In 2008 we bailed out the banks. We now face the biggest financial crisis in a generation, with record youth unemployment. Who will bail out young people? R29 and Vice are joining the National Union of Students to call for all students to be offered rent rebates and asking the […]
Before Coronavirus took hold, it was estimated that the average cost of a UK wedding had exceeded £30,000. Now, thanks largely to the pandemic, low-key weddings and micro weddings are expected to be popular this year. After all, many couples might decide to scale back their plans in order to […]
Netflix announced in January that it is increasing the price of some of its UK subscriptions. The basic plan, which allows you to watch content on one device at a time in SD (standard definition), will remain priced at £5.99 a month. However, the price of the standard plan has […]
Gigi Hadid’s original plan was to deliver her first child in a state-of-the-art New York City hospital, not an inflatable bathtub in the middle of a farm in Pennsylvania. But after the COVID-19 pandemic hit shortly after she learned she was expecting, the 25-year-old model had to reevaluate exactly where […]
Malcolm & Marie is based on a simple premise: What happens after a director forgets to thank his wife at his movie’s premiere? Zendaya and John David Washington yelling at each other for two hours in black and white is one answer. But, the writer and director of the film, […]
Welcome to week two in February, or the great Aquarian clusterfuck of 2021. That’s right, this week, six planets are transiting Aquarius and things are bound to get a little — if not a lot — weird. There’s the new moon on February 11th, which has been in a show-down […]
A TikTok trend embraced by women and rooted in body-positivity is being exploited by creepy men. Known as the “silhouette challenge”, it involves taking a photo of yourself striking a pose in a doorway. You then use Snapchat’s vin rouge filter to create a striking image of a black silhouette […]
Online dating is a minefield that can feel especially treacherous for marginalised groups, so it’s great to hear that Bumble is coming down hard on all forms of body-shaming. At the end of January, the women-first dating app updated its terms and conditions to “explicitly ban unsolicited and derogatory comments […]
Though not one of the major four, Copenhagen Fashion Week has, in recent years, been a hotspot for trends that matter. Between its effortlessly cool street style and roster of It Girl brands like Ganni and Cecilie Bahnsen, it has also made a name for itself as one of the […]
If Netflix’s Firefly Lane feels like it could be a true story, that’s because the show was inspired by the life of author Kristin Hannah. In 2008, she published the novel of the same name that the show is based on. It’s her childhood in the ’70s in Snohomish, Washington […]
