My partner and I invested in a Netflix account at Christmas and although I think my essays may be suffering, I recently discovered the series The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmitt. The basic plot is that some women are kept in an underground bunker by a Reverend for 15 years and then rescued, and the story ...

Pros: I find it easy to remember to take it, there's no pausing during sex and it feels better without condoms for my partner and I and I swim a lot so it's nice to know exactly when I'm getting my period. Cons: Got a bit spotty and my breasts got bigger the first few months I was on it until my bo...

We had three sex ed lessons, as far as I can remember - one when we were 11 on puberty, one when we were 12/ 13 on puberty again and a video on the mechanics of vaginal sex (ours was in Welsh and judging by the perm was from the 80s but the narrator also had a yellow spandex jumpsuit - is this a thi...

This really bugs me too, but I think the thing that bugs me is how much I still say it... I hear it used for women as much as men so I think it's more about certain concepts e.g. strength, bravery being associated with men rather than people not acting in accordance with their gender although that's...

I really like my arms at the moment. They're sort of a project for me. I started rock climbing last year and I've been training really hard to improve my upper body strength. I really like how strong I feel now (it reminds me of the WW2 'We Can Do It!' poster, haha). My next door neighbour asked me ...

Woah, microbicides are definitely my discovery of the day. My idea was going to be some sort of vaccine for STIs. I quite like getting my period in a bit of a hippy-ish connected-to-the-rhythms-of-nature way and although the pill works great for me I'd like some way of stopping eggs from being relea...

Massive enormous HUGE fan of having people's preferred pronouns listed on the side! If anything else occurs to me I'll mention it - I'm still getting used to the new set-up - but the pronouns thing just jumped out at me and I think it's great. :D (Also, just general kudos to everyone who's been sett...

I was acb and I'm still acb