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'Virginity is a myth we've given too much power'
Hollie McNish says she has always found the concept of virginity "weird and kind of frightening" When the poet Hollie McNish lost her virginity at the age of 19, she stared at her face in the mirror
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Two waste paper bins, one Olympic dream "Big up the netballers. That sport is so difficult." - Stormzy, May 2026 Derived from basketball and developed by teenagers in late-Victorian England, netbal
Shahrnush Parsipur remembered, Fibroids, Grief and clothing, Olympian health
Radio 4,·09 Jul 2026,·56 mins Available for over a year Iranian writer, Shahrnush Parsipur, who spent her life documenting what it meant to be a woman living under repression in Iran, died this week
Anger over Epstein and Andrew fuels festival of 'female anarchy'
Dozens of leading female writers are uniting to stage an ambitious theatrical event in a financial office to express their "seismic rage" over the Epstein files and honour his victims. Titled All the