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‘Football was a no-go area for us as Brown people, but also as women’: Gurinder Chadha on the enduring legacy of Bend It Like Beckham

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‘Football was a no-go area for us as Brown people, but also as women’: Gurinder Chadha on the enduring legacy of Bend It Like Beckham

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Jess Bacon, author of ‘I’m Just a Girl', on why we all need to embrace our “second girlhood”

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