The female game designers fighting back on abortion rights

Through video games, live-action role-playing games and interactive documentaries, developers are challenging the conversation around reproductive rights

Nimko Ali: ‘Orgasms and sexual pleasure are a human right. I guard these things with my life’

For her first book, the anti-FGM campaigner spoke to 150 women around the world about sex, periods and more. She shares what she learned, and why she supports Boris Johnson

Three to tango: the pregnant dancer duetting with her husband

A screen role as an expectant dancer prepared Bobbi Jene Smith for the real thing. She talks about doing the bump … with a bump

Learning to overcome my fear of singing was as easy as do-re-mi

I thought I couldn’t sing. Then I discovered there’s no such thing as ‘tone deaf’ – and that singing is not very different to speaking

Mescaline by Mike Jay review – a global history of the first psychedelic

From the ancient Andes to Aldous Huxley’s trousers – the uses and abuses of ‘fiendish cactus juice’

Pregnant and Platonic review – what’s it like to have a baby with a stranger?

There’s warmth and emotion – if also some awkwardness – in this gentle documentary about a matchmaking service for wannabe co-parents

Notes to Self by Emilie Pine review – a life laid bare in essays

Despite her painful material, the Irish academic’s debut collection of essays is wry and uplifting

The Heartland review – fascinating study of schizophrenia

Nathan Filer redefines our understanding of the illness

Mother Ship by Francesca Segal review – a moving story about motherhood

A remarkable memoir-diary about giving birth to premature twins is also a love letter to solidarity