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Serena Smith

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Columnist at Prospect Magazine

Deputy Editor at Dazed Magazine

Deputy Editor at Dazed Media

deputy editor @dazed [email protected] / [email protected]

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Articles

  • The Dazed guide to being a decent tourist

    3 days ago | dazeddigital.com | Serena Smith

    Three things are certain in life: death, taxes, and Brits descending on Europe every summer like a plague of locusts. Despondent with our lot on this sad, grey little island, swathes of us cling onto the prospect of mainlining fluorescent cocktails and gobbling Lays on a sun lounger in Spain/Greece/Portugal/Croatia just to get through our working lives.

  • Innovative weight loss program for obese patients that need a kidney transplant

    4 days ago | medicalxpress.com | Serena Smith |Lisa Lock |Andrew Zinin

    Infection, delayed kidney function, kidney loss and death are all risks associated with kidney transplant surgery in obese patients. They're also some of the reasons why end-stage kidney disease patients with a BMI greater than 40 often struggle to be listed for transplant.

  • The government’s ban on ‘choking porn’ is nothing but a publicity stunt

    1 week ago | dazeddigital.com | Serena Smith

    I was probably 14 when I first became aware of choking as a sex act. It was probably on Tumblr, where, before its 2018 blanket ban on pornographic content, black-and-white GIFs of men strangling naked women and images of bruised necks circulated alongside the site’s standard fare of ‘aesthetic’ photos of iced coffees and American Apparel tennis skirts.

  • Are you a Type A or Type B friend?

    1 week ago | dazeddigital.com | Serena Smith

    26-year-old Sophie says she’s “always” been the planner in her friendship groups. “I’m definitely a Type A friend,” she says, explaining that she grew up surrounded by “proactive” people. “My family have always been planners – we love a day out – and my closest friends from high school were as Type A, if not more Type A, than me.” But her university friends had a different attitude. “It was a shock to the system,” she says.

  • What Eternal Sunshine can still teach us about heartbreak

    1 week ago | dazeddigital.com | Serena Smith

    10 Images It’s been over 20 years since Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind firsthit the silver screen. The poignant sci-fi-cum-romance stars Jim Carrey as Joel, a melancholic introvert, and Kate Winslet as Clementine, his antithetically enigmatic, spunky girlfriend. The film takes us through Joel’s memories of the ill-fated relationship as he attempts to erase Clementine from his brain – a service offered by the fictional firm Lacuna, Inc.

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22 May 25

Spoke to three US students who are hunger striking for Palestine: https://t.co/fnnLzKRnDQ

Serena Smith
Serena Smith @serenathesmith
20 May 25

wrote about why everyone seems to want an exceptionally tall man nowadays https://t.co/ddGMUfoqcD

Serena Smith
Serena Smith @serenathesmith
14 May 25

if anyone is still on here: quick note to say that I'm out of budget and not commissioning for the next few weeks! please save all your amazing pitches for June!!!