I have been the Opinions and Personal Essays editor at gal-dem, since joining in September 2020. These are some of my favourite commissions:
We need to talk about the anti-racism genre
Missy’s journey on Big Mouth encapsulates the complexity of Blackness
The enemy isn’t Lizzo, it’s toxic diet culture
Middle Eastern looks are ‘trending’, but where does that leave Middle Eastern women?
How supermarkets became the bloodiest new battleground in the UK’s culture war
Discovering my mother through her obituary
Kamala Harris’ appointment is historic but don’t ignore her problematic past
Food is and always will be political
Since the local lockdowns, England’s north-south divide has never felt deeper
I worked at The Tab from 2017-2019, where I commissioned articles to writers and edited them. These are some of my favourites:
Features
These people broke into Glastonbury last minute and their stories are wild
Sad anniversaries are a thing and this is how people celebrate them
Dough balls and endless vouchers: What it’s like working at Pizza Express
Everything you’ll remember if you spent your teens on Tumblr
These are the 16 tragic things all British girls did during sleepovers in the 2000s
I asked my dating app matches when they last cried to find an emotionally available man
These people got back together with their exes and it actually worked out
How to deal with new relationship anxiety, because it can be scary af
First person
One in five women suffer from PCOS, so why has no one ever heard of it?
Forget Netflix, this is what being a Tall Girl is really like
The reality of being a Jewish student at uni
Opinion
The James Charles scandal was built on homophobia and we just let it happen
I went to a private school and I don’t think they should exist
The real love story in Fleabag isn’t about the priest, but the two sisters
I’m sorry to tell you this but Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging is completely messed up
