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We Need To Talk About The Bridgerton Rape Scene Once again, Shonda Rimes has pulled through with another fantastic TV show. Following in the footsteps of Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, and How To Get Away With Murder, Bridgerton was as captivating and as much of a hit as her previous successful shows. In fact, Bridgerton has been named as Netflix's biggest drama as of date, with a whopping 82 million households around the country tuning in to binge the series within only 28 days. And it's no surprise! With a gorgeous cast, a humorous take on regency social etiquette, compelling characters, and stunning costumes and scenery, it makes sense why the series has captured the hearts of so many people. In case you haven't watched the show, Bridgerton's main storyline follows a wealthy woman named Daphne who has come of age and has entered society (aka, she's on the hunt for a man.) At the same time, notorious rake (19th century slang for fuckboy) the Duke of Hastings has ret...

Unlearning My Own Internalised Misogyny - A Journey I would be lying if I said that I always considered myself a feminist, and always cared about the advancement of women - no matter who they are. My feminism came to me around the age of 14 or 15, when I stumbled across the concept through tumblr of all places. Yes, my parents had taught me growing up that I could do anything I wanted to as a girl. But the word 'feminist' and it's meaning wasn't introduced to me until my early teens. As a teenager, I'd like to say that I was always particularly 'woke'. Most definitely, the term 'wokeness' has been co-opted to mean entirely different things than what it once used to. Something which I considered when seeing what Chidera Eggerue - more commonly known as the Slumflower - posted on her Instagram story. She speaks about how white people have the privilege of going in and out of wokeness like a trend, whereas People of Colour do not have this privilege. If...