The Jane Doe in the Cornell seven case is getting threats | Arwa Mahdawi
Every time a story about a woman being raped becomes headline news, the same pattern repeats without failIf she really was raped, why didn’t she speak up earlier? Why did she get drunk? Why was she wearing such a short skirt? Why did she walk home by…
‘There is no secret agenda’: Nara Smith on home-making absolutely everything, raising four kids at 25 – and why she’s definitely not a tradwife
The model, actor and influencer is known for making her own frozen yoghurt, bubblegum or even toothpaste while dressed in immaculate haute couture. But she insists she is not who the internet thinks she isNara Smith is not a tradwife, she wants you…
‘Cancer is tripling and will keep increasing’: first African to lead global action against disease ready for battle
With cancer cases rising fastest in poorer countries, Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu, president-elect of the Union for International Cancer Control, says Africa needs investment in research, diagnosis and preventionWhen Dr Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu last saw Gloria…
Here’s what connects the Cornell alleged rape case to those before: accused men not being held to serious account | Emma Brockes
There was progress after #MeToo, but not enough. Certainly not enough to shift the assumptions that still protect men and denigrate victimsIf the past is another country, and there is nothing so poignant as the innocence of recent history, then there is…
Esther Rantzen’s Mama was a lifeline for new mums | Letters
Fiona Lindop says she will always be grateful to the TV presenter for establishing the Meet-a-Mum Association Esther Rantzen (Obituary, 1 October) is rightly remembered and honoured for her wide-ranging charity work, including establishing Childline and…
‘Men are a scam!’ The trials of Danielle Ponder, the lawyer turned singer rooting for a better world
After representing society’s dispossessed, Ponder started a music career in her 40s – then faced miscarriage, anxiety and more. She explains her survival instinct“You can get everything you dreamed of career-wise, and your life can still crumble, and…
The vapourware of the airline industry | Brief letters
Heathrow’s third runway and aircraft emissions | Taking the hint | Editorial mischief | Girls and ladies | The bleeding obviousGeorge Monbiot coins the word “perceptionware” for technology trailed but never trialled, and only intended to impress the…
Are my gen X peers the influencers the world has been waiting for? | Emma Beddington
Their careers are peaking, they’re rich in money and time – and young people think they’re cool. But maybe it’s not as simple as that‘Stop sleeping on gen X.” I heard this on TikTok recently. I misinterpreted it, with a guilty start, as: “Stop sleeping,…
My relationship with food was broken. Then I killed my own dinner
For years, eating was something to control, fear or regret. After I hunted my first deer, I started to see fat, hunger and my own body in a different lightI muffled my sobs with a pillow so my family couldn’t hear me from the adjacent room. I was 19…
The hill I will die on: not everything is a ‘girl’ thing – stop gendering and infantilising it all | Elle Hunt
No, I don’t want to go for a girl walk before my girl dinner with my girl mates: I am a grown woman who walks and eats and votes – and, patriarchy, I am on to youThis morning, after waking up with my girl cats, I made myself a cup of girl coffee then got…