Emma reflects on how classical literature portrays women’s friendships – and how it could be better.
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Our blog amplifies the voices of young women in and from Scotland.
We share articles on issues that impact and are important to young women and girls. Contributors have written on a range of topics, including climate justice, LGBTQ+ issues, and community-building.
Emma reflects on how classical literature portrays women’s friendships – and how it could be better.
In this article, Stella dismantles the concept of Galentine’s Day and puts it back together again.
Mel reflects on how she found friends through a climbing community for women and non-binary people.
This Galentine’s Day, Bethany reflects on campaigning as community building.
If you were a young woman on the internet in early 2025, chances are you’ve heard of the “Pink Pilates Princess”.
Muminah Koleoso shares her experiences representing The Young Women’s Movement in Hungary and Brussels last summer.
Co-producing resources to improve young women’s healthcare
Chloe, one of this year’s 30 Under 30, discusses how she organised in Orkney to support women experiencing sexual violence. She offers advice for how others can tackle sexual violence in rural areas.
While this budget contains some positive steps forward for young women and girls across the UK, it also reveals concerning gaps and missed opportunities. Our Research & Policy Lead Mar talks us through it.
We’re told that porn is just fantasy, harmless, private, even empowering. But the truth is more complicated. Mainstream online porn has become one of the biggest influences on sex in our generation, shaping how people think about desire, power, and consent. And what it’s teaching isn’t healthy.
Feminist wellbeing practices to tend to yourself and the collective.
2016 marked a pivotal year in the introduction of facial filters. Look at any selfie from this period, particularly from a certain few Kardashian sisters, and you’ll more than likely see Snapchat’s renowned dog filter. Somehow, we all collectively bypassed the obscenity that was dog ears, nose, and tongue in every selfie that we took because the dog filter blurred our skin and made our eyes ever so slightly larger. It was our first taste of filter enhancements, and we have only gotten hungrier.
Since the start of the year I’ve been working with The Young Women’s Movement on their ‘Young Women Lead – AI’ project. Together we have been learning about AI from The Scottish AI Alliance and deepening our understanding on the risks AI could pose for young women and girls.
In this article, Alba & Annie (participants of Young Women Lead AI) discuss the programme and the creation of their Guide to AI.
Mirin reflects on organising the first Menstrual Health Day at her school in the West of Scotland to raise awareness of periods and the different ways young people experience them.
Lauren looks at the 2025 Netflix series Adolescence from a feminist perspective, and discusses whether it could be used as teaching tool.