Feature | the elephant in the room

Contraceptive apps: brilliant, bonkers or brave?

2018-07-25 by Elephants Voice

Contraception is often assumed to be, whether correctly so or not, a woman’s responsibility. Sitting on a plastic chair at a walk-in clinic with your best friend as you both read leaflets about chlamydia and try not to make direct eye contact with anybody else. Normally the experience is uncomfortable but infrequent and worth it so that you can enjoy an active sex life. However, contraceptives are never that easy. Each contraceptive comes with it’s own semi-dissertation of warnings and […]

Categories: Advice, Debate, Feature, feminism, Health • Tags: birthcontrol, coil, condom, contraceptive, contraceptivepill, controversy, Feature, feminism, fertility, Health, IUD, lifestyle, opinion, rubbers, sex, sexual, sexualhealth

DOCUMENTARY: Life’s a Drag

2018-03-13 by Elephants Voice

As part of a university module (Advanced Documentary) myself and two other students (Angelina Masih and Tom Whitby) created the (below) short documentary film. Reigning Queen Bee The Witch Blair is living a dual life, funding his on-stage persona with his day job as an admin professional. His sharp-wit and love for Disney is driving his drag career, where he often mixes his strong political opinions into his act. We followed Blair, both in and out of the wig, to see if […]

Categories: documentary, Feature • Tags: bar, documentary, drag, dragqueen, exclusive, Feature, film, gay, interview, leeds, leedscitycentre, lgbt, media, performance, pride, queenbee, reigning, shortfilm, show, viaduct, viaductshowbar

Golden Globes 2018: the blackout that forced sexual predators into the spotlight

2018-01-11 by Elephants Voice

This year’s awards ceremonies were kicked off at the Golden Globes with a united front against Hollywood’s damning tsunami of sexual harassment cases. The red carpet that is usually donned with designer gowns flooded with colour was instead a blackout, excusing a few rebels. Celebrities united to wear all black outfits as part of a silent protest against the growing pile of sexual harassment cases that is growing in both size and momentum. Though many argued that a silence was part of […]

Categories: Celebrity, CONFIDENCE, Debate, Feature, feminism, News, Politics • Tags: #metoo, #TimesUp, abuse, actor, actress, blackout, designer, dress, equality, Feature, feminism, feminist, goldenglobes, harassment, journalist, mcgowan, media, pradalgurung, rape, rosemcgowan, sex, sexualabuse

Are millennials the new feminist icons?

2017-11-08 by Elephants Voice

Are you a feminist? Does the word make you angry? Hell, do you have feminist values but refuse to tie your views and attitudes to that disastrous word? If it’s the latter then you are not alone, countless people (male and female) are misinformed on that Dreaded F Word. Yet, millennials have got real educated on the subject, and they are starting a revolution. You don’t need to wear a slogan tee with the worded feminism branded across it to be part […]

Categories: Debate, Feature, feminism, Uncategorized • Tags: bigbangtheory, controversial, Debate, equality, Feature, feminazi, feminism, feminist, harveyweinstein, mayimbialik, men, rape, sexism, sexist, women

Grieving the loss of a parent (Part 2): the kids behind the cancer

2017-08-03 by Elephants Voice

Earlier this week, Elephants Voice interviewed grieving daughter Lauren Cheshire who lost her mother to bowel cancer earlier this year. As this grief was still intensely raw it felt appropriate to also share how grief begins to cope with time. Grief may stand still but life keeps going and it felt important to share how to start moving forward once again. To read part one of the blogs feature ‘The kids behind the cancer‘, before delving into the second half of this two […]

Categories: Advice, Feature, Health, Personal • Tags: Advice, bowel, bowelcancer, cancer, cancerous, coping, daughter, Death, family, father, fathersday, Feature, grieving, ill, kid, life, mortality, terminal

#2 Chats with Charlie

2017-07-09 by Elephants Voice

After the success of my first Chat’s With Charlie post, I have decided to continue the feature on a weekly basis! Eeeeeeek, exciting! Check out the link above if you fancy reading the first installment! To enhance the feature and get even more of you sending in questions I’ve also made an anonymous link (via good old Ask.fm) for anyone and everyone to send in any Q’s anonymously. Fancy sending in a question this way? Go ahead… All questions get answered! Three will be answered […]

Categories: Advice, AGONY AUNT, Feature, opinion, Personal • Tags: Advice, agonyaunt, annonymous, askfm, boyfriend, breakup, chats, cry, ending, Feature, fun, girlfriend, guru, heartbreak, heartbroken, life, lifestyle, magazinejourno, relationships, single, singlelife

It looks like the public maybe making a U-turn, and that nearly everyone underestimated Corbyn…

2017-06-03 by Elephants Voice

(Here’s a little disclaimer before you all rip me to shreds for being brave, stupid enough to voice my political opinion online.)

Categories: Feature, News, Politics • Tags: conservative, corbyn, Feature, jeremycorbyn, labour, manifesto, may, opinion, political, Politics, theresamay, vote, voters

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