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Rebecca Myers spends her days as an English Literature student at the University of Warwick, struggling with library fines, Modernity and the effect existentialism is likely to have on her day, all while trying to find time for a decent cup of tea. Among other ventures, she is the whirring cogs behind blog Mind On The Hop, and has interviewed Carol Ann Duffy. She specialises in social commentary, and can be easily located under the nearest large pile of books.

Blog Entries by Rebecca Myers

I'm a Feminist and I Support Warwick Women's Rowing Naked Calendar

(3) Comments | Posted 21 December 2012 | (11:03)

The University of Warwick Women's Rowing Club has released a naked calendar for the first time this year, in order to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Research, and specifically their research into cervical cancer. A matching (if ever-so-slightly rival) publication to the annual Men's naked calendar, which has been going...

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You Go Girl! - Obama Win Is a Relief for Women, Including Us Brits

(5) Comments | Posted 8 November 2012 | (20:08)

The morning of the US election verdict: things were still looking uncertain. And, if the fact that the world's most powerful nation seemed so indecisive, and the most powerful man in the world was about to gain his power by a sliver of states and an army of lawyers, was...

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Sexing Up the Classics: Why I Wouldn't Mind 50 Shades of Mr Darcy

(0) Comments | Posted 18 July 2012 | (21:42)

A few too many drinks later and Elizabeth found herself face to face under the stairwell with Darcy himself. Clearly they had both thought this would be a good place to recover their spinning heads. She glanced nervously at him; he saw her eyes scan him quickly, hidden under the...

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Now We're Being Told Rape Victims Just Can't Take The Banter?

(7) Comments | Posted 25 May 2012 | (21:39)

There have always been a few nail-biters who've had to wear plasters on their fingers for a week after Lad culture's gone a bit too far. Ever since it seeped into the minds of young people across the UK, it has become one of the English language's most assertive declarations:...

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Brickgate Has Totally Missed the Point

(0) Comments | Posted 4 April 2012 | (23:35)

I would like to offer my congratulations to Ms Samantha Brick. To write an article that achieves the kind of earth-shattering, record-busting, never-seen-before success hers has takes quite something.

In the USA it probably takes a celebrity scandal, or a tear-off burger voucher at the bottom. In France, throw...

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Is Feminism for the Middle Classes?

(3) Comments | Posted 31 March 2012 | (11:19)

She puts the Sunday Times down on the coffee table and reaches for a biscotti. Her chocolate Labrador lolls around the conservatory, eagerly pursued by her two year old son Oscar, who is clad head-to-toe in Pumpkin Patch. As she pops the latté-dunked biscuit into her mouth she thinks: "I...

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Joseph Kony - Star of the Latest Must See

(0) Comments | Posted 8 March 2012 | (12:54)

Have you heard about the latest must-see? Everyone is talking about it. In all seriousness, I have rarely - if ever - heard such unanimous, passionate praise for a film.

STOP KONY 2012 is a campaign from the Invisible Children charity to bring to justice - and, ultimately, arrest -...

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Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Has 'Secret' Contraceptive Implant - Let's Talk Underage Sex

(70) Comments | Posted 16 February 2012 | (04:08)

News has broken that a 13-year-old girl has had an implant inserted at her school in Southampton without parental consent, and the country has been plunged into yet another taboo-fraught half-conversation about the morals of underage sex.

It has taken the British press a long time to reach the realisation...

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Prejudiced, and Proud: Why We Should Be Literary Snobs

(0) Comments | Posted 10 February 2012 | (16:57)

You are on the train. You are probably in the quiet zone by accident, having completely failed to read the signs and only noticing when you felt a million commuting, demonic eyes boring holes into your iPhone. Ah, the minefield of social politics that is the British public transport system....

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