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Sandy Lowres, Founder of WB40 magazine (Women Beyond 40) and The Good Girl Confessional podcast is a woman who has found her groove. And...
It would be nigh impossible to not know that singer/songwriter Kate Bush is back in the charts, thanks to the 80s-themed Netflix mega-series ‘Stranger...
By Sandy Lowres
Ahead of The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever Sandy Lowres explores the eternal power of Kate Bush–and how she keeps running up that hill.
If...
Ashton Applewhite, the celebrated NY based author and the self-described “pro-aging radical” has defined ageism as something that “occurs when a dominant group uses...
i am gone
here but not
there but not
in out
out in
floating, gone again
i am dissociation
i am
pelt of shame
a foreign heart
i am come apart
i am
And then him/he...
“I console myself with the knowledge that turtles can breathe out of their butts, wisdom imparted from
the trivia printed on the strip of an overnight maxi-pad.”
“The disorienting midnight toilet visit that follows comes with fears that I may be too late, praying my
nightie is drenched from sweat.”
The Byron Bay region of Australia is picturesque and has long been synonymous with alternative lifestyles, down to earth people, and more recently a...
“The statistics quoted were so overwhelming they left me with no doubt, no wriggle room to find anything redeemable.”
“So be gone you grubby creatures that ‘do it’ and ‘condone it’ as the full power of the law is set to now descend upon you and protect victims of bullying, sexual harassment and sexual assault.”
“As for those who ignored it, I will do some paraphrasing of my own in stating that evil thrives when good people do nothing.”
Looking back now, I feel again that sense of foreboding in late December when ash from far away fires started to sprinkle down on me, my family, neighbours and friends, as I pottered in the garden.
Forging a business with passion
When Western Australian Kerry Ridley suddenly found herself on the end of a work place redundancy from her admin role,...
I kept seeing videos of women rollerskating. Black women; fat women; queer women; women wearing hijabs, a woman using a mobility aid. Skating seemed to be for everyone!
“When I explained that the abuse he suffered was not his fault and why, I did not need to tell him twice,” Leceta explains, “His eyes became bright! The healing began.”