Harpy Mag chats to Justine McNichol, founder of Love the North - an organisation committed to raising money for small Northern businesses during the pandemic.
10 Things to Help You Feel Better (In Lockdown)
The coping mechanisms many of us have for when our mood is low, feel out of date. Life in lockdown is really hard – and a decline in mental health feels inevitable. To try and counteract that we have written some tips to help you through!
Growth in Lockdown
Those places I would rather go and the things I would rather see are closed off, they have been muted and put away, and the quiet, understated satisfaction enclosed within a brown plastic pot is suddenly all that’s left. The potential in a seed, and the satisfaction of its growth is more absorbing than I thought – it is really beautiful.
He Said Yes! How gender stereotyping in marriage proposals is still a thing
Recently, I asked my boyfriend to marry me. Confusion, surprise and pity were fairly common reactions to the news, but the most bizarre response was from a drunk man on a night out.
Harpy Interviews: Rosie Hilton
Harpy chats to Rosie Hilton about her creative process, the impact of gender identity on her work and the power of poetry as both personal exploration and instigator of social change.
Today Jewellery : Simple & Sustainable
Meet Séarlait – the creative clever-clogs behind Today, a sustainable jewellery brand characterised by beautifully simple design and a determination to reduce waste.
The Harpy
It’s our one year anniversary! To celebrate, we wrote a little piece about why we decided to choose a female monster as inspiration for our magazine…
10 Things to Help You Feel Better
Everyone has those days where everything feels rubbish. Getting out of bed is hard, getting out of your pyjamas is hard and so is just about everything else that could possibly be labelled as productive – from talking to other humans, right down to basic bodily hygiene (it’s gross, but we’ve all been there). To help on those grey days, Harpy has made a little list to get you through.
Freedom4Girls: Ending Period Poverty
Most of us have experienced that unease and paranoia; when a tampon falls out of our bag in public. Worst of all, most of us know how horrifying it is to realise that you have leaked. But, most of us probably don’t know what it’s like to not be able to afford basic menstrual protection.
Women's Equality Party: Harpy meets Dr Louise Jennings
I spoke to Dr Louise Jennings, WEP candidate for Headingley and Hyde Park in the May 2018 local elections. We discussed broadly her personal and political reflections on the role and importance of the Women’s Equality Party and feminism more generally.
Women in Fairy Tales: 'Snow White' and the Insidious Power of Gender Stereotypes
Fairy tales depict the fantastical lives of princes and princesses, witches and ogres, giants and dragons. They have endured because of their magical power to take us away from the mundanity of everyday life and capture our imaginations. But are they really so far removed from reality? Are they not actually reflections of our own societal prejudices, but with a pop-up castle and elaborate costumes added in?
TIME'S UP at the Golden Globes
It's been five days since I first saw Oprah’s acceptance speech of the Cecil B. de Mille award at the Golden Globes, and I have watched it in a euphoric daze at least six times. It really is fist-pump worthy, prompting righteous anger, searing pride and indomitable hope (and I admit, even a squeak of 'You Go Girl!')
Lyra Belacqua: A Fictional Feminist
The recent publication of Philip Pullman’s ‘The Book of Dust’ brought with it, for me, a wave of nostalgia. Although Lyra Belacqua, the fictional heroine of my youth, features only as a baby, the novel still centres on her. I bought the book and read it within three days, desperate to re-engage with the alluring world of witches, daemons and armoured bears that so captivated me as a child.