer Fashion Show took place on September the 20th in Hackney. It may have passed you by as unfortunately it did not gather much mainstream media attention. Certainly overdue and most welcome this event wanted to give visibility to diversity within the community and as the...

The UK fashion industry makes up around £26 billion of the economy and is set to grow even more over the next five years. But how much of the clothing is actually ethically sourced and made? Cotton Incorporated Environment Survey showed 57% of consumers claim they’re influenced by clothing companies that place emphasis on sustainability, with 26% of the

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Where are all the pockets at? This is something that has puzzled me for years. I was given clothes owned by my older siblings as a child and I often wondered why my brother’s jeans fit so

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What is it about being anything other that heterosexual that leads people to believe that ‘we’ are some sort of foreign creature? When I came out as gay I took the stepping stone route and told my parents I was bisexual. Why? I’m not sure. Maybe I felt like going all the way to gayville was too much of a leap in one go. Maybe I didn’t want to commit to the lesbian label. Or maybe I wanted them to think I was a little bit straight. Somewhere deep down.