This week, we’re thrilled to speak with author Nicola Dinan about her debut novel, Bellies.
It follows the relationship between young graduates Tom and Ming and how their connection fluctuates in the wake of Ming’s transition, and is being adapted for TV by the studio behind the Normal People adaptation.
We chat with Nicola about the expectation that transgender characters should be overly virtuous, and how marginalised characters should have “the freedom to be pieces of s*** too.”
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Introducing Love Lives
Author Louise O’Neill on redefining boundaries in a post-Me Too world
Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan on gender identity and how to untangle a toxic political debate
Adult filmmaker Vex Ashley on feminist porn, sex work and the female gaze
Celebrity psychic Chris Riley shares what a reading could do for your relationship
Soma Sara on how sex education perpetuates rape culture and harmful myths about sex
Comedian Jack Barry on threesomes, lockdown sex, and why monogamy is outdated
Beam Me Up Softboi’s Iona David examines the different types of softbois on dating apps
Love Island’s Amber Gill discusses finding holiday romance, the pressures of coming out, and life after the villa
Rebecca Humphries on emotional abuse, toxic love and her night out with a disappearing softboi
Dr Hazel Wallace busts myths around the clitoris, female masturbation, and the ‘orgasm gap’
Love Island’s Yewande Biala discusses ‘racialised renaming’ and dating as a Black woman
Writer Salma El-Wardany discusses the importence of female friendship
Intimacy coordinator Ita O’Brien on how to choreograph the perfect sex scene
Roxie Nafousi on manifesting the relationship you deserve
Carrie Hope Fletcher on loneliness, fantasy, and leaving long-term relationships
Lalalaletmeexplain on abusive relationships and toxic femininity
Sophia Smith Galer on sex myths, virginity and virility
Laura Bates on how misogyny is damaging our relationships
Raven Smith on masculinity, fake orgasms, and #MeToo
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