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The Nibbies: is there real change in the diversity of the UK publishing industry?
Last night, the publishing world and all of its bookish friends donned their finery and knocked back a cocktail or two for the British...
Leah Quinn
Jun 30, 20203 min read
Parable of the Sower - predicting the shambles of the 2020s
Considering I write a book blog, it’s been way too long since I wrote a review. But we’re back! In honour and memory of the late Octavia...
Leah Quinn
Jun 28, 20203 min read
I am angry - #BlackLivesMatter
I am angry. Everything I say in this article has a receipt at the bottom. Please ask me where I got the information. Please fact check...
Leah Quinn
Jun 1, 20205 min read
The MaddAddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood
(REPOST FROM WITHINHERWORDS.CO.UK) What is it? Margaret Atwood’s The MaddAddam Trilogy consists of Oryx and Crake published in 2003, The...
Leah Quinn
Apr 21, 20202 min read
Dolly Alderton's Everything I Know About Love
I laughed a lot. I felt warmed, encouraged, comforted, understood. Like wearing a good pair of slippers or drinking far too many gins.
Leah Quinn
Apr 21, 20202 min read
The Testaments - you really want to love it...
(REPOST FROM WITHINHERWORDS.CO.UK) The Testaments is the long-awaited sequel to Margaret Atwood’s infamous 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s...
Leah Quinn
Apr 15, 20203 min read
Big up the muff – the world’s first Vagina Museum
How good was your sex education at school? Do you know your vaginas from your vulvas? Did you know people used to use Coke as a...
Leah Quinn
Jan 19, 20202 min read
The Edible Woman – when you just can’t stomach your life.
Since moving to London a couple months ago, I’ve discovered long Tube journeys make for brilliant reading time. When you’re busy and...
Leah Quinn
Nov 11, 20192 min read
Sex Cells - a stark lesson in empathy
“It’s mental when you think about it – some women died trying to have kids and some died trying to get rid of them.” Most people don’t...
Leah Quinn
Oct 26, 20194 min read
Industrialised bodies: a review of Antony Gormley at the RA
The Antony Gormley exhibition at the Royal Academy of the Arts has received some bad press since it opened on the 21st September 2019....
Leah Quinn
Oct 11, 20193 min read
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Creative anxiety and those pesky vampires in Plan Z Theatre's [title of show]
I'll be the first to admit that ordinarily musicals aren't my thing. I used to think of them as cute and childish - the kind of theatre...
Leah Quinn
Aug 19, 20193 min read
Man Number Five and the darker underbelly of sex positivity.
Cw: rape; #MeToo; reference to drugs; reference to suicide “It took me a while to realise that ultimately what I thought was empowering...
Leah Quinn
Aug 13, 20195 min read
Battling with the feminine body –Sturgis and Lamont in The Land of Her
One of the great things about being a reviewer – particularly at Fringe - is getting to see shows you would never normally get to see....
Leah Quinn
Aug 9, 20193 min read
Bursting onto the comedic scene: ‘The Hoe-ly Trinity’ and why we need strong female comics
“Ultimately, we are women being funny and somehow that makes us feminist.” Sitting in the smoking area of The Star Inn in Guildford...
Leah Quinn
Jul 15, 20193 min read
Waking up the left: Utopia for Realists is calling us out
I’m getting more and more into non-fiction lately which is weird for someone who significantly prefers fantasy over reality. And you know...
Leah Quinn
Jun 18, 20195 min read
Life after recovery and the stranger in the mirror
It’s been five years since I stopped eating. It’s been four years since I started eating again. Mental health is discussed more and more...
Leah Quinn
May 27, 20194 min read
The Unexpected Joy of Being Single and the Incompleteness Myth
The Sunday Times Bestselling Author of The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober I’m taking a break from dissertation-writing to stumble back...
Leah Quinn
Apr 22, 20197 min read
Options
Stay together Cute flat Easy Would it be? Ignore the different opinions The fact my womb isn’t mine And women don’t have careers (what...
Leah Quinn
Jan 2, 20191 min read
Inspiration and the intellect in Feminists Don’t Wear Pink and other lies
Curated by Sunday Times journalist and Pink Protest activist Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don’t Wear Pink and other lies has shot to social...
Leah Quinn
Dec 26, 20183 min read
Big thanks to Offshoot Arts Magazine
Having submitted a few poems way back in September to the lovely people running the new student arts magazine at my university, I've had...
Leah Quinn
Dec 11, 20181 min read
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