Roisín Dervish-O'Kane

1 week ago | cosmopolitan.com | Roisín Dervish-O'Kane

Of all the sentences I’ve imbibed so far this year, a few have really stuck with me. One such was delivered by Jess Phillips, a Labour Party member of the UK Parliament, back in February: “Never, ever be grateful for the bare minimum.”She was addressing a conference by gender equality charity The Fawcett Society, discussing the insurgent right and how feminism needs to be ambitious in its goals and not accept breadcrumbs of progress.

1 week ago | cosmopolitan.com | Roisín Dervish-O'Kane

Of all the sentences I’ve imbibed so far this year, a few have really hung around. One such was delivered by Labour MP Jess Phillips, back in February: “Never, ever be grateful for the bare minimum.”She was addressing a conference by gender equality charity The Fawcett Society, discussing the insurgent right and how feminism needs to be ambitious in its goals and not accept breadcrumbs of progress. I wrote it down in my notepad, but I needn’t have done so — it instantly resonated.

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Roisín Dervish-O'Kane

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2 weeks ago | cosmopolitan.com | Roisín Dervish-O'Kane

When you think about abortion rights, maybe you tend to think about the US rather than the UK. (At least since the successful decriminalisation of abortion in the north of Ireland in 2019.) State-wide abortion bans. The overturning of Roe v Wade. Stuff that’s unsettling, sure, but far away. But ours is a globalised world. With cultural and political winds blowing eastward from the US.

2 weeks ago | harpersbazaar.com | Roisín Dervish-O'Kane

女性の生殖権に大きく関わる、非常に重要なニュースがイギリス政府から発表された。 今回イングランドで初めて、緊急避妊薬（アフターピル）が薬局で無料で入手できるようになったのだ。改正案は年内に実施される予定で、これにより、住んでいる地域によってアフターピルの受け取り可否が決まるという不公平さは解消されることとなる。 「安全で効果的な避妊は女性の医療に今後も必要不可欠です。これは平等な社会の基本ともいえます」とスティーブン・キノック保健相。 イングランドでは現在、区が資金を提供して無料で処方薬が受け取れる地域もあるが、それ以外のエリアでは30ポンド（約5800円）ほどを支払わなければ、アフターピルを受け取ることができない。特に、前夜の相手と折半できない場合や、低収入の女性にとっては安くない金額だった。 Halfpoint Images...