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Philippa Willitts

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(She/Her)
Sheffield
As seen in: Global Comment, The Daily Dot, The Star (Sheffield), The Big Issue, Inside Housing, The F-Word, Now then Magazine
Covers:  Feminism, tech (software, not hardware, focus on digital marketing), disability, LGBT, UK politics. gender-based violence, VAWG, Sheffield, politics, LGBTQIA+,
Writer, editor, journalist. Feminism, disability, LGBTQI+, professional northerner. Freelance & ed @GlobalComment. @incurablehippie@social.coop

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Freelance writer, editor & proofreader. Journalism. Comms. Feminism, tech, disability, LGBT.

Philippa Willitts’s Journalist Portfolio

"Unnecessarily brutal": Waiting times at Sheffield's gender clinic reach breaking point

"Unnecessarily brutal": Waiting times at Sheffield's gender clinic reach breaking point

With an average wait of just under two years for a first appointment, trans people referred to Sheffield's Po…

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As Sheffield opens up, for some of us, our world shrinks

As Sheffield opens up, for some of us, our world shrinks

Lockdowns have been brutal for disabled people, but they have also made it easier for us to participate. We'r…

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A patchwork of queer experiences

A patchwork of queer experiences

When three people got together in the Red Deer to talk about Sheffield's LGBT+ history, they didn't really ha…

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Philippa Willitts

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"It shows that it's not a safe place, for me": Doncaster's Askern Festival criticised for putting...

"It shows that it's not a safe place, for me": Doncaster's Askern Festival criticised for putting...

What is it like for indie musicians in Sheffield when someone who admitted to domestic violence is given a to…

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“What if Sleeping Beauty could rescue herself?”: Fierce Fairytales review

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By Philippa Willitts Verified
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I was a very girly-girl when I was small. I grew up on fairy tales, usually read to me by my dad, and imagined myself as every princess I heard about. I adored those stories, and it was only as an adult that I saw just how dark and disturbing many of them are. These stories we tell children are full of messy tropes about gender roles, constant assumptions that girls’ only dream of marrying a prince, and more explicitly fucked-up messaging about consent, parenting, and love.
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Why we need as much public art as possible

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By Philippa Willitts Verified
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I love a trip to a gallery, but I know that the idea of going to a formal exhibition is off-putting to many people. Indeed, I avoided them for many years due to childhood associations with long, darkened rooms full of dull oil paintings of old and dead people. But since learning that they can instead be all about slug sex and butterfly gowns, and dark oil paintings can be avoided, they’re a lovely treat these days.
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Watch - Global Comment

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By Kate Lillie, Mark Farnsworth Verified, Philippa Willitts Verified
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Over the past few months, we've watched a series of revolutions in cinema history. We've seen Italian Neorealism strip away studio artifice in pursuit of authenticity, explored how Method acting... If you haven’t seen Daniel Roher’s film Tuner, then you need to remedy that quickly. Leo Woodall is Niki White a former New York musical prodigy turned piano tuner who suffers from hyperacusis.... Travel can broaden the mind, but are we doing too much of it? And, when we do, is it causing harm?
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, when I was a child

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Nancy Drew

When's the best time to pitch you?

At something-relevant-to-what-I-write-about o'clock