As the first few weeks of lockdown unfolded, I found myself rediscovering the joys of Twitter – not just history Twitter and museums Twitter but also mainstream Twitter. What was
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This weekend just gone should have been the annual Pride in London and UK Black Pride events, but the current situation means that things have taken a different shape this
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I feel like I’ve always known how important clothes were, but until I started studying them at university, I didn’t have the vocabulary to talk about it. Then, when I
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Back at the start of April, Jana and I started a project to capture some of the many personal stories surrounding the human relationship with clothing during the coronavirus pandemic
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At the start of the year, I doubt that many of us would have been able to guess how strange our lives would become in 2020. As people around the
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When you’re growing up, it’s easy to assume that everyone experiences life the way you do. All families have the same idiosyncrasies yours does, and all schools are very similar
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First came the dress that rustles when I move. Although it’s not a party frock it very much sounds like one, and this startled me at first. I bought it
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I have to admit that one of the biggest joys of having my own blog is being able to use it to shout about people who I think are doing
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From some angles, it can appear that the world is one massive dumpster fire right now. The news is filled with political doom and gloom, freak weather incidents are on
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My first boyfriend and I used to write to each other while he was away at university in Swansea. We started writing letters as friends, hooked up one time when
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