I had just managed to get a seat on the crowded underground train when my iPhone vibrated in my palm. A single notification dropped onto my screen – I’d been sent 120 pictures via AirDrop.

Another name, another vigil, another news cycle, another tragedy of gender-based violence. In the last year alone the UK has seen the stories of Zara Aleena..

Zara Aleena walked everywhere. She packed her party shoes in her handbag, put her trainers on, and walked.

How can men help dismantle misogyny? What are tangible things men can do to end male violence? What does true allyship look like?

Khadijah had only been dating the man for a few weeks. The 30-year-old beautician from North Carolina, USA, had not noticed anything unusual about the situation..

The only home Nicolas Burns knew for the first 13 months of his life was a series of Premier Inn hotel rooms around Bristol.

Amy Jayne Morby didn’t want to be sent home from the Royal Cornwall Hospital. She was suffering and had told staff she wanted to die.

England was two months into the first 2020 lockdown and Georgie Matthews was alone in her bedroom in Norwich. The 28-year-old had just received a private message via her professional Facebook page from an anonymous sender.

Women across the UK are boycotting nightclubs this week for a so-called "Girls Night In" to highlight the issue of drink spiking - and many say they know change is needed through personal experience.

“You have total permission to have an erection”. We are less than 60 seconds into Sex, Love & Goop, and we’re watching couple Damon and Erika attempting to uncover their individual ‘sexual blueprints’. Gwyneth Paltrow’s voiceover describes them as “extraordinarily brave volunteers”, which feels like a gross understatement.

Every woman has heard the one about the ponytail. If you wear your hair tied up, rather than hanging down, it apparently makes you easier to grab from behind. So, best to think about that when you’re getting dressed.

Perhaps it is testament to a long lockdown spent in a concrete jungle, but there was something about the tranquility and isolation of the lakeside home that was totally enchanting. That was until an unwanted visitor turned up.

As we leave return to pubs, clubs, and the streets, experts do not see the situation improving - instead it will bring together new ways of harassing women with historic ones, writes Sophie Gallagher

The first time Lily O’Farrell went viral, she couldn’t refresh her Instagram fast enough. With every second her follower count was going up by at least a hundred people.

As cervical screening attendance rates hit at a 20-year-low, Sophie Gallagher asks – is the ‘Jade Goody effect’ a distant memory?

Ending a pregnancy in England has always required at least one visit to a clinic but the pandemic changed all that with the government approving at-home abortions. Now it’s considering changing it back

Juno actor Elliot Page has spoken openly about his top surgery, sharing an image on Instagram. Now Sophie Gallagher speaks to 28-year-old Dylan about his experience, gender euphoria and why access to treatment can be so crucial

Young and with no underlying health conditions, Amy Durant thought she was low risk for Covid-19. Now Sophie Gallagher speaks to her 12 months after she first became ill

It started in lockdown one. My limbs flailed, seemingly detached from the will of my brain, as I knocked over cereal boxes and dropped cutlery at random. This new clumsiness made the simplest of tasks difficult.

In November 2019, Stuart attended a routine scan at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) following heart bypass surgery seven months earlier. During the scan doctors discovered a tumour on his spleen.