Hannah Nathanson

6 days ago | elle.com | Hannah Nathanson

What does hope look like in 2025? Here, continuing our 40th anniversary celebrations and our promise to spotlight the women who will define the next four decades, ELLE shines a light on campaigners and trailblazers. Each one of these women prove that resisting the status quo takes many forms, big and small, but all of them are pushing for social change and show us that there's always the chance to hope.

1 week ago | elle.com | Hannah Nathanson

My back was the first thing I noticed. I may have just been to the salon to cut off five inches of hair into a long bob, but it was the skin on my back that was getting my attention in the mirror. It felt so bare, so bobbly, in that wintery, vitamin D-deficient way. But it also felt overwhelmingly good. Outside, the first hint of summer had arrived (Ice coffee! Pedicured toes! Gingham!) and my back was ready for it.

4 weeks ago | elle.com | Hannah Nathanson

Lisa Nandy is doing a quiz. It’s not just any quiz, it’s part of designer Yaku Stapleton’s AW25 presentation at London Fashion Week, during which he invited guests, including the secretary of state, to explore an imagined island and determine which ‘biome’ they belonged to. Nandy is speeding through the soul-searching questions; she is quick to answer and even quicker to giggle at herself. We get to the third question:WHAT ROLE DO YOU TAKE IN A GROUP?

2 months ago | elle.com | Hannah Nathanson

Tori TsuiActivist & AuthorTori Tsui (pictured above) is rolling up the leg of her grey-marl tracksuit. She wants to show me the stick-and-poke tattoo she got to mark her love of cold-water swimming; there, etched on her right thigh, is the figure of a woman floating on her back, arms splayed.

2 months ago | elle.com | Hannah Nathanson

The author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is back this week with the publication of her new novel Dream Count. Ten years in the making, its release is every book fan’s dream. A touching, beautifully told story about four women whose lives interconnect and who influence each other in the ways of love and desire, it’s an exploration of what true love means in today’s world. And the book itself was a work of passion.