The Future Doesn’t Look so Bright – 16 White People Is Not a Celebration of Diversity By Nikita Aashi Chadha Bright Futures UK released a new campaign earlier this week, ironically named Donate2Educate, which included 16 influencers who live with chronic or long-term illnesses. My friend Neha had shared it to her IG story, reposting Continue Reading
By Nikita Aashi Chadha I can’t say that the report on racial disparity in the UK (or supposed lack of) surprised me at all. I know there are waves of people, mainly white, and from the majority, that have been shocked by the government’s behaviour recently. We’ve just experienced the murder of Sarah Everard and Continue Reading
Understanding that diversity is the only way to ensure that spaces which are generally not safe, can actually be safe for people of colour
The Double-Edged Sword of Pain VS Pleasure What Having Sex is Like with Endometriosis and Adenomyosis by Nikita Aashi Chadha Photo by Dainis Graveris on SexualAlpha” I’ve always been sexual as a person. Sex has been a big part of my life, and even my personality for as long as I can remember. My Continue Reading
There Is Nothing Superficial About Endometriosis Nikita Aashi Chadha I have stage one Endometriosis. When I first saw the photos that were taken during surgery, I was genuinely shocked to see what it looked like. Small, red lesions on my insides. It looked like acne. I wondered how something so small, so minimal, could have Continue Reading
Written by Kaz Molloy On 23rd Dec 2009 I was diagnosed with womb cancer. The diagnosis came out of the blue as I was being seen by a gynaecologist for fibroids and an MRI scan to determine the size of them had picked up the cancer. I had never heard of “endometrial carcinoma” and actually Continue Reading
Stop Gaslighting Women of Colour and the Organisations that Support Us If we have told you that your organisation and the space you take up isn’t inclusive – hold yourselves responsible for that, and not us Nikita Aashi Chadha If you’ve read any of my other pieces, you’ll know that I’m someone who has a Continue Reading
Not everyone is stock piling! As a sufferer of Endometriosis and PCOS, I am sick of people stockpiling. Living with a chronic condition with extremely heavy bleeding, I need access to menstrual products. We’ve seen throughout the years how there is a drive around period poverty, and with products costings from £1.00 to £5.00 you Continue Reading
IT’S HERE! September is Gynae Cancer Awareness Month, and for the second year running the Eve Appeal are asking you to Go Red!⠀Cysters are proud to be supporting this campaign, as only through collective support, sisterhood and community can we truly beat Cancer.⠀All across the world women are going red for all of the wrong Continue Reading
Is my vagina normal? In short yes. But we are angry. Angry at the rise of social media trends, that deem woman have to look a certain way, particularly with regards to their vulva. Labiaplasty, is the most common form of female genital cosmetic surgery, involves the lips of the vagina being shortened or reshaped. Continue Reading
