the 1988 club
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Celebrating Women
recommendations
Here's some wonderful women's work for you to enjoy!
books
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Wolf
The Will To Change (Men, Masculinity and Love) - Bell Hooks
Women Don't Owe You Pretty - Florence Given
Women, Race & Class - Angela Y.Davis
We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
Bad Feminist: Essays - Roxane Gay
The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan
Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde
films and tv
Fleabag
Killing Eve
Call Jane
Barbie (obvs)
Mrs. America
The Color Purple
Little Women
music
The Doll People- SOFIA ISELLA
The Fade Out Line- Phoebe Killdeer, The Short Straws
Salad- Blondshell
Stuck In The Middle- Greentea Peng
Little Sunflower- Dorothy Ashby
Anything- Adrianne Lenker
Criminal- Fiona Apple
Sexy Villain- Remi Wolf
Sexy to Someone- Clairo
Flying Away (album)- Smoke City
Persimmon- The Army, The Navy
Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed)- The Raveonettes
I'll Call U Back- Erykah Badu
Uncatena- Sylvan Esso
Impossible- Lyla Foy
Preacher's Daughter (album)- Ethel Cain
labour- Paris Paloma
Violence- Iona Luke :0
Binz- solange
Pink Youth- Yuna & Little Simz
No headstone on my grave- Esther Phillips
Jerkin'- Amyl and The Sniffers
Love song- lime garden
FUN- Biig Piig
Night Terror- Laura Marling
Ponyboy- SOPHIE
Violent Times- St Vincent
Olha Eu Aqui Oh! Oh! Oh!- Evinha
Land- Patti Smithcredits: 1-18 Zoe Brzakalik + Grace Mayhead, 19-30 Iona Luke
artwork
Rhythm 0 - Marina Abramović
Centerfold - Cindy Sherman
Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You. (exhibition) - Barbara Kruger
Nature Study (exhibition) - Louise Bourgeois
Self Portrait - Jenny Saville
I followed you to the end (exhibition) - Tracey Emin
All new recommendations are welcome!
women's health
STIs
According to the World Health Organisation, more than 1 million curable STIs are acquired every day. These can cause pregnancy complications, infertility, Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and increase the risk of certain types of cancer. ALWAYS keep yourself safe; make decisions that feel right and comfortable for you and use protection where possible. If you think you might have an STI, ICash in Cambridge is our local STI testing centre and we should be keeping a stock of testing kits in the JCR too. Below is a link to further information on common STI symptoms on the NHS website. If you're concerned or need more advice on maintaining your sexual or reproductive health see your GP.
period tips
• hygienewear comfy, breathable clothing; everyone's too busy thinking about their own outfit to care about your pyjamas
use unscented sanitary products or even reusable pads or a diva cup (which we're hoping to try to fund in college!)
change your tampon regularly DON'T RISK YOUR HEALTH• diet and exercisereduce caffeine, avoid salt, but treat yourself a bit obvs
DRINK SOME WATER
I've heard turmeric can help???
a bit of exercise can help with pain but it doesn't have to be intense especially if you're tired... five laps (walking) around Benson court?... or come to netball :)• plan aheadalways have a spare pair of ugly knickers and some sanitary products (squished at the bottom of your bag, shoved in coat pockets, under your mattress, in the communal fridge, etc)
use a tracker app• sleepif you suffer from bad periods you WILL be more tired than usual, allow yourself to rest, and you can cram at the end of term• for paintry ibuprofen and paracetamol, both are anti-inflammatory and even if they do nothing sometimes you can gaslight yourself into thinking they do
get a heating pad or hot water bottle or even better one of those heatable teddies full of beans or something— they have a cute face and usually are lavender scented so it's 10x better
take a HOT shower
do some bed yoga i.e. a shoulder stand of sorts (tried and tested by me- not doing a risk assessment on this)
talk to a doctor, they can suggest medication or birth control that might help and can make sure that nothing's out of the ordinary!
go to fitzbillies
breast cancer
A breast lump or mass can be a possible sign of breast cancer but so can changes to the skin around the breast. This includes dimpling, swelling, colour changes and nipple discharge.
Below is a helpful and thorough page by Natural Cycles that I'd encourage you to read!
harassment and violence
Below are some resources ranging from college-wide support to national helplines. Feel free to ask for support in navigating any of these services from college or from myself as women's officer.Head of Wellbeing: [email protected]
Harassment Officer
The Chaplain: [email protected]
Your Tutor
• National domestic abuse helpline: 24-hour 0808 2000 247
• Samaritans - Befriending helpline for those in crisis - www.samaritans.org: 116 123
• SHOUT TEXT 'SHOUT' TO 85258 Shout: the UK's free, confidential and 24/7 mental health text service for crisis support | Shout 85258 (giveusashout.org)
• Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre helpline number- 01223 245888. It is open: Wednesday evenings 7pm-9:30pm and Sundays 10am-12:30pm
• Rape Crisis England and Wales helpline number- 0808 802 9999. It is open every day 24/7. They also have a web chat service that you can access.REMEBER
In a mental health crisis, you can dial 111 and select option 2 to access the local NHS First Response Service for mental health crises.
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