BIRTH OF A CHILD AND MATERNITY are gradually ceasing to be perceived as an obligatory item of the "female program" and the most important marker of the woman's viability. The social installation is replaced by a personal, informed choice - and now it is possible to have a child, thanks to the achievements of medicine, at almost any age and circumstances.

I studied and trained in Europe. When the residence permit in the European Union ended, she went to travel to Latin America - she visited Peru, Bolivia, Brazil. In the last six months, I worked as a business English teacher, and also volunteered at a non-governmental organization that made free lessons for children in English, drawing and programming, as well as counseling for women in difficult situations.

My name is Kate Hook, I am 21 years old and I have no left hand. Self-irony is perhaps the most effective cure for complexes, so my pseudonym is Hook. Most often, with my relatives, I joke that I am “armless” - this helps me not to complex with the prosthesis. Until now, no one knows why I was born this way: doctors shrug their shoulders, the Internet does not give a clear answer.

In 2014, I graduated from the magistracy of the Moscow State University under the Moscow State University and immediately after that entered the postgraduate program there. Before that I went to study abroad several times. First, at the American University of Beirut for two months: then for the first time I realized that I could compete with graduates of foreign institutions.

Formally, there are no refugees in Russia, experts say, referring to the insignificant figures of official statistics - during the Syrian conflict, for example, Russia recognized only one citizen of this country as a refugee, another thousand received temporary asylum. Of all the categories of refugees, the natives of Ukraine can rely on the hospitality of Russia, and many citizens of foreign countries were in limbo: for some time they worked in Russia, but because of the hostilities could not return to their homeland, as a result the documents were overdue and they were forced to seek asylum.

We recently published an interview with famous dads raising twins. But the topic is inexhaustible, but I also wanted to know what to do if you have a double or a triplet, and resources are limited. Anastasia Aksyanova has three children of one and a half years, and all the worries about them fall solely on the shoulders of the parents. For those who read her witty Facebook blog, life with a triple is sometimes surprisingly easy.

Designer Nastya Klimova works at the junction of traditional craft and modern art, creating jewelry and accessories from metal chains, sometimes weightless, sometimes almost monumental. Over the past few seasons, her OMUT brand has seriously advanced: from the small metropolitan workshop of Klimova’s work they hit the Parisian showrooms and the shelves of Opening Ceremony store.

Almost four months ago I read about the action of the creators of Everyday Sexism - #wheniwas and suddenly realized that I wanted and was ready to tell what happened to me. A month has passed, but I had only a couple of paragraphs. In late May, the world was shocked by the news of the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl from a favela in Rio de Janeiro: there was her boyfriend among the rapists, they were armed, videotaped and later posted on the Internet.

When a person begins to notice the symptoms of mental disorder, they often do not believe him - they try to write off his state of health as fatigue or laziness. Especially often this happens with adolescents - it is believed that teenagers are in principle emotionally unstable, so their problems should not be paid attention to.

There is a popular question at the interviews about who you see yourself in five years. My experience suggests that we never see ourselves as those who we become in five years. Or become them in parallel with how we become also someone else. Five years ago, I worked as an editor and could not even imagine that you could write “for girls” or “about girls” on the site without frowning with shame.

About a month ago, I wrote to my twitter that every year I’ve become less and less like a conventional adult. This was said as a joke, but he who was not used to stipulating the word "conventional" would certainly have agreed with this. I almost do not paint, I wear a backpack, overalls and a hat, but often I do not wear a bra.

Applications and dating sites have long been a part of our life - we use them almost as often as messengers and social networks. Right before our eyes, they are changing the mechanisms of communication and the way we meet people. We asked Natalya Arefyeva, who had been dating Tinder for a year, had a meeting with 22 men, and told her why she had a more difficult relationship online than it seems at first glance.

IN THE END OF AUGUST IN RUSSIAN SPORT A LARGE SCANDAL DISAPPEARED. Several snowboarders, on condition of anonymity, told the Sport-Express publication that the Russian Snowboard Federation (FSR) is in conflict with leading athletes who have not paid their salaries for months and cannot provide adequate conditions for training.

В XXI веке уже неприлично говорить , что женщина "сабмиссивна от природы", хотя с точки зрения морали и этики БДСМ, как и многие ролевые игры и новые сексуальные практики, остается в серой зоне, а сочетаемость феминистских взглядов с БДСМ у многих вызывает вопросы. We already went to the femdom master class, talked about a conscious approach to BDSM and practices that are suitable for beginners, and now talked with Wei Vesper, a professional dominatrix and a feminist who blogs about her instagram adventures and YouTube channel.

We know a lot about the problems of Europe and the United States, while African countries remain in the shadows - local activists consider this a big problem. In the mid-nineties in Rwanda and Burundi at least 800 thousand people became victims of mass killings. One indigenous population killed another: the Hutus were destroyed by the Tutsis and the latter, of course, put up armed resistance.

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a topic about which the average person knows little. Diarrhea, abdominal pain, fatigue, which manifest these diseases, are often not taken seriously, and many people are embarrassed to consult a doctor with intestinal disorders. However, these symptoms may be manifestations of IBD, including ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease.

In March, TNT hosted the premiere of the “Bachelor” show, under the terms of which ten girls compete for the attention of a famous man. Participants go there for different reasons - sex-educator Helena Rydkina also said that she wants to raise the problems of sexism and inequality, on which the concept of the project is based.

The American and European model market is strictly regulated, so young models — as a rule, they are thirteen or fourteen years old — are first sent by the parent agencies in Russia to study and work in Asia. This is a common practice that exists since the 90s. But the case of the death of the 14-year-old Russian model Vlada Dziuba in Shanghai almost for the first time raised the question of how ethical and safe these business trips are.

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that primarily affects the joints and is more common in women. If arthritis begins in childhood, it is called juvenile; the disease can proceed in different ways, and its causes are not yet known. Both rheumatoid arthritis itself and drugs for its treatment lead to noticeable changes in appearance and physical limitations.

Increasingly, the focus is on the history of models that are fighting for the right to gain weight; there were even relevant communities and organizations. However, the models are still criticized, and sometimes persecuted for being frank: "She herself chose this profession, this is her job." It is believed that the model - "the winner in the genetic lottery" - simply does not have the right to recover.