Having it all: being a ‘second class’ human but doing it anyway

Writing our lives as underdogs in a species where the males came out on top — and other observations about science, sex and evolution

Josa Keyes
12 min readOct 2, 2021

In 2015, when the Lionesses came home from finishing third in the Women’s World Cup, the Football Association greeted them with this astonishingly sexist tweet:

@England Our #Lionesses go back to being mothers, partners and daughters today, but they have taken on another title —…

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Josa Keyes

Novelist, poet, travel writer and UX copy writer. @Cambridge_uni Creative writing Master’s 2019 @Bruneluni Distinction + Faculty Outstanding Dissertation Prize.