Rachael Healy

3 days ago | theguardian.com | Rachael Healy

Social media is a place for sharing, but as we lead more of our lives online, when does the urge to connect become destructive? The question permeates writer and performer Eleanor Hill’s show, a tour through personal crises, mediated by the compulsion to broadcast it all online. Hill livestreamed her very real breakdown on Instagram in 2020, when she was struggling to access mental health support during the Covid pandemic.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Rachael Healy

A fixture on London’s Dean Street for 25 years, Soho theatre has hatched plays that won Oliviers, shows that earned the Edinburgh comedy award and ideas that became TV hits. On any night, across its upstairs studio theatre, its main house and basement cabaret bar, you’ll find plays from new writers, experimentations in clowning, drag performance, standup comedy, or a hybrid of them all. The Guardian’s journalism is independent.

1 month ago | msn.com | Rachael Healy

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1 month ago | theguardian.com | Rachael Healy

Today marks Natalie Fleet’s first Mother’s Day as a grandmother – or nana, as she says. The Labour MP for Bolsover will spend the day in her constituency, surrounded by her children, her daughter’s newborn baby, her husband, mother and sister. Fleet is only 40 years old. Her eldest daughter, now 24, was conceived when Fleet was a teenager after she was groomed by a much older man. “To have a child conceived at 15 felt as bad as it could get.

1 month ago | marieclaire.com.au | Rachael Healy

The manosphere, the misogynist internet world populated by influencers such as Andrew Tate, is widely recognised as a toxic space where young men are at risk of radicalisation. Now, say researchers, women and girls are being sucked into potentially dangerous online spaces of their own: the femosphere. It is a term used by Dr Jilly Kay, an expert in feminist media and cultural studies at England’s Loughborough University, in a paper published last year.