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Realitea: lockdown is ruining our roaring twenties
Category: Realitea
Realitea: how lockdown pressures took their toll on my wellbeing
In this personal essay, Sophie Wilson expands on the pressures we put on ourselves during Covid-19 to "better ourselves" and why this is a damaging rhetoric.
Cyber societea: is meaningless social scrolling more damaging than we realise?
Kathryn Creith explores the toxic relationship between mental health and "social" media and how this has worsened during lockdown. How can we change bad habits into healthy screen-time?
Mentalitea: why our black skin can no longer be seen as superhuman
Rashida Campbell-Allen shares her poem and thoughts to provoke conversations around mental health amongst Black British women.
Report shows how young women are economically hardest hit by coronavirus
Women have done more childcare duties during lockdown, meaning they are doing more unpaid work. The Young Women's Trust is calling on the government to leave #NoYoungWomanBehind.
Normalitea: why it’s okay to be single in your 20s
Catherine Entwistle is currently prioritising her career over a relationship. She explains why it's time to rewrite an outdated narrative.
Recovered anorexic warns against Johnson’s “unnecessary” calorie-counting scheme
Boris Johnson has announced he will introduce calorie counting onto restaurant menus. But what does this mean for those with eating disorders? Emmanuelle Gammage explains the damage.
Diversitea: is the modelling industry transforming?
The modelling industry is notoriously under-representative. But could there be change in the air? How do companies avoid tokenism?
Diversitea: “(Re)presenting Cover Girls” comes to Newcastle University
Drs Ivana Ebel and Gabrielle Bittelbrun attended Newcastle University to give their talk "(Re)presenting cover girls" last Tuesday. In this video, I interview them to find out more about what they hope to get from these talks and why sharing their research with the next generation of journalists is so important.
To Infinitea and Beyond: women in science (2)
Female enrolment for some STEM subjects is currently at 5% globally. How do we close this gap?
