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You're Pretty Tough For a Girl

Posted by RISEN ZINE on 27 December

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Things I've been told because I am a girl.

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Greyhound Racing: Culture or Cruelty?

Artwork: Laura Fuentes

The Truth About Domestic Violence And Christmas

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CW: Mentions of domestic abuse (verbal/physical).
Deep down you believe Christmas is kinda sacred, right? That it’s just wrong to pick a fight on Christmas Day? Everyone has this perfect version of how Christmas should go. You wake up, and maybe you don’t run to the fireplace anymore, but you unwrap your presents (all the things you’ve longed for all year) and breathe in the smell of pine. Family starts arriving at about 12, your cousins are perfectly well-behaved, none of your older relatives are at all homophobic, transphobic, sexist or racist; everybody is happy. There’s a perfectly cooked turkey on the table and plenty of pudding for afters. It looks like a scene from a Waitrose ad.
Of course this never happens. At some point during the day the cousins will have a screaming fight over a monster truck, Uncle Vernon will declare feminism is defunct and the turkey will be dry.
But for children of divorced/separated parents, Christmas is a hundred times harder. Often …

ECO-FRIENDLY BUSINESSES, pt. 1

Article by Emily and Sophie Cover photo by Frances Eridio.
The winter holidays are here so we’ve made a list of eco-friendly stores you can purchase from!
We’ve decided to include small businesses as well as larger ones, because even though they may not make the biggest changes, the littlest things make a difference.
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