“We need to start valuing people who live on estates and valuing the estates themselves. Bricks and concrete don’t cause societal problems – they’re caused by inequality.”
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How do you deal with mental health problems in the workplace?
I decided to speak to a number of people currently managing mental health problems while in work, and I was inundated with responses within minutes of making a public request.
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Every time I visit the job centre, the staff treat me like a subhuman
After three months of freelancing and looking for work and essentially living on less than £30 a week, I decided that the only sensible thing to do was to sign on and collect Job Seeker’s Allowance.
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Fashion’s Lolita moment: why are campaigns so keen to fetishize young girls?
If you weren’t already aware, little girls are in. Socially, we remain mired in a seemingly unbreakable obsession with youth, particularly when it comes to women.
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The Ex-Anorexic’s Guide to Shopping
I love shopping, but it’s stressful. It’s particularly stressful because I’m an ex-anorexic and bulimic, and I can trace the pattern of my almost ten year struggle with food and weight in the clothing I’ve bought over that period.
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Model workers: The clothes shops that only hire beautiful people
The likes of American Apparel and Abercrombie & Fitch expect their sales staff to conform to a narrow conception of beauty, sometimes even calling them “models” so they can reject those whose faces don’t fit.
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Children’s bodies in adult clothes: fashion’s love affair with youth and size zero
Why – even though fashion is aimed at adult women – does it use teenage models? Is it because their bodies are more child-like – or because they are more compliant?
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