Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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âI fight pain and fear with artâ: how Yayoi Kusama blazed a trail for neurodivergent artists (opens the original)
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The pioneering Japanese artist talked openly about how her mental health and neurodivergence informed her creativity, paving the way for the likes of Turner prize winner Nnena Kalu Yayoi Kusama â who has died at the age of 97 â was 10 when she first started experiencing vivid hallucinations consisting of visual and aural disturbances, which she described as âflashes of light, auras, or dense fields of dotsâ. A drawing from 1939, of a woman in a kimono assumed to be her mother, shows her
Heard about the âluteal ugliesâ? Women know more about our hormones than ever â and thatâs beautiful | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett (opens the original)
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When I was younger, female biology was seen as something to be overcome. Now we can talk about the reality of living in our bodies Have you got the âluteal ugliesâ? Iâm not trying to insult you, merely deploying the latest hormonal buzz phrase on social media, which refers to the phase in a womanâs cycle, two or so weeks between ovulation and menstruation, when she apparently feels at her lowest and most unattractive due to a drop in oestrogen levels. Womenâs hormones have become trend
You Wonât Get Free of It by Rachel Aviv review â a subtle study of the mother-daughter bond (opens the original)
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The most complex of female relationships is thrown into sharp relief in this moving series of essays Rachel Aviv has a profound interest in the vagaries of human psychology: Strangers to Ourselves, her last book, profiled five people whose psychiatric states resisted straightforward explanation, testing the limits of the mental health system. A Pulitzer finalist, Aviv has become known for rigorous, penetrating journalism that is as empathic as it is insightful. Now comes You Wonât Get Free of
Iâm all for the nanny state â but we should abolish fines for holidays in term time | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett (opens the original)
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Some parents are sticklers for the rules, yet mass civil disobedience by parents in England and Wales suggests many agree with me Perhaps itâs my stage of parenthood, or the fact that Iâve been lying awake at night, but I think I have an idea that could secure the electoral future of the Labour party. All Andy Burnham needs to do to win a landslide at the next general election is abolish fines for parents who take their children on term-time holidays. More than 2 million â around a fifth â
Aperol, late-night laughs â and some gritty life truths: why girlsâ trips arenât just fluffy fun | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett (opens the original)
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From Shirley Valentine to my own adventures with friends in Italy, all-women holidays offer the perfect mix of freedom and self-discovery I have just come back from a much-anticipated girlsâ holiday to Puglia, and to say that it fulfilled expectations would be an understatement. We swam, we napped, we reminisced, we ate little bits of crudo alongside lovely sips of fiano, we danced around the table of the Airbnb while singing along to Sarà perché ti amo. Most of all, we laughed, sometimes unt
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