Last week, Matt Hancock announced that Public Health England would be abolished, citing its failure to handle the coronavirus pandemic as the reason for its replacement. In its place, the new National Institute for Health Protection will take over the work that has already been set motion to tackle COVID-19. Set to be modelled on…
Author: Amy Cartledge
Fingering: How not to leave your womxn feeling like a broken lift button
NOTE This is an article for anyone venturing downtown on a person with a vagina. Where I have used ‘womxn’ regularly, this is not to exclude anyone whose sexual experience is orientated around their (as our mothers would embarrassingly call it) foof. Fingering. A truly make-or-break moment of many sexual encounters. And whereas we love…
Cultures have celebrated gender nonconformity and non-binary identity for centuries
Today July 14th celebrates International Non-Binary People’s Day, an occasion to raise awareness about and organise around the issues faced by non-binary people around the world. Transphobes across the globe often turn to history to justify their belief that there are two genders. A traumatising onslaught of variations of “not in my day!” often maligns…
Holidaying in the aftermath of COVID-19
Holidays are a strange topic to discuss at the moment. Where can we go? Should we go at all? What would the trip even look like? Our Editor-in-Chief Amy Cartledge recently travelled to Cinque Terre, northern Italy to find out how one of the worst affected regions of, what was at one time the worst…
REVIEW: Khruangbin’s latest album Mordechai is a sliding spiral of funk but lacks innovation
Mordechai is a long spiralling journey spanning across genre and rhythm which, although at times is less innovative than you’d want, it still remains what it is at its core — more hip-dip inducing Khruangbin. It is with a very heavy heart I write these words. Khruangbin, a personal all-time favourite since inadvertently coming across…
What’s happening in Yemen?
It has been called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in the last century. Yemen is currently battling a five-year-long civil war, one of the worst famines in 100 years, as well as outbreaks of both cholera and COVID-19. Although millions of Yemeni people have no access to basic human necessities such as food, water and…
When sex hurts: myth-busting and guidance on vaginismus
If you have a vagina, you have at some point thought something was wrong with it. Whether problems with orgasming, discharge consistency, irregular periods, tightness during sex (and don’t get me started on shape, colour and odour), we have all at some point got out the handheld mirror to have a look at what was…
Jiab Prachakul: National Portrait Gallery award winner in conversation with Candid Orange
A few weeks after winning the National Portrait Gallery’s 2020 BP Award for her outstanding piece Night Talk, Jiab Prachackul spoke to Candid Orange about her painting process, Asian identity in portraiture, and Berlin’s all-black uniform. The first thing that strikes you about Jiab Prachakul is — for want of a better word — her…
21st-century North-South divide: the bleak reality of child poverty
Last week, a study carried out by Loughborough University revealed the harrowing extent of child poverty in the UK and the great disparity that exists between the North and South of England. With the North East, North West and Yorkshire all experiencing an increase in child poverty cases at least two times greater than any…