by Suzi Brown | Jul 9, 2021 | Health, Personal, Sexuality
Header Image: Illustration by @piavandenbeuken Every three and a half weeks, I bleed. I am actually bleeding as I write this, as are millions of women around the world. I am not on birth control because at the moment I don’t want anything influencing my hormones...
by Suzi Brown | Jan 27, 2021 | Identity, Personal
I don’t know if it’s because I just binge-watched Bridgerton, or perhaps because my sister recently got engaged, or maybe because I’m a 28-year-old feminist, but I’ve been thinking a lot recently about marriage, and weddings, and the whole slew of sexist traditions...
by Suzi Brown | Sep 28, 2020 | Identity, Personal, Sexuality
In my late teens and early twenties, the questions of my identity weighed heavily upon me. I felt that it mattered so much how I presented myself to the world, and how others perceived me therein. To me, labels mattered a lot. I am a woman, I am a feminist, I am...
by Suzi Brown | Sep 18, 2020 | Identity, Personal, Sexuality
Look around you at the gym, the grocery store, the office or the pub; most women are wearing some kind of makeup. It’s probably just a few small things to enhance how we look naturally, but most of us feel pressure to look cute, pretty, beautiful or sexy, at all...
by Suzi Brown | Sep 8, 2020 | Personal, Philosophy
Philosophers argue that all of us are free, always. Even a prisoner is free, for they can make one of two decisions: stay where they are, or try to escape. Freedom doesn’t mean that we can do whatever we want at all times, but rather that we always have a choice—as...
