EmPOWERMENt: Repurposing survivor-victim language
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq For as long as I’ve been a feminist, I’ve resented the term survivor being used in gender-based violence...
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Sorcha Tipping
- Mar 31
- 4 min
A pattern of disrespect: how the media influences narratives of dead or missing women
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Recent reports in the mainstream media have demonstrated a pattern of disrespect towards women who have...
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Jessamy Guest
- Mar 25
- 4 min
Peru's Nightmare: Three Months After Castillo
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq On the 7th of December 2022, in a national broadcast, the then President of Peru, Pedro Castillo, took a...
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Amelia Newton
- Feb 14
- 4 min
TikTok’s “that girl” trend: motivational self-help or another capitalist tactic for consumerism?
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq From #Girlboss to ‘that girl’, society has long generated new standards by which women’s social and...
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Issy Clarke
- Feb 9
- 3 min
Keir Starmer’s path to No 10
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq On Sunday 15th of January Keir Starmer was pressed by Laura Kuenssberg on her Sunday morning politics...
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Jessamy Guest
- Feb 8
- 4 min
Thank God for the North East!
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq When Brazil’s new president was sworn in on January 1st, the world heaved a sigh of relief. This was not...
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Sorcha Tipping
- Jan 17
- 4 min
The forgotten crisis: period poverty and the cost of living
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Period poverty management and education, has worsened in the current economic climate with the...
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Olivia Lee
- Nov 17, 2022
- 4 min
Buffer zones: The next logical step
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq With the overturning of Roe v Wade earlier this year, it is no doubt that pro-life groups have been given...
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Hermione Byron
- Nov 10, 2022
- 4 min
Turn on, tune in, log out
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq ‘Like’ it or not, social media is reshaping our brains. In more ways than one, the internet influences...
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Verity Limond
- Nov 9, 2022
- 4 min
Beyond the generational battlefield: changing portrayals of older people through activism
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Homeowners. Renters. Xenophobic. Cosmopolitan.Pension. Precarity. Conservative. Progressive....
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Grace Murray
- Oct 25, 2022
- 3 min
A coerced narrative
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq “I often find narrative and storytelling to be helpful.” (Margaret Akers, Life Society Meeting, Mon 17th,...
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Sorcha Tipping
- Sep 12, 2022
- 5 min
The role of period tracking apps under the USA’s new abortion laws
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq This article is part of The Broad's short series in response to the US Supreme Court's decision to...
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Rosie Harrison
- Jul 28, 2022
- 4 min
A Game of Two Halves: Football and Male Mental Health
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Kenny Shiels, manager of Northern Ireland’s national women’s football team, recently drew controversy...
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Alex Orr
- Jul 27, 2022
- 4 min
America, Anti-Choicers, and Bodily Autonomy
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq This article is part of The Broad's short series in response to the US Supreme Court's decision to...
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Alex Orr
- Jul 26, 2022
- 5 min
Misogyny and the war on … everyone?
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq This article is part of The Broad's short series in response to the US Supreme Court's decision to...
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Daniel James
- Jul 19, 2022
- 3 min
Rugby, the North, and the Conservatives
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Last month Nadine Dorries, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, attended an...
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Gem Kirwan
- Jul 16, 2022
- 5 min
The overturning of Roe v Wade and Republicans’ assault on human rights
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq This article is part of The Broad's short series in response to the US Supreme Court's decision to...
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Lauren Galligan
- Jul 3, 2022
- 4 min
Anti-sex discourse is rife when it comes to abortion debates – and it’s killing people.
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq This article is part of The Broad's short series in response to the US Supreme Court's decision to...
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Willow Courtauld
- Jul 2, 2022
- 4 min
‘Yellow Peril’: the dangers of the subconscious and The Blindboy Podcast
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq I spent the evening of 21st May in a small pocket of Barcelona at the Blindboy Live Podcast. Surrounded...
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Gem Kirwan
- Jun 7, 2022
- 3 min
What Ricky Gervais’ Super Nature reveals about controversial comedy
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Comedy is an art form – it may be true that a comedian’s primary goal is to make people laugh, but...
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