Women dressing up as men dressing up as women are embracing camp glamour to playfully subvert gender and femininity. Miss Malice, Holestar and Victoria Sin explain why they are revamping queer cultureThe inspiration for Miss Malice’s drag act, she says, is “lesbian pulp novel covers, 60s B-movie heroines and mid-century working-class femmes”. One of her most popular performances is her take on Drew Barrymore’s character in the 90s teen horror movie Scream. “She dies in the first 10 minutes of the film, but I created a revision that imagines her living and revenging herself against her harasser,” she explains. In Read More

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“Dreams don’t have to manifest as you imagined. They just have to set you on a path because there is always a way.”
– Kyle Maynard
Kyle Maynard (@kylemaynard) is a motivational speaker, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and ESPY award-winning mixed martial arts athlete, known for becoming the first quadruple amputee to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Aconcagua without the aid of prosthetics.
Oprah Winfrey called Kyle “one of the most inspiring young men you will ever hear about.” Arnold Schwarzenegger described him as “the real deal,” “a champion human,” and “one of the most inspiring people” he’s ever met. Read More

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I’m a single mum living with my mother, and it’s destroying our relationship. Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerI am struggling with my relationship with my mother. I am a single mum and, because of a complicated set of circumstances, live with her and my son, who is at primary school. He is intelligent but temperamental. His behaviour at school is exemplary; at home he can be extremely difficult.Therein lies the problem. My mum refuses to participate in anything I set up to try to deal with my son’s behaviour, and my response to it. She simply says she doesn’t think Read More

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My pilgrimage to meet the people who helped me when my dog lost a leg I am sitting under a rough wood shelter, in the midst of a Virginia thunderstorm, surrounded by three-legged dogs, watching the lightning flash ever closer. Frankie, the coonhound, starts howling. Adelaide, the husky, joins in. “It’s fine,” says Jim Nelson, co-founder and president of the Tripawds Foundation. “If anything, it’s going to hit that transformer over there.” He waves vaguely behind me. At his feet, his dog Wyatt Ray (three legs, face covered by a fabric calming cap to distract him from the storm) seems Read More

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Her self-esteem is at rock bottom and when at home she mostly stays in her room. Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerI am desperately worried about my teenage granddaughter, who is in a very miserable state. Her self-esteem is at rock bottom, she has no confidence and apparently no hope.She is a sweet girl who has always been rather shy and quiet but seemed happy. At her primary school, she got good reports, fitted in and had friends. However, she struggled with concentration, particularly regarding written work. This continued into the first two years of secondary education, where she showed ability Read More

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