Things get ugly, really quickly in the internet.

When we created The Feminist Shop, our main focus was to celebrate what we have in common rather than focus on our differences. And we stand by it. We can't insult each other on the name of feminism, we owe better to a movement that is about fairness.

What is privilege? Do I have it? Can I even give it up? We explore more what privilege is and how accepting it, and being responsible about it is something essential to move forward.

I think it is fair to ask ourselves how we expect girls to not fall into that trap when we constantly praise them for their physical appearance. How can we expect them to believe us when we say that "what really matters is what's on the inside" when they are bombarded by unrealistic beauty expectations and surrounded by adults talking about dieting, calories and sizes?

It is undeniable that there is a huge awakening in regards to racism, and hell yes for that. There still needs to be so much more but what's happening at the minute is definitely something powerful and overdue.

If there is something that we have all learnt during these last days, it's the importance of working on understanding our privilege, of shutting up and listening, doing the work. We have been reading, donating, signing petitions and following new people to get ourselves more educated. I am not saying this to specify that we are the good ones but to clarify that we thought we were the good ones, we thought we were doing ok, nice and respectful, and advocating for diversity and it has taken something like this to make us realise that there is so so much work to do and we are just not doing enough.

I am a deep believer in normalising things associated with stigma - by doing so we take away the solitude that makes everything worse.

I have an eating disorder, I have taken medication to regulate anxiety, I had a miscarriage and I don't always love being a mother. From the 4 of them, all true, the one I am most ashamed to recognise publicly is the last one.

I was extremely lucky. Despite having all the ingredients to have postnatal depression (or even baby blues) with a birth completely different to my plan, previous episodes of poor mental health and the fact of being far from my own culture and language, I didn't suffer from any of it. Not the same luck for one-fifth of the mothers.

Today is International Museum Day, and as I get in front of the computer to write this post my head starts going at 100 mph. What a fascinating topic to speak about! So many things that need to be addressed!

My favourite one lately is ArtActivismBarbie, a twitter account and initiative started by Sarah Williamson, a feminist, activist and qualitative researcher at the University of Huddersfield, who is on a mission to highlight in the way museums are dealing with women. From the lack of women painters (21 pieces against 2300 in the National Galleries) to the way women are represented to please men - constantly sexually objectified - and with a mandatory focus on the way women are described as daughter, wife, daughter in the descriptions. There is nothing Barbie can't address with her modus operandi "small signs, big questions and a fabulous wardrobe". Treat yourself by reading this article and following her for thought (and smile) provoking posts!

Today is International Nurses Day, and what a year to celebrate them eh?

I have been thinking about Nurses a lot since the release of Banksy's new mural. It clicked on so many levels that I couldn't shut up about it, so following Chris' advice "why instead of keeping telling me about it don't you write about it?" here I am.

I was looking forward to writing this article. I was looking forward to being honest, transparent and talking without any taboos about women's pleasure. Then I remembered that my father in law reads my newsletters and blogs and sometimes even leaves a nice message in the family Whatsapp group (Hi Malachy!). So, putting that thought aside as much as possible, I am going to be truthful with myself and write with complete freedom. Ready?

I have heard so many things about OMGyes, mostly positive. Anything that Emma Watson recommends with such passion is feminist approved for me, but I didn't know much more.

This topic is genuinely fascinating. There are a vast array of opinions about the concept of 'women and children first'. There are distinctly different ways to analyse it and use it for one side of the argument or the other. This definitely makes it worthy of its own blog post.

In case somebody is out of context, "Women and children first" was the protocol used in the Titanic when deciding who got to use the limited number of lifeboats; it was following the actions of the British troopship HMS Birkenhead during their own catastrophe in 1852 and it was a rule strictly imposed by the captain and the crew during the Titanic disaster in 1912.

I am writing from London, still buzzing from the event in The House of Lords yesterday. Being surrounded by a group of women always has that effect on me.

I hope one day I'll get an award for just being an entrepreneur, without gender specification, but in the meantime, I celebrate enormously these ones because I support the spaces and visibility that are deliberately given to women in an effort to shine light on a problem. These awards are the result of a problem, they respond to a bad reality, but they are very much needed.