What happens when motherhood feels like a living death? Drawing on Orna Donath’s Regretting Motherhood, this essay confronts the taboo truth of maternal regret, the erasure of women, and why every woman deserves to know the cost before becoming a mother.
Before Madonna struck a pose, Mae West struck a match.
She was the original provocateur — arrested for writing about sex, banned from Broadway for celebrating desire, and censored by Hollywood for refusing to play nice. Yet through wit, glamour, and sheer audacity, she rewrote the rules of womanhood on screen and off.
Come Up and See Me Sometime: Mae West and the Making of a Feminist Icon traces how one woman’s defiance shaped modern feminism, queer aesthetics, and the art of female self-invention.
Motherhood is often framed as a woman’s ultimate purpose, yet for many it becomes the greatest barrier to freedom, ambition, and self-actualization. The Motherhood Mistake: A Cautionary Tale for Women With Dreams challenges the cultural myth that children complete women, exposing instead how motherhood can consume their futures—unless entered from a position of independence and wealth. Drawing from lived experience and feminist critique, this piece serves as both testimony and warning: women with dreams must protect their autonomy first, or risk surrendering it to the unrelenting demands of motherhood.
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Why do we hate women who seem to have it all? From Meghan Markle to Gwyneth Paltrow, Martha Stewart to Nigella Lawson, this article dives into the bizarre cultural obsession with tearing down beautiful, wealthy, ambitious women. These “most hated women” broke the trophy wife mold, built their own empires, and triggered a backlash rooted in envy, misogyny, and societal discomfort with female power. This irreverent but deeply researched piece unpacks what their stories reveal about us—and why we need to stop punishing women for wanting more.
Maternal rage is often seen as a modern symptom of burnout or imbalance—but what if it’s something far older, more purposeful, and deeply wired into our biology? This essay explores the evolutionary roots of postpartum anger, uncovering how maternal aggression may have once safeguarded infants, dissolved infertile bonds, and mobilized vital social support. By blending science with storytelling, we reframe maternal rage not as a failure, but as a powerful legacy of survival.
A feminist icon embodies independence, strength, emotional intelligence, and authenticity. Such a figure challenges traditional gender roles and stereotypes without sacrificing essential femininity or personal depth. Beth Dutton exemplifies these qualities, asserting herself in male-dominated arenas while openly expressing vulnerability.
Drawing from evolutionary biology, comparative animal behaviour, neuroscience, and psychology, we seek to understand what separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom in this capacity, and what that might say about our broken systems of gender, identity, and emotional regulation.
Gertrude Bell, known as the “Queen of the Desert,” was a vital yet underappreciated figure influencing early 20th-century Middle Eastern politics. Through her travels, diplomatic efforts, and personal struggles, she shaped modern Iraq while advocating for cultural respect. Documentaries and films about her legacy highlight her profound impact on history.
If I told you that my Syrian husband was abusive, to the average Westerner, their first response would be: “Well, he’s Syrian. That’s how they are. It’s cultural.” But if I made the same confession to the average Middle Eastern person, particularly to a woman, they would immediately start telling me about what rights I have, not just under the prevailing laws of the country that I live in, but also, many of them would more confidently and more emphatically tell me about my rights according to Islam. Which are plentiful, by the way.