Today you called me an angel. You cannot know how true that was, for last night I arrived just in time to loosen the noose around a dear friends neck.. Today you called me a devil, grotesque, a whore. I swallow the words inside me and push them as far down as they can go, I cannot deal with this now. The words you said will rest beneath the surface until I'm the right amount of broken for them to really make an effect. Today I got a phone call, "your friend has been rushed to

Ok, so let’s be honest, plastic will never disappear completely from our lives. And there’s no reason certain plastics shouldn’t if they are used in the right way. But something we must all be terribly aware of by now is that we need to stop using one-use throwaway plastics, because it’s killing our world. Single-use plastic items have been recorded as making up around 50% of marine litter! Amazing news hit the internet this month when MEPs backed the EU’s plan to ban throwaw

There is a massive issue that we need to all be made aware of and address. Ok, so it's not really about 'Netflix & Chill'.. but let me ask you something. How often do you settle down for Netflix & Chill, or to watch TV or a movie, and merely 5-10 minutes in, you or someone you're with are on the mobile? How many of us at school, or at work, are picking up our phones instead of concentrating on the work at hand? How many of us take our phone to the toilet in order to 'not be b

I have been modelling for a while now, around 4 years in fact. I love modelling! It is empowering and freeing, you get to meet and make friends with some amazing people and work on wonderful projects together. All the hard work will pay off and you will be left with beautiful images. And these images can do a great many things! You can tell a story, bring across a message, express something your passionate about or simply just have fun through modelling/photography. A few mon

August has always been a busy month. The kids are off of school, there are a million odd music, food and booze festivals, it’s the perfect time to travel abroad for a holiday in the sun. So it should come as no surprise that this month is just as busy in the world of buhurt. The first weekend of August opens with the dutch buhurt team Lions of Steel hosting a fun and friendly little event at Castlefest, a magical festival held near Amsterdam. Representatives of Lions of Steel

On 14th June, a HMB female fighter came up with a brilliant idea to bring the women of the sport together through a fitness challenge. Now, it is a somewhat stereotypical statement, but you often find that many women (not all) cannot execute a strict pull-up. There are many reasons for this, usually because for whatever reason, even if into fitness, women tend to train lower body strength rather than upper body strength. So the idea of the buhurt #bikinipullup challenge was b

I have the pleasure of knowing many beautiful and supportive women. In the past month I have had immeasurable support from several of them. From my team in Swords of Cygnus, to the buhurt warriors across the globe during the #buhurtbikinipullupchallenge. From the women in my family, to many women in music. It fills me with rejoice that the list is too long to name them one by one, but in this piece I would like to make a special mention to a group of unbelievably generous and

What did you do before you went into your business? Before going into the tattoo industry, I worked within retail for a short time and then moved into hospitality both nationally and internationally. Within hospitality I worked predominantly in catering and customer service. What made you choose to create your own business? The main driving force behind creating my own business was the need to be independent and true to myself. The freedom of having something I could call my

Hello modern world, we need to talk. There’s a plague that WE, as a race, are solely responsible for unleashing on the world, and it’s plastic. Thanks to our exponential growth of population and our hungry for convenient consumerism, we have infected Mother Earth and her living creatures with plastic. No one is surprised to hear about plastic waste floating around rivers or canals let alone the open ocean. What people are finding shocking, is the consequence of having this wa

Goch Winter Fight Cup. Our first Buhurt League tournament of 2018, the first time Swords of Cygnus gather to fight after officially registering on the Buhurt League, and the first women’s 5v5. How can I explain the excitement? Since Women’s 5v5 Buhurt had been announced for the World Championships this year, we have been bubbling with anticipation of finally having the numbers in the list to work some real tactics. The prospect of a 5v5 fight compared to a 3v3 is a complete g

It should come to no surprise to anyone that life is a struggle. For, life has always been a struggle hasn’t it? It seems like the struggle simply morphs and changes and grows with you as you age, never truly leaving. A constant, solemn companion. One that reminds you not to get too comfortable or content, to remain humble and prepared. I feel like I have been struggling terribly the past year. Even more so in the past few months. I have a problem that materialises in the inf

Hey Becky! Thanks for taking the time to be interviewed for Warrior Woman Magazine, you have been nominated Musician of The Month! How does that feel? It feels great! I’ve seen the magazine grow organically with more and more contributors and supporters every month. I think these growing collectives are very important in tackling wider presumptions of women. Thank you for nominating me! So, tell us a bit about you: I am a bass player living in Bristol. I play with a number of

What am I? I am an artist, a musician, a writer and leather crafter. I am a vlogger, blogger, stop-motion animator and songwriter. I am captain of a women’s full contact sports team, front woman of two bands, model. I am a student and a paid worker. I am founder, CEO and editor of Warrior Women Magazine. I am a thinker, a creator. I come up with thousands of ideas every day. Yet, I feel lost in myself. It was once or twice, not so lovingly, said to me that I’m “a jack of all

Hey guys! Thanks for taking the time to be interviewed for our magazine; you have been nominated Musicians of The Month! How does that feel? That’s very heart-warming for us, thank you very much for the kind nomination. We really appreciate every feedback, especially positives ones. Hope your readers will find pleasure in our music. You have just released an album, tell us more about it: We have released our debut full-length, The Odyssey one year ago, which was a huge step f

I have always had some knowledge of what Re-enactment is. Perhaps it was a lack of love for the history of battles, but replaying fights of the past never really interested me that much. When I started college and made some new friends, I was introduced to LARP. At first it seemed exciting, but for me, the prospect of relying on a fictional alter-ego character, and fighting with hit points rather than actual skill and brute strength, soon made me lose interest in it. Meanderi

Hi Vic, you are quite an aspiring young lady with several different ongoing projects at the moment! Tell us a little about what you’re up to at the moment: Hi, I am an alternative model known as Vic Sin, I am running one of the largest alternative fashion shows in the south west! I also am a trained photographer and I am a fashion designer as a hobby. How do you find managing your time and organising your different projects? I naturally hate being late so I think this general

This is not an easy subject to talk about. These are somewhat defining moments, they cause us to act and grow into the people we are. When you think about it, anything of actual importance is never that easy, so let me start from a beginning. My beginning. I remember being introduced to things of a sexual nature when I was far too young. This part of my beginning, I shall not go into. I remember being about 14, barely developing any physical attributes of a woman. Walking in

Please start with a short introduction telling us a little about yourself: I’m currently studying photography in my third year of college. I have studied art mostly in my life, but as my ideas have grown I want to branch out into expressing myself and interests in all art forms and one of them is photography. I enjoy capturing true moments in nature and the beauty in the ‘ugly’ such as abandoned places which has come to be one of my many hobbies, Urban Exploring, which requir

Tell us a little about yourself: I’m 34 and live in Bath, UK. I’m an artist, writer and crafter! My short stories and poems have been published both in print and online, in magazines and as part of anthology collection books. Most of my art is done on a commission basis or for my own projects. My crafting is varied, and covers many forms of jewellery making, costume design and pagan tools. I also work in polymer clay and wood. What did you do before you went into your busines

Please introduce yourself: My names wilL Clutterbuck +How did you get started? I got started in school when i found art to be pretty much the only thing i was good at or enjoyed +What is your work all about? My work is mainly based on my thoughts and feelings at the time, or the people around me +What makes you tick/drives you? Again, my thoughts and feelings, and also just general interests +How did you find your style? Has it changed since you first started? I always drew r