by Girl Gone International | Mar 24, 2021 | Live, March 2021
Your period isn’t supposed to be excruciating — there’s actually nothing normal about being in debilitating pain on a monthly basis. For a long time I was led to believe that missing school during my period was normal. That this was the price of womanhood. My mother...
by Christina McDade | Jan 29, 2021 | Connect
A connection is “a relationship in which a person or thing is linked or associated with something else.” At the start of the pandemic, the world connected through the shared practice of sheltering in place and keeping your distance. That if we must leave our homes or...
by Katalin Bencze | Jan 11, 2021 | February 2021, Live
For as long as I can remember, I was always in the kitchen with my mom, cooking and baking. Partly because it was a chore but mainly because I wanted to learn how to prepare a delicious meal. From the age of 10 I started collecting healthy recipes. I grew up in the...
by Girl Gone International | Oct 18, 2020 | Live
The beginning of an adventure It is World Menopause Day —18 October 2020 — which has given me ‘pause’ to reflect back to November 2014. I’d arrived in Mexico aged 49 years, with my partner and our son, who was five at the time. Prior to this the UK was my...