The White Lotus creator Mike White has often vocalised his fascination with wealth, class and the ensuing power dynamics they elicit. Season two has another very conspicuous theme — sex. It’s impossible to examine the collision between class and sexual desire without addressing sex work. It’s natural for sex workers […]
Most sleep talkers are blissfully unaware of their condition. We’re deep in dreamland and apart from the odd sleep-scream that wakes us up from our slumber, it’s mostly a harmless quirk. I’m a sleep-talking veteran — I never grew out of the childhood habit and it has followed me for […]
Refinery29 presents the first IRL taping of beauty podcast, Gloss Angeles. Co-hosts Sara Tan and Kirbie Johnson sit down with the Gwen Stefani in front of a live studio audience. Gwen Stefani didn’t have the support of everyone when starting her cosmetics line, GXVE. In fact, many of her nearest […]
There was a period in the 2010s when personality quizzes were inescapable. Like One Direction’s boppy tunes, their presence was widespread. Pottermore’s house-sorting, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator’s 16 personalities, Buzzfeed’s endless Disney character quizzes and the reemergence of love languages allowed us to neatly label our deposition with catchy names. As […]
Christmastime is about making memories with loved ones and enjoying delicious food, yes, but it is also about the looks. From the start of December until 1st January, every occasion becomes instantly dressier and you find yourself stepping into your sparkliest outfit for just about any event. For those who […]
For many years, I felt like fashion wasn’t for me. I grew up with sensory issues that were not diagnosed as Autistic until my late teens, which often meant that I didn’t dress like everyone else and was sometimes mocked for choosing outfits that accommodated my needs. Be it the […]
There’s a story we’ve been told about Britain’s falling birth rate. It goes something like this: women are too focused on their careers, having children too late and risking infertility when they do finally get around to attempting to get pregnant. It is true that women’s fertility does generally decline […]
You might know Annie Thomson (aka @a_day_in_the_life_of_annie on Instagram) for her fun and relatable beauty videos. Whether you’re keen to see how that viral hair product performs IRL or sniffing out Christmas gift recommendations for makeup obsessives, you’ll find it all on Annie’s page. What you might not have expected […]
There is a special level of nirvana that you can only access under certain and very specific conditions: you have to be at your second bottomless brunch of the day, getting pulled by the arm into a conga line so rampant that it leaves the venue and veers out onto […]
“You have a condition called polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS),” confirms my GP. I’d waited twenty-one years to hear those words. “Do you plan to have any more children in the future?” It always struck me how much emphasis doctors place on the reproductive challenges attributed to PCOS, despite there being […]
