Serena Smith
Freelance Writer
Serena Smith is deputy editor at Dazed and freelance writer for publications including Cosmopolitan UK, Grazia, The Guardian, and more. She writes about society, lifestyle, and culture, with a particular interest in sex and relationships, dating culture, and gender politics. She also extensively covers youth culture and Gen Z trends, and in 2022 she wrote a column for Prospect Magazine on life as a young person in the UK. She's currently a Senior Fellow for the John Schofield Trust. In 2021, she was shortlisted for a Freelance Writing Award in the News and Investigations category and highly commended in the Fashion and Beauty category. You can follow her on X here.
‘Are your dating apps encouraging sexual racism? I went up against the algorithm to find out’
When Serena Smith rejoined dating apps after a break-up, she got vanishingly few matches — that is, until she changed her race to ‘white’
The inescapable appeal of the messy man: a deeply unserious investigation
Pete Davidson may have flown the nest, but there are plenty of scrawny, scuzzy-looking versions of this softboy archetype. Why, asks one enduring fan, can’t we get enough?
A new reality show asks: can women ‘train’ their bad boyfriends to be better? Should they?
On Olivia Atwood’s Bad Boyfriends, eight men are sent to ‘boyfriend bootcamp’. But the show isn’t the feminist utopia it seems to think it is
Move aside Brat Summer, we are all demure now — do catch up
Endless social expectations or the duality of womanhood?