“I couldn’t listen to her music for the longest time. I used to go out and I would leave the room if it came on in a restaurant.” Dionne Bromfield pauses for a moment as we talk on Zoom, recounting how she coped at the height of her grief. “It […]
Since the first lockdown in March last year there’s been a major shift in how people cook, with every other Instagram story featuring banana bread, a sourdough starter or a questionable WFH lunch. As we powered through, none of us forgot that feeling of walking into your favourite neighbourhood restaurant, […]
I found the Refy Brow Sculpt where I get most of my makeup tips nowadays: on my FYP, in one of those get-ready-with-me videos that feels like a FaceTime. Creator and model Eloise Dufka was prepping for a sushi date with a love interest (TikTok dating content is my vice). […]
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Unlike many of my friends who frequently share their dating escapades and relationship highs and lows, I have never been much of a dater. Whether it was school, career or my mental health and personal wellbeing, other aspects of my life have usually taken priority over swiping on Tinder and […]
My first experience of lucid dreaming was, like many nighttime visions, both exceptional and banal. I was standing at Haggerston Overground station in London and as the train glided into the platform, I noticed that it moved more gracefully than usual. The wheels didn’t screech along the track and the […]
Ever since my ex and I broke up on holiday in Berlin over four years ago, I’ve avoided holidays with partners like the plague. At the end of last year, a spontaneous second date helped me break the cycle quicker than expected. As someone who finds relationships slightly alien and […]
In our series Salary Stories, women with long-term career experience open up about the most intimate details of their jobs: compensation. It’s an honest look at how real people navigate the complicated world of negotiating, raises, promotions and job loss, with the hope it will give young women more insight into […]
We all know dating can be draining, especially for women, so it pays to be as tactical as possible. With this in mind, it’s time to bookmark next Sunday – 8th January – as the best day to open your dating apps. That’s because it’s officially “Dating Sunday” 2023: the […]
