Sunday girl Issue 3

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FASHION MAGAZINE FOR INTELLECTUAL GIRLS No 3// AUTUMN/WINTER 2016

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Volume 3

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Intellectual Talk and Fashion for Girls Who Don’t Follow The Crowd

Welcome to, yep, it’s Issue 3!

Over the past few months we have had a blast making this issue and we’ve worked with lots of amazing, talented people who continue to prove that our gender kicks ass.

This issue is uncovering the heroines of our time, the girls who run the world and also the girls who moulded the world. We continue to champion girl power and give girls a place to feel united and inspired.

We can’t wait for you to turn the page and begin your journey through Issue 3.

You mean the world, as always.

We hope you enjoy reading as much as we have enjoyed creating and we look forward to presenting our next issue in Spring/Summer 17.

EDITOR | ABIGAIL DENNISON To contact us, drop us an email at hello.sundaygirlmag@outlook.com

ASSISTANT EDITOR | ELIZABETH BEH PHOTOGRAPHERS | MONTANA LOWERY, ANGELA LOWERY, KATIE SILVESTER, AMY LIDGETT, OLIVER J BILL, SARAH BURTON, NIMA ELM, ALICE WINT STYLISTS | ELIZABETH BEH, MOLLY BRIDGER, KATE SINCLAIR HAIR STYLISTS AND MUAS | CRISTINA SEGOVIA, SYLVIA DENNISON, ANGELA LOWERY, FIONA ROSE, GRACE VEE MODELS | YASMIN & SASHA @ PREMIER MODELS, MEGAN @ ELITE, MADDY @ PREMIER, MADDY & NIA @ STORM, VIVIEN @ THE SQUAD, MILLIE @ STORM, NICOLE MAGNOLIA, JULIET PINDER, JESSIE PINK, FRED @ PREMIER MODELS, JENNA @ SELECT MODELS, LILY JEAN BRIDGER @ PREMIER, ELLA DODGE @ PROFILE, AMI JACKSON WRITERS | ABIGAIL DENNISON, ELIZABETH BEH, BEATRICE HELMAN, FAY CROCKETT, ANNA SAMSON, IZZY WHITLEY, JASMINE SCOTT ILLUSTRATOR | LORNA MCINTYRE MAGAZINE LAYOUT AND GRAPHIC DESIGN | ABIGAIL DENNISON

Huge thanks to Elizabeth Beh, James Walton, Sylvia and David Dennison, Keiandra, Montana Lowery, Angela Lowery, Cristina Segoiva, Billie Marten & Team, Lauri-Beth Egerton, Bea Helman, ATS and Damsel, Annie-Lou at Premier Models, Anna Samson, The Stemettes, Izzy Whitely, Alice Wint, Lynne Aungies, Laura McBrine, Matthew Keeler, Jono AKA JCS and everyone who helped along the way!

REPRODUCTION OF SUNDAY GIRL MAGAZINE ™ IN WHOLE OR PART IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE EDITOR

Contents 6

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Keiandra

Velveteen Dream

Our Issue 3 Muse and Cover Girl

Because pink is THE BEST

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Class of Badass Bea shows us why going to an all girls college is preeeetty cool

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Girl Boss

All girl theatre company, Damsel, chats to Sunday Girl

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Girls Who Ran the World Nancy Wake is killer!

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Heroes and Heroines Anna Samson talks us through our unlikely heroines

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Being A-OK Keeping your mental health tip-top is important

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ATS X Sunday Girl American Two Shot chats with us!

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Bowling for Dollar Put on those bowling shoes

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All.Fed.Up

Billie Marten

The BOMB

We’re tired of everyday sexism and inequality

We grabbed a chat with rising super-star Billie Marten

Bomber Jackets over everything else?

IT’S OFFICIAL, WE’RE OBSESSED WITH

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This 19 year old, mega-babe singer-songwriter has well and truly got us hooked. We grabbed Keiandra, our cover star, for a chat before she hits the big time!

What originally got you into music?

I feel like I've always played music, at age 4 I was playing the glockenspiel, at 7 I took up violin, at 8, flute and I ended up in the school orchestra. I was classically trained in those instruments and I worked through school choirs to chamber choir, basically if I could get up and sing or play I was in the club. I wanted to be a marine biologist before I wanted to be a musician and I was really into the Disney show Hannah Montana when I was younger, I think I had some kind of lightbulb moment one day when I watched it and thought “Thats what I want to do ” and now I'm here.

Baby Keiandra playing the glockenspiel sounds like the cutest !! You sing like an ACTUAL angel, when did you first start making music?

I started making music when I was about 16, my dad’s friend makes guitars so he gave me one of his old ones to start to mess about with. I taught myself some basic chords and just developed from there. The tunes I used to write were so completely different to what I write now, they were just cheesy pop stuff. My sound kind of developed when I went to college and really started to push my self and get really serious about music.

any field doesn't go unnoticed so just keep going and someone, somewhere, somehow will take notice of you. Keep on, keeping on girls!

Where do you get your songwriting inspo from? Your lyrics are bea-utiful!

Lyric wise its super simple, its just my life. Most people use their experiences to write because its real, and people can connect with you. I just love that some stranger finding your music on Spotify potentially half way across the world can listen to one of my tunes and think ‘this is so me’. It’s such a special feeling, so I try and keep it really real and the best way I can do that is writing about myself, or people I've met along the way.

What's the plan for the rest of 2016? Any gigs for the diary?!

Recording, writing, releasing and I’ll pretty much do that until I physically cant write another song, or I start writing the same songs all over again. I have a new single coming out this Autumn and I'm really excited for everyone to hear that. Gig wise, I’ll be playing a few shows after the single comes out so the best way to keep up to date with those is to have a little nose about on my website to see when I announce them!

Oooh, your dream collaboration?

Your style is super cool, who's your ultimate style crush?

I’d die to work with Kevin Parker of Tame Impala, I watched them play Glastonbury this year on BBC iPlayer like 7 times and every time was just as good as the first. I like to think we’d be really good friends and drink tea and wear flip flops and just make some really cool music.

I think I've got two, I’m a huge fan of Audrey Hepburn. She was just so effortlessly cool, her cigarette pant and loafer combination are a total staple for me. Also, Elle Fanning is way cool. We’re a similar age so I feel like were on the same page.

OK, SO THAT WOULD BE BOMB! What advice would you give other girls wanting to follow their dream?

Last but not least, what do you do on Sundays?

I adopt the philosophy of “someones got to do it” when it comes to my dream and I urge you all to use it too, if you ever feel like it might never happen, a hundred people have told you it'll probably never happen and your just about to give up have a little sit down and think that “someones got to do it and why not me!” I’m a huge believer that talent in

Most Sundays I usually have a sneaky lie in, go out for a little adventure somewhere I've not been and get some yummy food. By the time I've done that its about time to watch a “sunday evening” film, which is usually a classic or a something that makes you feel all warm and fuzzy. Next on my list to watch is ‘My Fair Lady’.

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- LET’S BREAK THIS DOWN In this era of post-post fifth wave feminism…. blah blah blah......

LOL, this is definitely not that kind of article, we assure you.

Instead, we are here to offer some new vocabulary; *clears throat* equality, kindness, open-mindedness.

It’s true, the stigma around the word ‘feminism’ is slowly but surely crumbling down but, the history of the word is so complex, so multifaceted and often unclear, that it can make it difficult for girls and women to identify with it. The word perhaps came into use thanks to the suffragettes, and works its way to the present day, and the future, stopping off at the liberalism of the 70’s, Margaret Thatcher and the Chanel s/s 15’ show, which left everyone thoroughly confused. (How can an army of perfectly sculpted humans, wearing clothes that cost thousands of pounds that were designed by a roboman be a feminist stance?). One can argue that anything, literally anything, is feminist or antifeminist. And so they should as it is a massively complex issue and sadly it is something that every human has to deal with on a daily basis.

So, let’s take a moment to break it down.

You do not need to be an academic to understand gender issues, nor do you have to scream-and-shout about being a feminist to believe in equality. When I was 18, if you would have asked me if I were a feminist I would have categorically said no. In my mind feminism meant man-hating and becoming entirely non-conformist. For too long people have perceived feminism as angry, semi-masculine women being violently extreme in their feminity. In reality, there are very few of those women in existence. Another misconception is that our cushy, developed country no longer has any gender issues. As I have grown up I have educated myself and opened my mind to different possibilities, it has become so blatantly obvious that everything I once believed to be true was so wrong.

In some ways it was an upsetting realisation when I opened my eyes and really saw the oppression that women face every day because, once I noticed it, I noticed it everywhere and all the time. It can be something as flippant as a dodgy message on Tinder or as mind-bendingly unfair as (un)equal pay. The challenges that females face are relentless and it starts from such a young age. Pretty much every girl has been told that when a snotty little boy hits you round the head with a ruler it means he fancies you. That’s so messed up, that’s essen-

tially teaching young girls that if a male is cruel or violent towards you it means he is sexually interested… Not sure that’s a great messaging to be throwing out there. Girls are systematically taught that their value is held in their looks and desirability instead of their beautiful minds. And because of this industries with a gender gap include but are not exclusive to; technology, construction, science, manufacturing, architecture, engineering, management. And when I say ‘gender gap’ I mean that at the most in any of the aforementioned industries women make up to 23% of the work force. We comprise 50.89% of the population (UK Census, 2011) it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see the glaring disparity.

With a subject so complex and far-reaching, people are often left wondering what they can do. Well, in my opinion, it’s quite simple really. The best and most effective way to change things is simply to have an open dialogue about it. It is for us to speak openly and unashamedly about women’s issues.

How great would it be if we could take a tampon to the toilet without feeling humiliated? Or have a couple of visible hairs under your pits without a to fear of receiving a funny look? We have been systematically taught to be ashamed of things that our bodies naturally do and that we’re vulgar and “unlady-like” if we do have the guts to mention them. It’s a big task to unlearn everything that we have been told over and over and to teach ourselves how to fully accept and embrace who we are. But it is possible. And it is necessary. Through these simple, open conversations not only can it make a better environment for women, but it will immediately create a better world for everyone to exist. We need to stop judging ourselves and in turn we will stop judging others.

Rather than standing under the raincoat of feminism, why don’t we all stand under the huge umbrella of equality.

Where women are not damned because they were born with the wrong anatomy, minority races are not damned because their skin is the wrong shade and non-heterosexual people aren’t damned because their desires differ from the “norm”. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we lived in a world where everyone was born with equal opportunity, we came fresh out the womb and could carefully stitch together our own lives, knowing that we are no more or less than anyone else in the world.

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EVERYTHING YOU SAY MATTERS, JUST BECAUSE YOU SAY IT. GIRLS ARE STRONG AS HELL AND TOUGH AS DIAMONDS. BABES FOREVER. - BEATRICE HELMAN

The plant died two months in because I kept forgetting to water it and also let it bake in the blistering New York City sun without relief. But I was happy. I did find people who were like me. I did find friends. I also found feminism.

I have always been the kind of person who revels in community. I love being a local. As a kid who grew up with strangers as neighbors, I dreamed of living in a small town where everyone knew each other, or at least in an apartment building where doors were always open. I had searched for it in high school only to realize that the price wasn’t worth the prize, and that inclusion and community aren’t the same thing. I just didn’t know that my community, my biggest supporters, were all around me, right in front of my eyes. And then I got to Barnard College. Right from the start it was, this is your community. Women are your community. We are your community. We have your back. We believe in you. The world isn’t fair, but you can change it.

This patriarchal world wasn’t made by us or for us, but it’s ours to reshape, and we can make our own rules. Everything you say matters, just because you say it. We’re your people. Girls rock. Girls are strong as hell and tough as diamonds. Babes forever.

There are a few things that I imagine can only happen at an all girls school, at a place so sure of its womanhood and so sure of its sisterhood. School wide emails that are addressed to the ‘strong, bold, beautiful women,’ of the college. Walking into the dining hall and seeing only girls, just so many girls, of all kinds. Walking into school events and seeing only girls. Having the president of your college publish a book about what having it all really means, as a woman. Feeling like your teachers are the moms you never had. Having a wing of the main hall be designated for a leadership program that is at the front of feminist leadership and thought. Hearing the word feminist at least a hundred times a day, in the classroom, at breakfast, walking down the street, arguing at the local bar. Being able to check feminist zines out of the library like every library has a collection spanning decades.

Joan Rivers said: “I always loved Barnard because the girls never wanted to be something; they were. A girl didn’t want to be a poetess; she was a poet.”

Barnard didn’t let me sit around and think about who I wanted to be. Instead, it taught me to be who I wanted to be, so that when I graduated I didn’t want to be who I would be; I already had the first markings of who I was. I didn’t eventually want to be a writer. I was a writer. I didn’t want to be a feminist; I was one. Barnard expected a lot from me, as a student and as a woman. I had never had someone expect that of me before.

Barnard was founded in 1889, one of the original Seven Sisters colleges, along with Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley. In 1983, Columbia College began admitting women and attempted to incorporate Barnard, much the same way that Radcliffe was absolved into Harvard University. Barnard said no thanks, and continued on, affiliated with Columbia but very much it’s own institution. Independence was, and has remained, the name of the game. At Barnard, I met girls who were individuals. I met girls who thought for themselves and by themselves.

There’s something magical about making choices. They can help define who you are to yourself, and bind you to other people who have made similar decisions. The decision to go to an all girls school meant that no matter who you were and where you were from, we all had something in common. We were all here. We had all chosen to be here, over being somewhere else. It was the first place I felt a kinship with people that I didn’t know, just because we had all made the same very specific choice, to go to this college that was small and liberal and female.

It was the first place I felt safe and the first place I learned not to apologize for who I am. Before that, I never realized how much time I spent apologizing. A lot of time. It was the first place I would have feelings and accept every single one of them, loud and proud and without shame. I would embrace my body for the very fact that it got me through the day, and find it gorgeous for it’s dips and curves and craters. I wouldn’t let anyone tell me I deserved any less. I would be able to explain to the boy that called me at two thirty in the morning that I was a brain that happened to be attached to a body, not a body with maybe a brain attached, somewhere.

It taught me not to be sorry, and also that it was okay to like pink if I wanted to. It was okay to not. It was okay to want to wear dresses, and it was okay to want to never see high heel ever again in my life time. It taught me that there is no mold, and that just because girls might be socialized to prefer one color over another, that doesn’t mean I have to.

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I didn’t choose to go to an all girls college because it was an all girls college. I chose to go there almost in spite of that. I wasn’t concerned with feminism. I was concerned with keeping my tomato plant alive, whether or not I would make friends, if I would find people who were like me, if I would be happy.

It taught me things I didn’t even know I didn’t know. It laid everything on the table. This is what you’re up against, this is what’s wrong with the way society works, this is why.

I would look at photos of the other girls who went to Barnard, old back and whites, and my heart would ache to know them, to talk to them to hear about their friendships and understand the world that they lived in, and then to show them what had changed, what was possible now.

When I tell people I went to Barnard, I get a lot of questions. I get a lot of opinions.

It was all girls?

But what about the boys?

What about them?

Didn’t you miss having them around?

No.

How were you supposed to meet them? Did people have boyfriends? Did you miss having them around?

Yes, people had boyfriends.

But it’s right across from a coed school, so at least that’s okay.

I actually don't feel like I need to have boys around to feel like my existence is worthy and validated.

But what about dating?

What about it?

I’m used to having to defend my choice. I’m used to having to say, it was all girls, but there were boys. Don’t worry, they were still around; don’t worry, there was still a chance to meet a husband, a partner. No need to panic; we weren’t just on our own, confined to our own gender. How horrible that would be, how boring, what a nightmare. There were still opportunities to meet potential boyfriends, because if we weren't going to meet them in college, then when would we? To have a place that’s all female and entirely unconcerned with men, with socializing with them, seeing them, hearing their opinions, that would be impossible. Much safer have some boys running around, just in case we all start stabbing each other in the back and being shrill, in case we’re too emotional and catty to get along with each other.

I’ve spent hours of my life, over and over, explaining and explaining and explaining.

Until one day I started leaving out the but.

Hi, I went to Barnard. Yes it’s all girls, yes it’s still possible to meet boys, but I didn’t go there to meet boys. I didn’t go there to meet someone to marry, or even to have fun with for the night. Boys are everywhere. It’s not hard to find one. I don’t spend my time in spaces based on how many boys might also exist in those spaces. I went there to learn from the best, to surround myself with people who were different than me, the same as me, far more brilliant and passionate than I was. I went there to be inspired by badass ladies and to feel validated as a woman living in a world where the boys in my high school rated girls by body, on a scale that they held up against an idealized woman that was photoshopped and possibly never real to begin with.

I stopped apologizing for being my own priority. I no longer apologize for period stains and not waxing. I’m a girl with a real human body, so that’s that. I don’t apologize for walking away from conversations where women are being marginalized and I don’t apologize for running away from men who think they have any claim to female bodies that are not their own. I woke up every day to a place that celebrated me, celebrated being a girl and told me that it was lucky to have been born the way that I was. I woke up every day to other girls who didn’t have time for sexism or for indulging misogyny. I existed alongside women who understood that women supporting other women was essential to survival, to success and to thriving as a community. I ate lunch under banners that proclaimed women were strong and beautiful. I had teachers who hadn’t worn bras in forty years and weren’t about to start.

Before Barnard, I identified as a lot of things. Sister, daughter, friend, photographer, a one day writer, yogi, girlfriend.

Now, I identify as a girl. It’s the single most important factor in who I am. I walk around the world with Barnard lenses on.

Thanks to Barnard, I learned that my voice matters, as an individual and a woman. And that as an individual, I am one hundred percent woman.

It also taught me that girls really do rule the world.

- Words By Beatrice Helman

MY COACH SAID I RUN LIKE A GIRL. AND I SAID IF HE RAN A LITTLE FASTER HE COULD TOO. - MIA HAMM

TEENAGE KICKS

(Guitar intro) Are teenage dreams so hard to beat?

Song and Lyrics: The Undertones Photographer: Amy Lidgett Shoot Direction: Abigail Dennison Stylist: Molly Bridger Stylist Assistant: Elizabeth Beh MUA: Cristina Segovia Models: Sasha & Yasmin @ Premier and Megan @ Elite

Everytime she walks down the street

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Wish she was mine, she looks so good

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Girl Boss HANNAH HAUER-KING & KITTY WANDSWORTH

Damsel is an all-female theatre company composed of Hannah Hauer-King and Kitty Wordswoth. Together, these inspirational girls are making waves in the London theatre scene. They solely set their focus on female writers and tell stories that fully represent women. They are unapologetic in their approach and refuse to censor their work. At the heart of their productions are real human relationships that are never sugar coated or simplified, yet, within their work is a lightness and a comedy that shines through. Having only directed and produced two plays they have already seen an incredible response and success. Their first critically acclaimed production Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel is “set in the girls’ locker room of a Florida high school, Dry Land is a play about abortion, sexuality, bodies, swimming and an unlikely friendship put to the most extreme of tests.” Their second, Fury by Phoebe Eclair-Powell is a powerful modern re-telling of Medea. Set on a Peckham council estate, it grapples with the issues of class and a single mother trying to make her way in a world ruled by men.

One sunny afternoon we met with the girls to talk to them not only about female representation in theatre (and in general) but how they built their brand and what the future holds:

- Words and Interview By Elizabeth Beh

How did you meet and what made you want to started damsel?

Hannah: Kitty and I met when I was doing Dry Land. I needed a producer so, Kitty and I were connected by my Aunt jenny who is also involved in theatre. She said that we would work really well together. So kitty was producing Dry Land and we thought it would be helpful to set up a company to support the project.

Kitty: It was two-fold really, it was to support the project and also off the back of [the project’s] success that we were able to set it up.

Hannah: We brought together this company quite organically that was exclusively made of woman and we thought maybe that’s our tagline, maybe that's our ethos and we got really excited by it so we positioned ourselves as that. And then there was this amazing response that neither of us anticipated and we were just so happy that this was happening. Everyone told me “you should set up a theatre company” and I never wanted to, I didn’t know how, I didn't know what that meant but this happened in a way that was very organic and in a way that just made sense and now we just keep building on our ethos and who we are and it’s really exciting.

Kitty: And what feels really special too is that I feel our company is made through our plays, through the work, instead of the other way round.

Where did the name Damsel come from?

Hannah: That was Kitty’s idea we started out as WKH Productions which sounded like a weird multinational corporate business.

Kitty: and then mixed in with an alcopop…

Hannah: So Kitty came up with Damsel which is something that has really worked for us in terms of branding.

Kitty: And it’s the whole concept of reclaiming something.

Damsel in distress, it’s obviously ironic.

I never got to see Dry Land but, through reading reviews it kind of got tagged as the abortion play, how do you feel about that?

Hannah: It blows my mind. It’s obviously a big part of the narrative but when I was thinking about this play I never thought of it as a play about abortion. I think it’s just really revealing about people, there are so many other things going on, there’s stuff about; sexuality, female friendships, absence of parents, all this other stuff was happening and the fact that people latched onto that drove me mad. Everyone said ‘why are you doing these really over-the-top, controversial plays?’ Actually, we watch violence and rape on the stage all the time and we don’t bat an eye lid. Then this happens and every is so shocked

Kitty: and abortion is something that happens every day.

Hannah: Exactly. The way that we did it, I don’t want to say safe, I’m really proud of the way we staged that scene but it was not the most graphic version at all. We really did it in a way that felt true without being over-the-top. It wasn’t pro or anti-abortion, it just was.

Kitty: We do plays about relationships and people and all the other stuff just comes out underneath it. It’s really just what life is about, it’s human. It’s about human relationships.

Do you think women are underrepresented in theatre?

Hannah: Yeah, it’s getting better. It’s obviously an amazing thing that it’s getting better but sometimes there is a degree of complacency. “Oh, there are some more female writers out there now, so what are we worried about?” “Oh, the artistic director of this theatre is a woman…” When really there is so much work still to be done and often its focused around the fringe theatre circuit where female representation is getting better but if you look at the west end and opera then women are no-where, female choreographers, there basically aren't any. If you look at the Olivier nominations for design there is again, such a lack of women, no female director nominees which is crazy. So it’s interesting to see why people are letting women into the fringe theatre but still not onto the higher echelons. I’d love to think in 15 years that Damsel will have to adapt their ethos again because what we’re doing is going to be quite common place, great! But, sadly, we’re not there yet.

Kitty: I’m really excited to see the ever changing landscape of the world and I’m really hoping that our company will grow as the world becomes a less sexist place and hopefully we can be a part of that movement, from the fringe to the more commercial plays and not have to censor ourselves. We want to present play’s that challenge people, tell honest stories about women, give honest representations of women and put them in front of larger audiences.

What are you working on next?

Hannah: In August 2016 there will be a re-launch for Live At Zedel. Damsel is an associate company with the venue and I programme all the theatre, comedy and cabaret in the venue.

A week following this interview we were luckily enough to go and see Fury, it was haunting, synesthetic and full-immersive, completely unlike anything else we had seen in the theatre. The themes and the issues of the play stayed with me well after we had watched it. Damsel is paving the way for female theatre, they allow women to be vulnerable and flawed which is so often not the case. When we met Hannah and Kitty they were both exhausted, concerned and excited with their looming press night (which would turn out wonderfully) but what struck me was their undeniable positivity. They are never put off by set-backs and refuse to shy away from hard work. Watch out for these girls because they’re destined for big things.

Computers, engineering and the future – the next generation of technical geniuses are already in training

They might sound like a 1960s motown girlband, but aside from being made up of trailblazing young women, the Stemettes couldn’t be more different. Swap the singing for coding and the hairstyles for hackathons and you’re getting closer.

The Stemettes is an organisation with the aim of encouraging more girls into the STEM fields of study and work – science, technology, engineering and mathematics. As it stands, women only make up 14% of the STEM workforce – Stemettes have the mission statement of raising this to 30% and beyond.

Anne-Marie Imafidon is the brain behind the Stemettes – and by brain we really mean brain - she was the youngest girl ever to pass A-Level computing when she was 11, and one of the youngest people ever to earn a Masters degree from the University of Oxford at the age of 20. After joining the workforce and realising how under-represented women were in these industries, she decided it was time to instigate some change, and so the Stemettes was born.

The Stemettes host events all over the UK with the aim of not only encouraging girls into technological industries, but sometimes allowing them to interact with the STEM fields for the first time ever. Young girls can be impressionable, which works both for them and against them – they might be tempted to go with the crowd when it comes to interests, but if they find themselves in an inspiring environment surrounded by likeminded girls, then that might be enough to make a lasting impression and kickstart a lifelong passion.

The events held by Stemettes range from hackathons to workshops and seminars. Girls from the age of seven are given the chance to meet women who have moulded their interests into careers; opportunities to interact with academic role models in the flesh who aren’t just their teachers. Questions are encouraged – these aren’t dry lectures, but interactive, hands-on experiences.

Of course, it’s easy to see the benefits that will hopefully follow within a few years, as the little Stemettes grow up. With more girls, the STEM industries, become more diverse – this is not only good for equality, but it also moves the industries forward in another way. With a wider range of minds, new ideas are produced, challenged and improved upon, leading to more breakthroughs and new innovations. Add to that the nurturing, inclusive and supportive environment that the Stemettes have created, and it’s become clear: the sisterhood is going digital.

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Up to 3 million women and girls across the UK experience rape, domestic violence, stalking, or other violence each year.

Around 1 in 10 (120 million) girls worldwide have experienced sexual violence at some point in their lives.

Over 700 million women alive today were married when they were under 18, and of those some 250 million were married before they were 15.

Up to 30,000 women are sacked each year simply for being pregnant.

Worldwide women are paid less than men, in most countries earning on average 60 - 75% of men’s wages.

Research on UK media found that men typically outnumber women as ‘experts’ by 4:1 on major TV and radio programmes across channels.

Globally, women make up just 22% of parliamentarians.

Only 7.4% of countries have had female heads of states over the last 50 years.

Facts and stats from www.ukfeminista.org.uk and www.womankind.org.uk

WHERE WILL GIRLS BE?

We are afraid of the future. We all are. We fear being left behind, we fear things happening too fast or too slow, we fear the ‘baddies’ in life, we fear that our lives won’t match up to our dreams. I certainly fear bringing a baby into this world, a world that I have struggled in so much, just because I have a vagina. I fear it to the point where I don’t even know if I want to have a girl, in case I had to watch her go through all that I have and not be able to do anything, because I still don’t understand half of it. But you can’t be controlled by fear, it will consume you. We have to face it head on.

I know that in 5 years time we won’t fully have equality in this country, let alone the rest of the world. Society’s way of conditioning girls to the point that their choices and decisions are not ‘theirs’ is very real. Women affect women and girls learn from the women in their lives. Things have got better and also worse since women in the older generation were girls, even since I was a girl. Though after going through the years of sexualization, oppression and generally being forced to believe we are not good enough, it is very hard to believe otherwise.

What I am doing with ‘That’s What She Said’ is trying to bring up a new generation of girls who can fight this conditioning, who can question society and be the mothers, teachers and leaders that change our society.

Though in 5 years time these girls will only be between 18 and 23 so I think that’s a bit too much to ask. While finding my feet in this feminist world, I have met some of the most incredible young women that have an unrelenting drive to create change. They will not be beaten down and will not give up so, change is coming people, but like troops into battle, but this will take time. I hope with ‘Thatswhatss’ giving these girls a platform to speak out and learn that they will not put up with what we did. I hope that I, and many others, will have given them the tools and resources they need to create a better society for the next generation. A big part of ‘Thatswhatss’ is teaching these girls how important this is and sometimes it is even showing them what has happened to them. It is a quite a shocking moment when you realise how much you have been manipulated and that all of these feelings you’ve had and experiences you’ve been through are not actually your fault.

In five years time, I hope we have infiltrated the corporate and media world to change how companies and brands engage with girls. I hope that feminism has become the ‘new normal’ and a movement that all girls and hopefully boys want to fight for. Ultimately I hope there is less fear, less self-destruction and less hatred.

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VELVETEEN DREAM - Photography By Alice Wint - Styling and Clothing

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This was a significant promotion, but because she was the first and only senior female cryptanalyst, bureaucracy had no protocols to give her a raise. Thus, she was classed as a linguist and from there on she filled the forms with “grade: linguist, languages: none� (and even then she was paid less than her male colleagues).

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With the appearance of a true 1940's bombshell, Nancy Wake seems like a Classical Hollywood movie star. Yet, she actually served as a secret agent during WWII to help bring down Hitler's Nazism, at one point riding a bicycle 310 miles through Nazi hotspots! She helped to free many captured British allies and even flew like Supergirl when she was parachuted into France where she expanded an anti-Nazi (marquis) group to almost 8000 members. Nancy was that unstoppable, that at one point she was the most wanted person by the secret Nazi Police (oh, who she later led an attack on, by the way). Nancy saved many lives and stayed glamorous, showing us just how strong girls are. What a hero!

- Words By Fay Crockett

THEORY OF A YOUNG GIRL RUNAWAY SERIES Sometimes you’ve been kicking around your same town for so long, all you can do is talk about leaving without leaving, until one day you have no choice and you know that you’ll throw up if you stay and that leaving is the only way - and that your soul has already left your town behind -

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My legs had been restless for a while. The kind of restless where it’s hard to sleep at night, where your muscles cry and cry and cry. I was constantly shaking, vibrating under the sheets, kicking my heels. I woke up in the middle of the night all the time. I started walking in circles around my room. I would sit on the floor and watch the translucent pink of dawn slip in through the window and climb the walls.

It was a sticky summer, a molasses and quicksand summer, the kind where it feels like you’re swimming just to stay in place. It was hot that summer, so hot, and my mother would be out there sitting by the pool with those tiny plastic portable fans, blowing at her through that riveting heat. It would get so hot that you could see waves of hot air shimmering in the parking lot, like sheets of blown glass, clear enough to see through but thick enough so that you knew you were looking through something. That was how the entire thing felt, actually. Clear and yet not clear at all. We would sit in the movie theater hallways and shuffle through the supermarket aisles, which were usually so cold my skin would turn purple and the cold air would linger on my toes long after we were chased out and pushed back into the sunlight.

I would sit on my front steps and do nothing but notice that it was very quiet, and think about how scared I was to leave but how I couldn’t stay, that I had done all the growing up here I was going to do, that nothing more would happen.

I planned my escape very carefully. I ciphered apples from the kitchen. I stole bags of nuts and the applesauce my mom liked to eat while watching TV and I lined it all up the night before I the day I had chosen to leave and was very satisfied with the look of it. I had found enough change in the kitchen drawers and my parent’s pockets to buy one tracksuit, and it was blue like the sky that summer. I packed underwear and two packages of spearmint toothpaste. I wrote my parents a letter explaining I would call them when I got to the nearest biggest city, and that I would be taking the bus. I left at four thirty the next morning, the last day I would be seventeen, and I could see my curtains blowing through the window from the driveway before I turned and ran away.

Sometimes leaving is so hard you have no choice but to go and run as fast as you can.

The bus had those bus seats, grey with a red pattern and just tilted a little bit backwards, so that passengers could sleep or just curl up like cats staring out the window.

It let me off in a tiny town that I had never stopped in before. It had a row of stores lined up and on the other side of the street, one restaurant and at the end a gas station. Most of the stores were empty and a few had been broken into or left to be broken into, with cracked glass and no owners. One had been torn down and standing in it’s place was a pile of cement and someone had tied their horse up to the empty window. It was brown like a chestnut right when you break it out of the shell, when it’s still soft. The gas station was the only place really open at all, one of those gas stations where they serve breakfast and coffee and have giant freezers of ice cream and also fireworks for sale. There were seven trucks parked outside and a few cars with passengers sitting on the hoods, licking ice cream drops off their wrists in the nine o’clock sun and eating tiny fried rice crackers by the handful, scattering little pretzels all over the ground. I had barely any money, just enough for a meal a day, but it seemed to me that it was busy enough that nobody would mind if I had an ice cream sandwich for breakfast and that maybe I would blend in with the other people who wanted ice cream sandwiches for breakfast.

I wasn’t sure how to go about it, because I had never gone about it before, but I had an idea. I sidled in and I wandered the aisles and I let keychains and tootsie rolls slip through my fingers until the lady at the cash register, a lady with the longest nails I had ever seen, was busy and then I reached in, just right under the hood, and I took it. I took it and put it in my pocket and I could feel it starting to melt already.

So I sat down in the corner and I ate it right there in the aisle. Nobody noticed or seemed to care at all, except for my thundering heart. It beat and beat and screamed at me, to eat faster and to lick my fingers and then to get up off the floor and to hide, to run away as fast as possible, and there was nowhere to hide except for the bathroom, which looked like a silver cube and had a padlock on the front but it wasn’t actually locked so people could go in there and pee and kiss and sleep, maybe.

I didn’t do any of those things. I just stood there against the wall, shaking and not sure, licking my fingers and feeling like a tiny dot in a world made up of dots but also like nobody would ever find me there, and like the world was reverberating around me, in that metal box.

When I did leave, the trucks had pulled away and the other ice cream eaters were gone, and it was just me.

I sat down on the curb to wait for the next bus, the bus that would take me to the nearest biggest city.

It felt like I was a flower at dawn, blooming and blushing and covered in dew drops. Awakening.

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HEROES AND HEROINES As we grow up and mature, we change our minds about who we look up to. Anna Samson discusses how her heroes have morphed, and why it’s okay to find them in unlikely places.

Ask a four year old what she wants to be when she grows up, and she will probably tell you that she wants to be a princess.

Little girls have looked up to the leading ladies of the Disney world since Snow White pirouetted her way onto screens in the 1920s, and continue to be mesmerised by a combination of swirling candy coloured dresses, long hair and a fundamentally docile nature. These are a girls’ first role models after their parents, and it’s not hard to see that they occupy a space much more glamorous than the woman who cleans up after a finger-painting session.

So for the first few years of their lives, girls are treated to little other than a technicolour myth, one which encourages them to aspire to become part of monarchies that don’t even exist. While boys dream of being firemen or superheroes, girls are pushed towards tiaras rather than armour, charmingness rather than a will to change the world. Aged seven I wanted to be Belle so badly that I felt like I might burst thinking about her beautiful castle.

As I grew out of fairytales, my attention moved onto popstars – for me it was Atomic Kitten, for girls now it’s Little Mix and Taylor Swift. But really they are just princesses in a marginally more realistic form - still celebrated for their prettiness and talents for singing nicely. So aged about 14 I decided it was time to react against this, ripping the pictures of my favourite girlbands down from my locker and throwing them into the bin. I wanted my heroes to have substance, to have earned their place as my role model. When asked who I admired, I’d say Virginia Woolf, despite having never read anything written by her – I knew she was a woman I was meant to look up to, and this was enough for me. Or Marie Curie, in an act of defiance against anyone I even suspected thought that girls weren’t as good at science as boys. Both of these women are incredible, of course, but I didn’t really know why.

This misdirection is probably why, a year later, I decided to reject the idea of heroes altogether. In English class we were assigned to do a talk entitled “My Hero” and, convinced I was making an ironic statement, I did mine about Wonder Woman – because why would I have a real life hero? It showed a childishness, a lack of confidence in my own abilities and an earnestness that just wasn’t ‘cool’.

That was a mistake - because there’s something to be said for knowing who your heroes are. Not only does it mean you have a readymade answer for the “dream dinner party” conundrum question, you also learn something about yourself if you can pinpoint what it is about people that makes you look up to them. They can give you something to aim for when you lack motivation, or at the very least serve to remind you what you value on a number of levels.

So who are my heroes now? A ramshackle menagerie too long to list, a curiosity shop stuffed full of women I know, don’t know, and some fictional characters who don’t even exist at all. I greatly admire the writing of journalist Camilla Long, and the way she moulds sentences – but I also adore Kate Moss for a sense of aesthetic that has directly led me to a love of fashion, and ultimately a career that meshes together these two fields.

Because if you see a trait worth admiring, something that appeals to a part deep inside of you, then of course that person can be a hero – whether it is the wit of a writer or the dedication of a supermodel. Gigi Hadid and Caitlin Moran are not mutually exclusive – so place them both up there and next to your mother, Cate Blanchett, your French teacher and Mary Beard if you want to. If, on reflection, you see more in Cinderella than just a blue evening gown, then that’s alright, and it’s also okay if your heroic list is in a constant state of flux - because so are you. Put up posters and join fanclubs, if that’s what you want, or don’t if it’s not. And remember that it’s what we can learn from our heroes, what they show us about ourselves and how that influences us as people, that truly matters.

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North East born, Billie Marten is set for huge huge things. At the tender age of 17, this girl has already been called an “adolescent prodigy” by the folks at BBC Music. Her breathy, earthy yet vulnerable tone sends CHILLS, especially on our favourite song Bird. Having performed many festivals over the summer of 2016, it’s fair to say Billie has well and truly hit the music scene and she’s not going anywhere soon. Be sure to attend one of her early shows as you don’t want to regret it when she will be performing sold out shows at the O2.

This has all been a whirlwind, were you expecting such a great response when you first started out on your venture into music?

Absolutely not. How can you expect something so ridiculous? I never started out with the intention of doing this. So now, waking up and going to play festivals or recording or being played on radio is just something i'll never get my head around.

How was performing along side Carole king in Hyde Park?

It was great. Incredibly laid back festival, the people were listening so well considering the size of it. Got to see Carole's show afterwards as well which we all enjoyed. What a woman.

Milk and Honey is beautiful, where did that writing inspiration come from?

Thinking of ideas about greed and the obsession with consumption/consumerism that everyone seems to have nowadays - how some peoples' priorities lie with purely income and not much else really. It was also inspired by that Dorothy Parker poem with the line 'we shall live on milk and honey and never know the need of money'.

If you could only listen to one album for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Either In Rainbows, Grace, or Hunky Dory.

What advice would you give to girls who want to do what your doing?

Trust the gut. Don't think you have to change or manipulate yourself for anyone else.

How is it balancing school and your music?

Alright actually - Obviously it gets difficult around exams etc. but everyone has separate things beside music that keep them a little bit normalised so it's essential for me to carry on doing I think.

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Somewhere living as a recluse in Iceland/cornwall/robin hood's bay with a few alpacas would be THE DREAM.

PHOTOGRAPHER - KATIE SILVESTER SHOOT DIRECTION - ABIGAIL DENNISON STYLIST - MOLLY BRIDGER STYLIST - ELIZABETH BEH MUA - CRISTINA SEGOVIA MODEL - BILLIE MARTEN HAIR - SYLVIA @ CHINTZ HAIR SALON WITH THANKS TO SOUNDS THAT SWING RECORD STORE, CAMDEN

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There are a lot of really cool stores in New York City. And there are a lot of really cool stores in Soho, shopping mecca of New York City. But American Two Shot is the coolest. I would take the subway downtown in college to order coffee and sit at the coffeeshop that runs against one wall of the store, watching the cool kids socialize and shop for printed tops ands dresses to go with their sneakers. I didn’t even drink coffee. Store owners Steph Krasnoff and Olivia Wolfe, who met growing up in Miami, opened ATS in 2012 and are just the kind of badass ladies that have an eye for the clothes other badass ladies want to wear.

They stock their store with small labels, labels that they care about, labels that other people aren’t carrying.

Olivia, angel from the heavens that she is, sat down and talked with us for a little bit about all the important things: being a girl, what she was wearing at ten years old, and her mom.

How did clothing feature into your childhood?

I grew up in Miami, and I think like most kids, I was just a sponge with the influences around me. Miami is a very colorful, very cultural place to grow up, so I think seeing a lot of different types of faces and eating a lot of different types of food made me curious from the get-go. I will look back at pictures and see a skirt or a shirt that I remember wearing on REPEAT for a time. Who knows what the draw was, but I think the interesting part is that there *was* a draw. For some reason, I was attracted to something about the garment - whether it was the color or the fit or the comfort I felt in it, maybe a mix of it all. A lot of mom memories in there also, because my mom was a police detective for most of my life, so I’d watch her wear everything from her plain clothes with a badge and holster look (which was coincidentally usually Ralph Lauren lol) and then watch her change out of that and put on a beautiful evening gown or a t shirt and shorts to take me bike riding. This all influenced my way of thinking in that I saw this woman who could do whatever she wanted to do, and did whatever she wanted to do. There were no boundaries (other than my curfew) and I think that the way you dress is sometimes just a by-product of your life views.

What were you wearing at 10? 15? 20? Now? At 10 I was swearing a lot of t shirts, shorts, and dresses. I was never a kid who only wore one type of thing. I think I enjoyed being able to wear all different types of clothes and feel different in all of them. At 15 I was definitely more self-conscience, unfortunately, as I think many 15 year olds end up being, but I noticed myself becoming more interested in textures and shapes than anything else. I would show up to a girlfriends house and they’d all laugh at me trying to figure out how or why I thought my outfit looked cool, but I just enjoyed wearing certain things. Ironically, 20 was my sartorial low point. I was in college, on my own, and really buying quantity over quality. It took me a few years to learn how to estimate the worth of something; not the cost, but the worth, so 20 included a lot of cheaply made garments that I have long since given away. Now, I’m not totally sure where I am because I'm in it, but I feel pretty comfortable so that must be a good sign. I still dress however I want, whenever I want. I’m not a person with a “uniform” as I hear many fashion people say (am I a fashion person?? I don’t think I am!?). Right now I’m wearing jeans and sneakers, a loose knit tank from rag and bone that I bought 8 years ago, and a bomber from American Two Shot that we recently made with OBEY. Tomorrow may be this exact same outfit, or something on the opposite end of the spectrum. We’ll have to wait and see what tomorrow brings!

with customers and hanging with employees, other days we’re in the basement managing our website and different platforms. and now we take the weekends off, always.

ATS has it’s own line — how did that come about?

Starting our own line was WAY harder than expected! We knew from before we even opened that one day we’d love to try and produce some clothing, but we wanted to make everything in America and here in lies the challenge. It was important for us to know who was making our clothing, the conditions they work in etc., and it’s a lot easier to fly to LA than it is to China. But learning about an industry we knew nothing about was challenging, and people really don't make it easy to produce domestically at a reasonable cost. We just kept going, by trial and error mostly, to figure it out. We are still learning and making mistakes (and hopefully learning from those mistakes!)

Okay, so in terms of inspiration. Lets talk.

Inspiration comes when it damn well feels like it, and trying to control that process, I’ve found, is fruitless. The best advice I have to give to anyone in any creative industry is to not feel defeated if and WHEN your inspiration well is dry. It invariably comes back, but when you try and force it, it only takes longer. Don't fight the dry spell, use the time to be productive in other arenas of your life.

Do you feel that your personal and professional worlds are separate or that they bleed into each other?

Oh it’s one big bleed, but I love it. It’s really so fun to get to work with friends and inspire each other. We have gotten to use ATS as a platform for our friends to show work, and much more often simply become friends with people we met through work.

As long as everyone remembers that friendship is friendship and work is work, it’s all good. The way we treat people we work with and our friends isn’t any different - we try and communicate clearly and with respect, and everything else usually falls into place.

Dream outfit for a dream meal?

Dream outfit - I can’t. I would have like 9 costume changes, including my favorite pajamas, a favorite evening dress, jeans and a hoodie, something of my moms, something of my grandmothers. I can’t choose one! Accordingly, with each costume change would come a different course - ice cream, roast veggies, a fish course, a burger and fries (no bun pls) and my mom’s lasagna.

What are some landmark career moments?

What’s some of your favorite music to listen to while you work?

Some land mark career moments include still being open after 4 and a half years!! Not even a joke. Often when people ask how the store is doing, I say “we’re still open!” and they’re not always sure how to respond so they just awkwardly laugh, but it’s a pretty good feeling to be paying our bills and rent in Soho every month, let me tell you!

Also amazed and grateful everyday that my business partner is who she is. We have been friends for decades and knew that going into business together was a risk (to our friendship especially) but it has been wonderful. In owning your own business, there will always be mistakes made. We’ve made PLENTY and i could laundry list them, but I think the bigger lesson isn’t “how do I avoid making mistakes” but “how do I bounce back and learn from the mistakes I will inevitably make”.

Oh all over the place, but a lot of hip hop (shout out Kanye and Drake and Kari faux), a lot of jazz (shout out Ellington and Coltrane and Count Basie), a lot of mix tapes (shout out so super Sam and Japancakes) and a lot of pod casts (shout out great debates and Juan EP).

Where did the idea for the store come from?

The idea for the store seemed to hatch over night. One day we said to ourselves “hey a place like this doesn’t seem to exist maybe we should make it” and the next day we were trying to figure out how to make a business plan. the next 6-8 months moved pretty quickly.

How do you feel about being your own boss?

Being your own boss is great, but there are pros and cons to it. I think people assume sometimes that Steph and I can do whatever we want “because we are our own boss”.

A guy recently alluded to my being able to take a month off because I’m my own boss and I was like “no honey that ain’t how this works!”. Being your own boss feels exciting and fun and strong on the good days, and scary and overwhelming on the bad days.

When something goes wrong, it’s ALL on you. People look to you for answers, and expect them. If you don't have an answer for them, you have to figure it out. It’s a lot of responsibility, but also very rewarding. Our days now are VERY different from the start of the store. The first two years, Steph and I were both working the floor 7 days a week.

Even once we knew we were getting burned out, it felt very difficult to be away, both of us feeling a strange sense of guilt to not be working non stop. Luckily, we got over that.

Now are days vary a ton - some days we are at the store on the floor all day catching up

Spirit animal?

One of those 5 year olds that does something whacky in a vine and becomes a meme celebrity.

Can you talk a little bit about how you feel about being a woman in the fashion industry?

My sense of feminism isn’t fueled by working in fashion particularly, but perhaps more so by being a business owner. In the past I worked in industries that were overwhelmingly male (film and art) and I was more acutely aware then of being the only girl in the room. As I’ve gotten older, whether I’m the only woman around, or surrounded by other women, I just think it’s important to find my voice, make it heard, and listen to other people as well. I love supporting other women in their ventures, because I know it’s not always easy. I have had some damn fine role models though, in both my mother and grandmother. I grew up with some fabulously chic no bullshit matriarchs.

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- Photography By Alice Wint - Styling and Clothing

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Layering and slip dresses were all over the runway at Rochas, Dries Van Noten, Louis Vuitton and Valentino during February’s fashion week, with slip dresses over every-thang.

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A GIRL’S GUIDE TO BEING OK Every year, one in four adults experiences a mental health issue with women almost twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. Even if you're pretty healthy, things like pressure at work, uni stress or an unhappy relationship can cause you to feel emotionally under the weather.

It's normal to have days where you feel blue, or worry a bit too much about stupid things, but if you feel like those negative emotions are becoming too much to handle, it's time to take action and think about just how well you are looking after yourself.

Taking a break can seem like the worst thing to do when there are deadlines piling up, or parties to go to, but it is important to listen to what your body is trying to tell you. It's easy to forget to look after yourself when the world is such an overwhelming place.

The most important factors in self-care are food, sleep and communication, so as tempting as lying alone on the sofa watching First Dates and eating Dominos is, it may not be what your body and mind need to feel better.

A healthy sleeping pattern can be a hard thing to achieve, but it's easy to make changes to your bedtime routine. My magic combination for a solid eight hours is a long bath complete with Lush bath bomb, a massive mug of Horlicks and watching make up tutorials on YouTube. Other people swear by a good book and lavender oil. Experiment and find out what works for you.

It may seem difficult to go a few hours without tagging your best mate in ridiculous memes or crying over Kylie Jenner's dogs on Snapchat, but a short detox from social media can do wonders for a stressed-out brain. Go outside, breathe deeply and observe your thoughts as they happen, this will help slow-down your racing thought patterns and help you understand how and why you feel the way you do. Walking without a destination or the distraction of your phone is great to help unwind a tangled mind.

Most importantly, talk to someone about how you feel. Don't let those negative thoughts pile-up in your brain without release. Your problems may seem silly, overblown or irrelevant to you, but somebody will understand and want to help you talk through them.

- Words By Jasmine Scott

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THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID Whilst scrolling through our instagram home feed earlier this year, amongst the peppering of ‘#WIW ’s and ‘#fromwhereistand’s and our personal favourite ‘#ihavethisthingwithfloors’, something else caught our eye...

Izzy Whiteley is the girl behind ‘ That ’s What She Said’, a blog and instagram account giving girls a say and encouraging them to speak out about their concerns, troubles and experiences growing up.

We were dying to chat to Izzy as this has the Sunday Girl approval through and through.

- When did you start TWSS and why did you feel girls needed it? (t.h.a.n.k.y.o.u!!!)

I properly started TWSS in about December last year, it all came out of my university work. I really really struggled as a young girl. From 13-20 I was angry, self destructive, tired, confused and ashamed, I was an emotional wreck I couldn't understand why. I wouldn't have identified as a feminist when I was a teenager because I thought it would make me 'unattractive' and 'annoying'. Seeing now that I didn't want to be part of a movement that would support and look after me because I thought it would make me 'unfuckable' shows how much of a problem we have. At university I started to explore how I felt as a young girl and realised that I covered up all the pain and confusion because I felt I was alone in it and that I was never encouraged to question it. I started to read up a lot on feminism and philosophy that questioned our capitalist society. My feelings began to make sense and I started to realise that society can condition girls to blame themselves for the way they feel, almost like it is our fault we feel so inadequate. We expect girls to feel shit, ugly, fat, emotional, take dangerous measures to change their appearance because ‘its just what girls do’. It isn’t what girls do, we are not born like this. It is what they have been taught to do. We are so strongly informed of our imperfections it becomes ingrained in who we are.

I don't feel that far away from the struggles I had as a young girl, so I feel I can still connect to these girls and have an insight into the way they are feeling. I feel they have a lot to say and that they are not being heard and society and the fashion industry are taking advantage of them. I felt that I could represent them. I wanted to give them a platform to speak out away from judgement and create something that really exposes what it is like to be a young girls NOW. I wanted to create something that can teach and open up young girls to what is really happening so they have the tools and knowledge to create change. That's What She Said was started because when I allowed myself to question my surroundings, it changed my life and I want to give all girls the opportunity to do the same.

- Why did you want to aim it at teen girls? (GO TEENS) Around 13-18 you are a young girl, you are experiencing life as a young girl, soon after that your experiences as a young girl are 'what it was like then'. Many pressures are directly linked to the internet which when I was 13 was nowhere near as assessable as it is today.

Things like porn, sexism and lad culture thrive on the Internet. Image sharing and manipulation has got to such a high that scrutiny of the female body is infiltrating these girls lives every time they pick up their phone. In addition, the unlimited amount of products and procedures available to 'improve' a women's body and the profits made off this has never been so high.

The increase of these things has grown so much since I was young let alone when my mum was. Stuff is very different and in many ways much worse and it is only these young girls that can teach us about it. Ironically it is these girls that have the least voice even though it is their experiences. I think there is a big disconnect between 'us' and 'them'. It is said that girls have apparently never had it so good and every decision they make is their 'choice' but choice isn't black and white it is hugely effected by our surroundings. If society and the media are conditioning young girls to, for example, to be sexualised then how can you blame them when they sexualise themselves. Are you surprised that Kylie Jenner has only just turned 18 and is one of the most sexualised 'woman' in the media when basically as soon as she opened her eyes she was told that you will make nothing of yourself if you're not sexy.

- Where do you want to take the platform from here? World domination?!

From here we just grow and grow. I want to join up with other charities and social enterprises to widen our audience and create more of an impact. I want it to grow on a international scale and be the one stop shop to finding out what it is like to be a young girl NOW, and how we can make positive change. I want it to be able to advise different industries on how to better reach young girls without manipulating and exploiting them. When you are just starting out the hardest thing is people believing in it and getting to a point you are not 'too small' to be recognised.

- TWSS has been doing so amazing, what's been the best accomplishment so far?

Setting up the website myself and getting such amazing feedback was a great moment but I think the success rate and sense of achievement is measured by the girls. The times when I have felt I really achieved something and seeing how far this could go is when girls message me or post on TWSS instagram posts about how much the blog means to them. When girls message me about things they are going through and how thankful they are I'm doing this I know that I need to keep fighting.

- Interview By Abigail Dennison

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Ida Lupino Lupino was a super badass woman in the film industry.

In the 1950s she was an actress and the first woman director and producer (EVER) to work in the studio system.

In front AND behind the camera, this woman was a total groundbreaking pioneer/babe and paved the way for women in Hollywood throughout the decades.

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Beate Sirota Gordon was pretty badass; at only 22 years old she almost single-handedly wrote women’s rights into the Constitution of modern Japan. Her work — drafting language that gave women a set of legal rights pertaining to marriage, divorce, property and inheritance that they had long been without in Japan’s feudal society — had an effect on their status that endures to this day.

This brave girl changed the world, remember her name.

Wow oh wow.

BADASS FEMALES IN FILMS

Suzy - Moonrise Kingdom So basically every frame in Moonrise Kingdom is pinterest/ instagram worthy. But not only is it a Wes Anderson palette of dreams, the characters and story line is pretty perfect too. The year is 1965, and the residents of New Penzance, an island off the coast of New England, inhabit a community that seems untouched by some of the bad things going on in the rest of the world. Twelve-year-olds Suzy and Sam have fallen in love and decide to run away. This coming-of-age is already a classic at only 4 year old and Suzy is the dream protagonist; she’s strong, intelligent, dresses oh so perfectly and has awesome views on the world. Her famous quote, “I prefer a girl hero” resonates with every female, doesn’t it?

M a r y - T h e Tr o u b l e w i t h A n g e l s The Trouble with Angels was directed by historical heroine, Ida Lupino, this was her first film to direct in over a decade; “Not only did [Ida] Lupino take control of production, direction and screenplay, but each of her movies addresses the brutal repercussions of sexuality, independence and dependence,” Carrie Rickey once wrote of the pioneering woman, Ida Lupino. The coming-of-age tale, set at an all-girls Catholic school, explores the struggles and hopes of young women in a world without men. St Trinian’s X a billion and some smoking in the girls bathroom.

The Girl Gang - Mustang After an innocent frolic in a neighborhood swimming pool with some boys from their school, five Turkish sisters on the cusp of womanhood are locked away in a “wife factory,” stripped of “skimpy” clothes, cell phones and computers, and schooled in cooking and housekeeping. Poignant and disturbing, writer and director Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s thoughtful rumination on global society’s deeply entrenched fear of women’s sexuality will break your heart.

Malala - He Named Me Malala Terrorist target, tireless advocate for girls’ education globally and not to mention Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Malala Yousafzai, is an inspiration to girls all over the world and is still only a teenager who loves to tease her little brother and crushes on Roger Ferderer. Director Davis Guggenheim offers an awe-inspiring glimpse into the ordinary life of an extraordinary young girl seemingly destined to change the world. A true heroine.

Illustration by Lorna McIntyre @lorna_illustrates

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