“Stay afraid, but do it anyway” / ex-The Pool / words: VICE, Sunday Times Magazine, Vogue, Bitch Media, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan
The Vagina Dialogue: How The Vulva Became 2019's Hottest Topic
Vaginas, it would seem, are in fashion. They're "trending". But why now, and where’s the dialogue headed?
How to cope when you are widowed at 36 years old
Kat Lister’s husband, Pat Long, died seven months ago after battling a brain tumour. Here, she writes heartbreakingly about her grief as a young widow
'Dirty Dancing’s' Abortion Plot Is Depressingly Relevant In 2017
30 years later, we catch up with the woman who wrote it, Eleanor Bergstein.
It is 52 days since my husband passed away. I am homesick for him
In August, Kat Lister’s husband, Pat Long, died in his hospice bed. Here, she begins to untangle the grief that has ensued
Robin Green: the only girl at Rolling Stone in the 1970s
She was the first woman on the masthead of Rolling Stone in the magazine’s heyday. Kat Lister gets the lowdown on sexism, success and celebrities from Robin Green
Behind the flower crowns and huipil blouses, there were many Frida Kahlos
The new V&A exhibition presents us with multiple Fridas, each one as complex and enigmatic as the next, says Kat Lister
Periods aren’t simply a rite of passage – they’re a dangerous threat
Yet, as a new book lays bare, the silence around menstruation and its effects on girls around the world is deafening. Kat Lister reports
There’s a danger of forgetting what nursing is – the capacity to love strangers
A new nursing memoir makes an impassioned appeal for a return to kindness. Kat Lister speaks to its author, Christie Watson
“I left everything behind: my family, my friends, my childhood”
Kat Lister talks to Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini about her perilous journey from Syria to Europe, her new memoir, Butterfly – and what it really means to be a refugee
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe could face more time in jail – and she needs us to be outraged
The British-Iranian citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been told she could be charged with further ‘undisclosed’ crimes. Kat Lister talks to her husband, Richard
Sadiq Khan: “Men must join women and girls in the fight for equality”
Kat Lister sat down with London mayor Sadiq Khan to discuss #MeToo, the gender pay gap – and why he’s proud to be a feminist
Richard Ratcliffe: “Nazanin’s imprisonment in Iran amounts to torture”
It’s a new year. And Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband is still asking when his wife and daughter will return home
Revisiting my miscarriage, 1 year on
High above the bustling city of Osaka, hidden deep within Mount Kōya – Japan’s holiest mountain – women quietly come and go with the temple chimes. Weaving through the towering cedar trees, they come to grieve for their unborn children
Tarantino’s defence of Roman Polanski is just as revolting, 15 years on
Perhaps this resurfaced footage tells us how pivotal the #MeToo moment is, says Kat Lister
Does Melania Trump actually want to be saved?
Everyone loves a mystery to solve, says Kat Lister. America’s first lady is, arguably, the strangest enigma of all