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Thirty going on Thirteen: How Drinking Culture Made Me Rediscover My Younger Self

Guest AuthorMay 7, 2025

As an only child, I learned to entertain myself. I’d fashion clothes for our pet cats out of various materials, spend hours picking flowers - many of which wer... Read more...

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Happily Ever After, Solo

Lazy JulieMarch 25, 2025

‘So, you’ve got a rendez-vous!’ my friends grinned at me. ‘Oh no, I didn’t mean ‘rendez-vous’ as in a ‘date.’ I meant it as an ‘appointment,’ I clarified. D... Read more...

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Is ‘bitch’ empowering or problematic?

Guest AuthorFebruary 10, 2025

When Bitch Became My Label Dumb bitch. Those were the two words he used. It wasn’t about his ability to speak out against me, as I had just stepped in hi... Read more...

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Our Obsession with Expiration: Ageing as a Woman

Guest AuthorNovember 19, 2024

In my home country, getting old feels like a dark pit you can’t avoid. A retirement somewhere beautiful feels like a joke.... Read more...

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Stop Asking Me Why I Send my Daughter to Daycare

Lazy SelinOctober 22, 2024

Sick and tired of being asked why I send my daughter to daycare, this is my request to all the women out there - stop the judgement.... Read more...

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Why Do We Send Nudes? The Science Behind it and Personal Stories from Hungary

Guest AuthorMay 31, 2024

Am I a pervert? Asks herself the author of this piece, reflecting on the often stigmatised perception of sending nudes as women. ... Read more...

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More than four years have passed, and my grief hasn’t magically disappeared. In an attempt to put my finger on its contradictions, I wrote down some of the inconsistencies and feelings of this new kind of grief I’m going through.... Read more...

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Reframing Beauty: The Power of Embracing Laziness

Guest AuthorOctober 10, 2023

In a world that constantly bombards us with unattainable beauty ideals, can embracing lazy beauty set us free? ... Read more...

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How motherhood changed my idea of productivity

Lazy SelinAugust 27, 2023

So for the sake of our mental health, let’s change what productivity means when it comes to motherhood and embrace laziness, argues Selin in this persuasive personal piece. ... Read more...

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Pretty hurts: Navigating beauty standards in Thailand

Guest AuthorJune 18, 2023

Eating disorders are common in many Asian countries. With extreme thinness and pale skin as the beauty standard, Thailand is no exception. ... Read more...

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The German law forced me to think about it. I did it anyway.

Guest AuthorJune 1, 2023

The current regulations in Germany make it very clear that women who decide against bearing a child without any “obvious” reason should feel the social and legal disapproval with every step they take.... Read more...

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Content Call: Body and Time

Guest AuthorMarch 15, 2023

Have you ever felt guilt or embarrassment towards your changing body? This spring, Lazy Women will be focusing on the theme of Body and Time. ... Read more...

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4 Fun and Feminist Ways to Use Dating Apps

Guest AuthorNovember 6, 2022

Anyone who’s used dating apps knows it can get pretty exhausting. Lazy Maïté has taken it upon herself to think outside the box, and has come up with some fun, alternative ways to use dating apps other than, well, dating. ... Read more...

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Green Flags: Learning How to be in a Healthy Relationship

Lazy DorinaOctober 20, 2022

Dorina expands on her journey which led her from a toxic partner to an ideal lover and explains ‘why she didn’t leave earlier’. ... Read more...

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Married, child-free and happy: why having children isn’t the “next step”

Lazy LucieSeptember 13, 2022

Lucie, a.k.a. “The Bride to Be”, discusses what it feels like to be getting married but deciding to remain child-free, despite societal pressures and expectations. ... Read more...

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A letter to those who are healing from abusive relationships

Guest AuthorJuly 12, 2022

How does one heal from an abusive relationship? And will the anger that they leave ever go away? Lazy Dagmar explores. ... Read more...

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Opinion: The lazier I am in bed, the more sexually active I become

Lazy SaraJuly 8, 2022

The idea of women not being sexually active, being too sexually active, or not performing a certain way in bed, often renders them unattractive in our problematic culture of sex.... Read more...

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An Open Letter to All Lazy Men

Guest AuthorMarch 30, 2022

"This is a letter to all lazy men. A plea to men who continuously use women." Lazy Dagmar makes women heard who have been mistreated by men. ... Read more...

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When Your Body is the Property of a Whole Country: Testimony of a Turkish Woman

Lazy AyseMarch 3, 2022

Ayse Göc recounts her own personal experiences, growing up in Turkey. She shows how small things, like shaming young girls about the effects their transforming teenage bodies have on men, can lead to a culture where women murdered by their own relatives is a fact of life.... Read more...

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Dear Romance Scammers: What Is Wrong With You?

Lazy TamaraSeptember 30, 2021

In the era when online dating is an inevitable option for singles and platforms such as Tinder actually set now-married couples up, it is increasingly easy to believe that true love is just another swipe away. And it might be. But it’s not always prince charming that we meet. ... Read more...

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When is it time to go? Signs that you’re ready to leave a relationship

Lazy ZsofiJune 21, 2021

In today’s article, Zsofi Borsi asks the grand questions: do you really need to “wait it out”, until a relationship becomes “objectively” bad? What could be the early symptoms of the fact that you’re thinking of leaving? ... Read more...

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Is self-love the ‘new sexy’? Rethinking confidence culture

Lazy IzziJune 14, 2021

‘Women are placed in a catch-22: if we seek external validation, we are unappealing, but society has been constructed on the basis that we can only be validated by men.', argues Izzi Williams. ... Read more...

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Is this a Compliment? A video essay

Guest AuthorMay 3, 2021

A video essay based on messages I received online - from men whom I have never met. There is an invisible stress factor in most women's lives - one that we ... Read more...

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Being Emotional: the ultimate lazy sin?

Lazy IzziApril 9, 2021

I recently finished the last episode of Russell T. Davies’ acclaimed drama, It’s A Sin. I had expected to learn a lot from the show, especially given I was par... Read more...

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Being seen as the “sexually repressed Asian” in the West

Guest AuthorApril 1, 2021

Yaska explores the intersections of sexual liberation and hypersexualisation and discusses the racism she experienced in the Netherlands.... Read more...

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Notes from a Tomboy: how I reclaimed my femininity

Guest AuthorMarch 15, 2021

Anti-femininity is a phenomenon that poisons the life of girls and women worldwide. Anna, a self-proclaimed tomboy, shares her childhood memories about her first encounters with patriarchy and anti-femininity. ... Read more...

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We Should be Napping: the power and privilege of “self-care”

Guest AuthorFebruary 25, 2021

Napping is one of the most powerful acts of self-care there is. And women shouldn't be ashamed to take a nap however often they like.... Read more...

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Valentine’s Day Special: The Challenging Love Collection

Guest AuthorFebruary 14, 2021

The 'Challenging Love' collection is a set of poems and short testimonies reinterpreting and challenging the expectations of modern love.... Read more...

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Opinion: The Pressure to be a ‘Good Feminist’

Guest AuthorFebruary 12, 2021

You shave your legs, suffer over a guy or a girl sometimes, ask for help instead of trying to power through something alone? You wear bras and makeup and you expect the guy to pay the bill on the first date? Have you ever felt that this makes you a bad feminist? In the following personal, yet very relatable piece, Elena Giuliano tells you why you really shouldn’t! ... Read more...

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Real love, baby: the contradictory pressures of modern love

Lazy ZsofiFebruary 5, 2021

Fed by the image of romantic obsession, but encouraged to co-exist in stable, lasting units - so it goes the contradiction of modern love, argues Zsofi Borsi in this explorative piece. ... Read more...

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Back to the Present: a Lazy Woman’s experience with PTSD

Guest AuthorJanuary 29, 2021

Anna opens up about her experiences with PTSD, the only available form of time travel, and highlights why PTSD impacts women, both in and out of the military, too. , too.... Read more...

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What’s the Rush? The pressure to succeed young

Lazy NapsuJanuary 11, 2021

Has your career been put on hold due to the pandemic? Lazy Napsu explores the anxieties of the millennial generation in the wake of 2021.... Read more...

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Remembering the Old and planning for the New

Lazy GrétiDecember 31, 2020

Preparing for the New Year, Greti Csernik looked back at 2020 and she found new perspectives through remembering little things.... Read more...

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Talking to a Grieving Friend: the dos and don’ts

Lazy ZsofiDecember 21, 2020

But saying the “right thing” to a grieving person can be hard – to make it less scary, Zsofi shares her personal list of dos and don'ts.... Read more...

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Relinquishing Control: The Unspoken Pains of Quitting the Pill

Guest AuthorNovember 26, 2020

What happens to our bodies when we come off the contraceptive pill, and why is there so little information to help women through the process? Emily Stronach Walker discusses the physical and psychological side-effects of quitting the Pill, and how her own experience left her feeling isolated and frustrated by the contradictory, minimal guidance she found. ... Read more...

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ADHD: Why I can never be the perfect woman

Guest AuthorNovember 13, 2020

How have gender stereotypes shaped our understanding of ADHD and their role in preventing women’s access to diagnosis and recognition?... Read more...

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Friendship Sinking: How Lockdown Affects My Friendships

Guest AuthorNovember 2, 2020

How has lockdown affected our friendships? Jules Reich explains why she hopes to spend more time on her phone during the pandemic.... Read more...

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So we are out of the closet, but into what? – National Coming Out Day

Guest AuthorOctober 11, 2020

To celebrate National Coming Out Day, we asked our readers to submit their short pieces, poems, and illustrations inspired by their coming out story. ... Read more...

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Society Is Killing Your Sex Drive… How To Get It Back

Guest AuthorOctober 6, 2020

The patriarchy is, once again, ruining your life. And this time: it’s your sex life. Looking at advertising, social media, even each other, Becky unpacks why we feel the need to preen our nakedness – and why we need to work to let it go.... Read more...

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Single, but Not That Keen to Mingle

Lazy GabySeptember 28, 2020

In a world that's obsessed with couples, being single takes courage. Gaby Ravet shares what she learned from being single for a year and introduces us to her Seven Self-Empowering Commandments. ... Read more...

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