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Black people in England and Wales are twice as likely to die from coronavirus as white people. This result is shown in a report released on Thursday by the Office for National Statistics that has analysed the coronavirus (COVID-19) related deaths by ethnic group in two of the UK regions. As we reach the sad […]

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Last year was huge year for me and my health. Within the space of a few months, I was diagnosed with Polycystic ovaries syndrome along with Endometriosis. What shocked me the most was that the symptoms that lead to the diagnosis of both conditions were ones I had lived with for years. The same symptoms […]

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Death is a weird thing to experience. Before it happened, I never really understood its full impact. I’d lost a great aunt, a few cats and a dog, but not a dad. No one tells you about how weird it is that one day they’re there; alive, beating, warm, and the next… gone. Obviously their […]

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Often, in important historical and political movements, the rights and needs of women have been sacrificed and relegated to the back of society’s consciousness. Writer Gwendolyn Mikell cites the decolonisation of African countries as an example of this, stating that ‘after independence, male suppression of African women’s political autonomy increased’. This encroachment into the civil rights […]

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So recently, news broke that Demi Lovato had been rushed to hospital due to a suspected drug overdose. She previously went into rehab in 2010 for professional help with substance abuse and had been honest about her struggle with drug addiction. Going as far as to recently admit to her fans, that she had relapsed […]

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Last year, I wrote an article for LAPP describing my fairly traumatic experience with an IUD and how dealing with that led me to (thankfully) discover that I’d contracted a high-risk strain of HPV. Although I was apprehensive about sharing my story, I received a lot of great feedback and support from others dealing with […]

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In 2017, The Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act was introduced by Republican senator Rob Portman. More commonly known as SESTA, the law would assist attorneys looking to sue websites that provide a platform for sex trafficking; a form of modern-day slavery in which individuals perform commercial sex through means of force, fraud, or coercion. Countries have been […]

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Welcome. Let’s get right into it. This is the second part of I Beat Cancer, So Let Me Live, an interview with Gina Spence, (one of the strongest women I know), about her experience being diagnosed with stage 3 nodular sclerosis hodgkin lymphoma, being cancer free for six years, how she wishes everyone would leave […]

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From the time that most of us were able to comprehend the concept of an advertisement, it seems like young women (and men) have been consistently targeted into a marketing scheme that is dedicated to making our faces and bodies nothing but flawless.  Everywhere from the aisle at a drugstore with severely photo shopped faces […]

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One of the Catholic church’s most famous tropes is the interference of women’s bodies and the sheer refusal to let women have agency over themselves. Given that the Bible’s teachings are mostly about peace, unconditional love, and turning the other cheek, one could be forgiven for thinking that maybe the church would have a fairly […]

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In late 2014 I was 21, a new graduate, pregnant and terrified. This pregnancy couldn’t have come at a worse time! What was I going to do? Do I keep this baby? How was I going to tell the father? What about my own parents? Unbeknownst to me this pregnancy was the start of the […]

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LAPP is dedicated to promoting unity, with the belief that everyone makes up a piece of the pie. Sadly, this feeling of unity is not a reality for many individuals with hearing impairments and it is a direct result of the way society treats them. Individuals with hearing loss are forgotten, not discussed and often […]

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