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Small Revolutions, Every Day: Feminist Life Advice for Very Hard Times
I’ve taken the decision to rename this Substack - to Small Revolutions, Every Day - to better reflect my intentions for it.
May 19, 2025
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I'm 46 and I've realised that I really, truly love my body
These are the psychological shifts that have made it possible
Mar 9
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Is meditating good for running? Is running a form of meditation?
Does a regular meditation practice bring demonstrable physiological and psychological benefits to runners? What aspects of meditation feed into running…
Mar 6
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Most Popular
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Why aren't more men talking about this?
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Telling boys and men that they're disadvantaged only hinders them further - and, anyway, it's not true
Mar 11, 2025
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Men are very angry about the disappearance of male-only spaces - and they're taking it out on women
Feb 9
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Family estrangement: why do the loudest voices belong to people who have *been* cut off?
Dec 15, 2025
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Women's Mistake is Assuming that Men Think Like Us
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The Psychopathology of Cancellation
Nov 17, 2025
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I'm 46 and I've realised that I really, truly love my body
These are the psychological shifts that have made it possible
Mar 9
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Rachel Hewitt
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In the 1980s, it was a given that progressive sports centres offered free childcare. But by 1996, free crêches had disappeared. What…
PLUS: 40 years of compelling evidence for single-sex sport for women and girls
Mar 4
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What we can learn from Norway in encouraging lifelong participation in exercise among women and girls
For decades, researchers have observed that girls' activity levels plummet in teenagehood. This is a crisis. What can we learn from Norway, where…
Feb 27
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Living the High Life: the Rise and Fall of the First Female Winter Sports Stars
2026's Winter Olympics attained near-gender-parity and is being portrayed as the peak of a 'long climb to allow women to compete in male-only' sport…
Feb 24
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Sex Snoopers and Spy Cops: Why does the state invest such disproportionate energy in invading women's private lives?
How the state's attitude to domestic privacy differs for men and women; a sexist rule change in 'Britain's most brutal' race; and a feminist writing…
Feb 16
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When The Worst Happens
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When the Worst Happens #3: The Land of 'What Ifs'
Grief doesn't begin at the point of death. The grieving mind is fixated with the period preceding the death, incessantly searching, in retrospect, for…
Feb 27
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When the Worst Happens #2: Is There a Timeline for Grieving?
When my husband died, I was desperate to find someone who could tell me how long it would take before I felt 'normal' again. But is there such as thing…
Feb 11
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When The Worst Happens #1: What Is Complicated Grief?
Straightforward grief is something that happens *to you* - in that there’s still a semblance of a *you* for it to happen to - but complicated grief…
Feb 6
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When the Worst Happens: A Guide to Complicated Grief
Imagine that the worst happens, and somebody close to you dies, perhaps unexpectedly or violently. You're dropped onto an island of pure horror. What do…
Jan 29
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Family estrangement: why do the loudest voices belong to people who have *been* cut off?
And why do people who initiate estrangements remain relatively quiet?
Dec 15, 2025
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Rachel Hewitt
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Sustaining Physical Activity
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I'm 46 and I've realised that I really, truly love my body
These are the psychological shifts that have made it possible
Mar 9
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Rachel Hewitt
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Is meditating good for running? Is running a form of meditation?
Does a regular meditation practice bring demonstrable physiological and psychological benefits to runners? What aspects of meditation feed into running…
Mar 6
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Rachel Hewitt
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In the 1980s, it was a given that progressive sports centres offered free childcare. But by 1996, free crêches had disappeared. What…
PLUS: 40 years of compelling evidence for single-sex sport for women and girls
Mar 4
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Rachel Hewitt
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What we can learn from Norway in encouraging lifelong participation in exercise among women and girls
For decades, researchers have observed that girls' activity levels plummet in teenagehood. This is a crisis. What can we learn from Norway, where…
Feb 27
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Rachel Hewitt
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Should you exercise when you're unwell?
If you exercise with a cold, are you at risk of sudden death, or of making your cold worse or last longer? If you rest up on the sofa, will you lose…
Feb 13
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Making Things
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New Writing Workshops and Retreats for 2026!
My programme of writing retreats and workshops for 2026 has now been finalised, and is ready to book online! Here's a taster of what's on offer - with…
Jan 19
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"NO PLATFORM": something's rotten in the state of non-fiction publishing
In the past, non-fiction writers built platforms by researching and writing books. Now, writers are expected to *already* possess substantial online…
Jan 6
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The library is finished
No, this isn’t a grandiose pronouncement on the contemporary state of declining literacy, but rather a short post to show off the finished library in my…
Dec 1, 2025
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How to set up a 'tip jar' in Substack
A quick and easy way to allow your readers to tip you, using your existing Substack and Stripe accounts
Nov 27, 2025
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How I turned Ikea Billy bookcases into a gorgeous built-in library
I haven’t done a DIY post in a while, mainly because I haven’t done any DIY in a while, but I’ve spent this last week building myself a library out of…
Sep 29, 2025
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No Women Allowed
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Living the High Life: the Rise and Fall of the First Female Winter Sports Stars
2026's Winter Olympics attained near-gender-parity and is being portrayed as the peak of a 'long climb to allow women to compete in male-only' sport…
Feb 24
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Sport has always been a touchstone for women's liberation. No wonder men try to put a stop to it.
A runner was pulled from the Spine Race because Taliban sympathisers threatened to assassinate her during the event. This is part of a global and…
Jan 21
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What do running, DIY, trauma and feminism have to do with one another?
Or, in other words, what links all my Substack posts?
May 13, 2025
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No Women Allowed...in Gardens
Don't come into the garden, Maud!
Apr 18, 2025
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No Women Allowed...to Eat Pizza
How patriarchal societies control women's consumption
Mar 6, 2025
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