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A newsletter for women who are done being the default and men who are done being part of the problem: covering the mental load, unpaid labour, money conversations and how to prepare our daughters for the patriarchy.

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Women are paying a fortune to avoid the wrong man

What women pay each year to be protected from strangers, and what the violence figures actually say.

Everything he says will sound like love

A field guide to the language of coercive control, for those certain they would spot it.

A man stole three children, and people cheered

The state told their mother she was not a victim of a crime.

Smile for the nice man

My daughter did what she was trained to do. So did I.

The Tate brothers were arrested again

A guilty verdict will not deliver the full reckoning people wish for.

Every male self-improvement guide skips the same line

A whole industry has built a check-list for female desire out of jawlines and income.

I put a number on my unpaid labour

And I created a tool so you can too

It's all in your head. Weird, because the diagnosis was in your bones.

A story about a bone scan, a shrug from a doctor, and decades of medicine built for a body that isn't yours.

The case for investing before you feel ready

Why the pause costs more than you think – and what to do about it.

The good girl problem

A working list for raising girls who don't shrink to be liked.