Costa Rican film-maker Antonella Sudasassi Furniss has curated a docudrama distilled from the experiences of three women in their 60s and 70s, who speak (off camera, anonymously) with wit and warmth about their enduring sexuality; an older person’s sexuality that modernity primly refuses to recognise, just as patriarchal authorities denied and repressed them as sexual […]
After Trump’s election, women are swearing off sex with men. This has been a long time coming | Cécile Simmons
It only took a few hours after news of Donald Trump’s re-election for a sad spectacle to unfold online and beyond. The far-right slogan “Your body, my choice”, tweeted by white nationalist pundit and organiser Nick Fuentes, spread online and off, sparking waves of abuse against women. “You no longer have rights” was one of […]
The creatine conundrum: can it really help your muscles and your brain? | Health & wellbeing
Until relatively recently, if you were mixing a scoop of powdered creatine into a glass of water each day, it probably meant you were a bodybuilder or training for an athletic event. Although creatine is a compound that occurs naturally in the body, its role in producing quick bursts of energy meant that, if you […]
‘Watch out, I’m even less inhibited’: Olivia Williams on movies, misogyny and living with cancer | Film
Since 2018, Olivia Williams has grown more blunt than she used to be. “I’m a bit less scared of the consequences of saying what I think,” she explains. The actor has never been particularly shy about speaking her mind, as a trawl through any of her old interviews, from the Rushmore days in the late […]
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Ahlia says her GP ‘laughed in her face’ when she asked for a water birth – and that weight stigma in pregnancy has to stop | Health
When Ahlia* was waiting to check in for a routine pregnancy appointment, she says a receptionist walked by calling out directions to gestational diabetes education – then looked at her, waiting for Ahlia to follow. “I’m not here for that,” Ahlia recalls saying in front of the waiting room full of people. It was not […]
The importance of knowing your vulva from your vagina | Women’s health
As a gynaecological cancer surgeon, I am pleased to see some myths about vulvas and vaginas being busted (Everything you ever wanted to know about vaginas … but were too afraid to Google, 2 November). However, it’s disappointing that you used pictures of vulvas, while only using vaginas in the title, thereby undermining myth No […]
‘No man will touch me until I have my rights back’: why is the 4B movement going viral after Trump’s win? | US elections 2024
McKenna, who is 24 and lives in a rural, conservative state, recently got back on dating apps after a year of finding herself. She had two first dates planned for this weekend, but after Donald Trump won the election, she cancelled both. “It’s heartbreaking to know that in this country you only matter if you’re […]
How we met: ‘I tripped and completely humiliated myself. Then I tried to style it out’ | Women
When Lyndsey joined a dating app in 2021, she didn’t have high hopes. “I was a bit useless at these things,” she says. “I’d moved to Nottingham to work as a sociology and geography research fellow at Nottingham Trent University. After the lockdowns, I was keen to meet new people.” She soon matched with CJ, […]
Demi Moore: the US is ‘built on Puritans, religious fanatics and criminals’ | Film
Demi Moore says that the US is “built on Puritans, religious fanatics and criminals” and that “you’re kind of seeing [as much] in our election right now”. Moore was speaking at the French premiere of the body-horror satire The Substance, which took place at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris on Tuesday, the night before the […]