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Menopause (2025)

Lip Service # 1

This issue was interested in personal experiences with menopause be it premature or delayed or perfectly timely. Contributors were invited to tell us about treatments, symptoms and about the discourse around them; we wanted to hear about the joys and the horrors of menopause – from peri to post and whatever it looks like for YOU.

  • Zoe Williams
    Lily Clayton
    Barbara Patino
    Marie Morice
    Jess Moriarty
    Vanessa Marr
    Polly Barker

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Lip Service # 2

Menstruation (2025)

This issue was interested in the topic of menstruation. For this issue, there was no limit to how or what form such engagement should take. We were interested in personal experiences with menstruation, whatever that might look like for someone. Whether you conceive of menstruation as something sacred or mundane, painful or joyful, fraught or simple – we wanted to hear about it. How does menstruation appear in fiction? What does paleoanthropology have to say about it? How does it relate to notions of femininity, of taboo and stigma? We wanted to hear it all

  • Zoe Williams
    Rachel Judge
    Samantha Streibl
    Theeba Krishnamoorthy
    Jo Dodd
    Minna Ford
    Anja Summermatter
    Polly Barker

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Lip Service # 3

Reproductive Justice (2025)

This issue was interested in Reproductive justice. Reproductive justice is a broad term. For us, it encompasses three core tenets: the right to have children, the right not to have children, and the right to raise children in safety. From access to abortion to the ability to see ones children, into adulthood – safe from state violence and neglect. We were interested in everything from personal experiences to academic reflections and professional insights.

Whether you’ve experienced reproductive injustice first hand or campaign for changes in the law – we wanted to hear about it. How is reproductive justice reproduced, or indeed undermined, in fiction? What does sociology have to say about it? How does it intersect with decoloniality or disability justice? We were interested in it all.

  • Kandre Hassan
    Safia Shaikh
    Soraya Saber
    Tireni Adeniji
    Skaped
    Katja Holtz
    Zoe Williams
    Marie Morice
    Helen Lynn
    Emily Jones
    Ki Hng
    Polly Barker

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