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Kate & Leo Reunited To Save A Young British Woman's Life

A young British woman who was told she would die from cancer has been given the all-clear after Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio helped to raise money to fund her lifesaving treatment.The...

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100 Years After Women Won The Vote, This Is What It Means To Them

Today, 6th February 2018, marks 100 years of some (but not all) British women gaining the right to vote. The Representation of the People Act, introduced in 1918, enabled select women over the age of...

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Where To Buy Art For Less

There comes a time in life when you start to give a fuck about what you put on your walls. In your student years, a partially ripped Pulp Fiction or American Beauty poster (cringe) did the job but now...

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H&M's New Studio Collection Is Truly A Work Of Art

With spring well, springing up on us (okay, maybe not yet, but it's a-coming), it's time to start taking stock of what a new season will bring for our wardrobes. Once we're finally able to shed our...

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100 Years After The Vote, What Does The UK Really Look Like For Women?

Today will be filled with images of suffragettes smiling and marching, sashes flung across their bodies, defying their high society expectations and happily being frogmarched to cells. The 1918...

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Justin Trudeau Corrects A Woman Who Said "Mankind"& Gets Mocked

Justin Trudeau is often hailed as one of the world's most feminist national leaders, but he has come in for criticism after a video emerged of him calling out a woman for using the word "mankind"...

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Ashley Graham's New Swimwear Campaign Features Her 53-Year-Old Mum

A post shared by A S H L E Y G R A H A M (@theashleygraham) on Feb 5, 2018 at 7:49am PST Model Ashley Graham is known for her body-positive attitude and promotion of inclusivity in fashion, frequently...

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Stacy London On Her Year Of Going Broke

The day I celebrated my first anniversary of life after spine surgery — December 13 — I found out I was going broke. Well, not broke broke, but running out of cash fast. And, over the past year and a...

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I Put A Mood Ring To The Test For The Sake Of Science

For anyone who came of age in the '70s or '90s, mood rings were more than a colourful accessory — they were supposed to reveal the wearer's true emotions with the help of a simple, colour-coded key....

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Industry Insiders Tell Refinery29 What It Will Really Take To Get More Women...

The beginning of 2018 highlighted yet another area of the entertainment industry that's suffering from some vast gender inequality: music. While the dominance of female pop stars like Beyoncé or Ariana...

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PepsiCo Responds To Social Media Criticism Of "Lady Friendly" Crisps

Update: Recently, PepsiCo received major criticism on social media after the company's CEO Indra Nooyi was interviewed on the Freakonomics Podcast and stated that men and women eat Doritos differently....

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These Are The Fitness Trends Everyone Will Be Obsessed With In 2018

Certain fitness trends throughout history have gone on to become iconic signs of the times. For example, Richard Simmons will always be associated with the '80s. The quirky exercise class on The...

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Diane Kruger Responds To Criticism Of Quentin Tarantino Choking Her On Movie Set

In The Fade actress Diane Kruger has released a statement regarding Quentin Tarantino's treatment of her on the set of his film Inglourious Basterds.The prolific director of cult favourites like Pulp...

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The SpaceX Launch Wasn't Groundbreaking In One Major Way

Everything about today's SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch should have been groundbreaking: The world's most powerful rocket — one with the ability to lift almost 141,000 pounds into orbit — achieved liftoff!...

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Money Diary: A Recently Redundant 24-Year-Old On Housing Benefit

Welcome to Money Diaries, where we're tackling what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money. We're asking a cross-section of women how they spend their hard-earned money during a...

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I Went To Meghan Markle's Favourite Yoga Class & Here's What Happened

It’s a Friday night in Silver Lake, LA, and I join a queue of lithe, tanned men and women, all wearing the standard uniform round these parts of black slouchy trousers, cashmere beanies and tattoos....

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A New Exhibition Charts The T-Shirt's History Of Protest

Maria Grazia Chiuri's debut at Dior in September 2016 featured a now-ubiquitous T-shirt reading 'We should all be feminists'. A quote taken from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Beyoncé-sampled TED talk, the...

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BBC Doc Islam, Women & Me Divides Opinion Online

In last night's BBC One documentary Islam, Women and Me, 28-year-old Mehreen Baig set out to answer a difficult question: Can you be a 'good' Muslim and a strong, independent woman at the same...

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Moringa: The Superfood Beauty Ingredient That Will Boost Your Complexion

From vitamin C to turmeric, we're all ears when it comes to beauty's next wunderkind ingredient. Our latest fix? Moringa. Often referred to as the 'miracle tree', moringa is native to north India but...

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This Brit Actor Will Play Cult Leader Charles Manson

Matt Smith, best known recently for his portrayal of Prince Philip in Netflix's The Crown, will play Charles Manson in a new film. The cult leader died in November at the age of 83.The actor, who...

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