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The One Night Stand – ‘In defense of not staying over’

I recently read an article that preached that it is antisocial and somewhat pathetic to not be able to stick around for small talk and snoozing after you've gone back to a stranger's for a shag. "Jesus Christ" I whisper in shock; casual fucks have always been the epitome of my social life, and now I'm being told it doesn't even...

International Women’s Day – Our Women of Inspiration

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Today is the day we celebrate women on International Women's Day. Some would say that one day isn't nowhere near as much time for us to celebrate women all over the world, but at least we have once.We made a conscious decision to not all choose our mums, as we just celebrated them 2 days ago on the 6th march...

Why I’m still wearing the dress I was raped in?

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On a solo trip to Costa Rica, the unimaginable happened to Scandinavian activist Amalie Have. After a night out partying she came back to her hostel where she stayed in a tent and a gentleman who she had met at the party came in and raped her. The series of events went quite quickly and soon after she took him...

Aspen Matis: ‘ My rape was not the end of everything; it was the beginning of something bigger.’

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On her second night at Colorado College, Aspen Matis was sexually assaulted by a fellow student. What she did next, many may find unfathomable: she asked her attacker to stay the night. Accused of fabricating the assault by both the college and her attacker, Matis dropped out and embarked on a cleansing 2,650-mile trek from Mexico to Canada, along the...

Guest Blog: Roslyn Griner talks body image, fashion and the plus size industry

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The plus-size market is experiencing a not so quiet revolution. For a very long time the conversation about plus-size fashion was closed off to those in the community, and it wasn’t a topic of interest for a lot of press or those in the fashion industry as a whole. In 2015 we saw more of a dialogue in mainstream media...

50:50 Parliament are the new Suffragettes

If you haven’t already seen ‘Suffragette’ in cinemas you should probably be in one right now, watching it. And then make your whole family watch it. And your friends. If your friends don’t want to watch it, they’re not real friends. If you have seen it however, you will probably know that pictured above is Suffragette’s lead actress, Carey Mulligan,...

Germaine Greer. Pointing out the bleeding obvious.

It may have escaped your notice whilst you’ve been here on Flavourmag flipping through skater skirts and faux fur eyelashes or whatever you do here... but the feminists have been debating a crucial issue over the past few days. The issue is no-platforming. This isn’t where feminists object to certain shoes. This is where someone is removed from the list...

Ashley Mariee talks girl gamers, minecraft & beauty

Ashley Mariee is a badass gamer, minecraft and youtube star and also one eighth of the Legends of Gaming. We managed to bag an exclusive interview with Ashley Mariee, where she talks, Minecraft, youtube, beauty and girl gamers.If you love Ashley then send a tweet and show your support by hitting the tweet button below:Let's talk about girls and gaming... How did you feel when asked...

Exclusive: Ashley Graham talks lingerie, body size and Addition Elle

We are huge fans of Ashley Graham on Flavourmag. Her #IAMSIZESEXY campaign is a breath of fresh air for women all of the globe. With the launch of the Ashley Graham lingerie line in full swing and enough social media followers to give some of the hollywood stars a run for their money. We managed to get pull Ashley away...

Jean Hatchet talks, breastfeeding, feminism and fashion

Recently I was invited to write a feminist piece by the lovely editor of this magazine who was keen for some “alternative” content. He’d read about some of my campaigning around sexual violence. He did point out that my feminist principles may not sit at ease morally or politically with the rest of the “fashion” content that would surround...

10 Feminist Activists you should be following on Twitter

There’s no question that Twitter has become one of the most influential social media platforms of the 21st Century. These days you need only check your twitter feed for the latest updates on news, entertainment and culture trends; all of it tangled up in a rather overwhelming amount of differing opinions now able to be heard, gain retweets and travel...