A route to success
Reviewed by Thomas Barnett
In the groundbreaking US 2015 National Trans Survey, one-third (33%) of those who saw a healthcare provider in the past year reported having at least one negative experience related to being transgender, such as: being refused treatment, being verbally harassed, being physically or sexually assaulted, or having to teach the provider basic information about trans individuals. 23% of respondents did not see a doctor when they had needed to because of fear of being mistreated as a transgender person.
To address this desperate need for better, non-traumatising access to gender-affirming healthcare, former medical-school buddies Matthew Wetschler and Dr. Jerrica Kirkley founded Plume. Their vision is radical not just for catering to a marginalised community, but also, according to Wetschler, for ‘offer[ing] a way of accessing this…trans-specific care regardless of policy or insurance coverage’ – for a fee of $99/month…
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Plump it up
Reviewed by Emily Gosling
Youth hostels aren’t exactly associated with luxury – nor great branding. For the most part, they’re deemed the cheap and cheerful option; a trip where home comforts are sacrificed for socially minded living, affordability, and a more adventurous sensibility than the average Travelodge. They’re the sorts of places where creaky bunk beds, shower queues, pillows so thin they’re barely more than sheets, and bathrooms that smell like mould and the spectre of athlete’s foot are the norm – the payoff being a sense of community and instant travel pals, if you’re lucky.
Things are changing, though: recent trips through Alicante, the Canaries, and in particular, Lisbon, have revealed that hostels are definitely stepping up their game – privacy curtains, electronic key cards, WhatsApp groups for guests and WiFi far speedier than east London (well, Leyton) have showed hostels to be really upping their game. And all for less than €30 a night.
However, there’s a new hostel in Lyon that’s shattering the perceptions of what a youth hostel is and looks like. Pilobills itself as a ‘new generation youth hostel’, located in a 19th century former college building on the slopes of La Croix-Rousse – a hill that shares its name with the bohemian area surrounding it…
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