Rachael Healy

London

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Senior Writer and Digital Content Editor at RCN Bulletin

Journalist/lapsed mackem | Freelance features/reviews/investigations. Mostly on culture, mostly in @guardian @theipaper | British Journalism Awards winner 2023

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Articles

MP, rape victim, teenage mum . . . and first Mother’s Day as a grandparent

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Rachael Healy

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MP, rape victim, teenage mum . . . and first Mother’s Day as a grandparent

3 weeks 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.
What Are Femcels & Why Are They Just As Dangerous As Incels?

4 weeks 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.
Dulcé Sloan review - former Daily Show correspondent’s dispatches from family life

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Rachael Healy

Dulcé Sloan, a seven-year veteran of The Daily Show, feared that that pedigree would leave her with an audience of “three white people who listen to NPR” for her first appearance at Soho theatre. The US comic needn’t have worried: the room is full and she opens with local material for the London crowd. Why do we add an “s” to “math”? Why are Black people living here – “you knew it was cold”?
Why we all love a good gossip, from The White Lotus, to books and podcasts

1 month ago | msn.com | Rachael Healy

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‘Everybody does it’: Why we all love a good gossip, from The White Lotus, to books and podcasts

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Rachael Healy

In the latest series of The White Lotus, childhood best friends Laurie, Kate and Jaclyn arrive at a luxury Thai hotel for a girls’ holiday. The trio appears to have a perfect dynamic, but on the first night, two friends descend into a gossiping session about the third, crystallising unspoken tensions in the group. Gossip drives all kinds of dramas – it’s the central force behind every series of Bridgerton, the beating heart of teen drama Gossip Girl.
shocking report reveals dangers of jobs in the arts

1 month ago | msn.com | Rachael Healy

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‘One slip and I’d be lost in the flood’: the shocking truth about the dangers of jobs in the arts

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Rachael Healy

‘Every time I think about starting a new job,” says Lucy, a documentary maker, “I feel triggered. Because every job I’ve done in the last five years, bar maybe two, I’ve had some kind of absolutely horrendous experience. I now expect to be put in danger at work.”Lucy (not her real name) is by no means an isolated case.
Ella Lily Hyland, breakout star of Black Doves, on her wise-cracking assassin

1 month ago | msn.com | Rachael Healy

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Ella Lily Hyland, breakout star of Black Doves, on her wise-cracking assassin

1 month ago | msn.com | Rachael Healy

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