“Pause before you judge others for consuming fast fashion and recognize that this may come from necessity.” — Fast fashion companies have come under scrutiny for their questionable sustainability and ethical practices. With Americans alone throwing away 14 million tonnes of clothes each year and the recent #PayUp campaign pressuring Fast Fashion giants to pay their workers, it’s no surprise that people have begun looking for alternative ways…

Strawberry days. Aunt Flow. Shark Week. Moon time. You know that time of the month. You could probably think of a dozen other euphemisms for “He who shall not be named”. As a society, we actively avoid talking about menstruation, as if merely uttering the word “period” will summon a…

“I’m trying to be a good person, but trying is hard, and we’ve got to accept that” I had taken my seven-year-old niece out for ice cream when she said those words. We had been talking about Christmas, and she had asked me why does Santa Clause still bring her…

“Wow, I could never do that! It must be so hard” I had been talking to a new acquaintance when the topic of relationships had come up. The second I told her that my boyfriend lived in New York, hundreds of miles away from me, her eyebrows had shot up…

I can almost hear Miranda Priestly huffing at the title of the article. She would rather die than be caught wearing that €15 floral dress from H&M, but in this case, the devil we’re referring to is climate change. …

I am a climate change activist. I go to protests and make signs on recycled cardboard. I attend meetings with local climate change activists groups, wherever local is for me at any given moment. I annoy my friends by dragging them to environmentally friendly restaurants and I’m a nightmare to…