Is being a ‘tortured soul’ a necessary prerequisit for creating good art?
On the romanticisation of trauma and bad mental health in literature. Trigger warning: suicide, mental health. Writing by Maina Flintham...
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- Mar 3, 2022
- 3 min
A Chaos of Masculinity: The Relationship between Dominant and Subordinate Masculinities
Writing by Emily Tennant. Illustration by Paola Lindo Valentina. What is masculinity? Who is allowed to express it, and why are some...
- Mar 3, 2022
- 3 min
A post-lockdown conversation with myself
Writing by Anonymous. Illustration by Sara Pocher. Like many people, I had a lot of time to think during the pandemic. One question I...
- Jan 25, 2022
- 3 min
NFTs: the latest species in the digital art ecosystem
Writing by Isabella Yeo Frank. Illustration by Berenika Murray (@photograberry_). On the last day of 2021, Eminem spent $462,000 on an...
- Jan 25, 2022
- 8 min
The Evolution of the Period Drama Genre
Writing by Aria Tsvetanova. Illustration artist unknown - titled "Allegorical Painting of Two Ladies, English School" and dated to the...
- Jan 25, 2022
- 4 min
From Asian Faces to Asian Aesthetics: the Legacy of James Bond’s Anti-Asian Racism
Writing by Juules Bare. Illustration via Unsplash. To say that the James Bond franchise has a complicated legacy would be an...
- Nov 25, 2021
- 6 min
Cottagecore, or why the pandemic made us embrace rural fantasy
Writing by Aria Tsvetanova. Illustration by Berenika Murray (@photograberry_) Thatched roof cottages, pies and loaves of bread cooling on...
- Sep 23, 2021
- 6 min
Finding Sexual Freedom Being Trapped by my Own Body
Writing by Ellie Bye. Illustration by Lana Fawaz. At the centre of all life is sex. It is, possibly, the most natural thing on our...
- Sep 23, 2021
- 3 min
Sober, queer, and finally free
Writing by T. Elliot. Illustration by Berenika Murray. TW: contains mentions of alcohol abuse. If you are worried about your own or...
- Sep 23, 2021
- 3 min
Edinburgh and Disability: How accessible is the city now that we have “freedom” again?
Writing by Bella Henricks. Illustration by Berenika Murray. August 2021 saw the vast majority of Covid restrictions lifted in Scotland....
- Sep 23, 2021
- 6 min
Limbo: Waiting to be Free
Writing by Ali Gavin. To be trapped every day in anxious anticipation is not to be free. To be forced into this after a period of...
- Sep 23, 2021
- 5 min
“It is okay to dance alone”
How The Roop’s 2021 Eurovision Entry might encourage us to practice self love and find comfort in isolation. Writing and illustration by...
- Sep 23, 2021
- 5 min
The Feminine Mystique: Is it a textbook for female liberation?
Writing by Sylvie Dulson. Illustration by Dafne de Fine Licht. Betty Friedan’s powerful book, The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963 is...
- Sep 23, 2021
- 3 min
How Gender Impacts Freedom in Black Bear
Writing by Georgia Bennett. Illustration by Heather Baillie Samuel Beckett’s two-act absurdist play, Waiting for Godot was famously...
- Apr 27, 2021
- 6 min
The Art of Letters: Works by Zarina Hashmi and Sophie Calle
Writing and Illustration by Selin Genc. Unfurling on sand-coloured Japanese Kozo paper are swift strokes of handwritten Urdu script. The...
- Apr 27, 2021
- 5 min
The Image in a Network
Writing by Laura Baliman. Illustration by Sarah Phelan. All art exists within a network – a series of connections to other pieces, to...
- Apr 27, 2021
- 6 min
You're Invited to AFTERS
Writing by Rhiannon Auriol. Illustration by Miriam Craddock. The afterlife is the after party: a choreography of mangled bodies -...
- Apr 27, 2021
- 8 min
Voglio che tu mi tocchi - love and longing from Dante Alighieri to Christine and the Queens
Writing by Ruby Kellman. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. What do Dante Alighieri and Christine and the Queens have in common? At first...
- Apr 27, 2021
- 3 min
Flowers, Sticks and Blood: The Legacy of Ana Mendieta
Writing by Rebecca Scherer. Illustration by Orla Chambers. Born into a politically prominent family and raised in Havana, Cuba during the...
- Apr 26, 2021
- 4 min
Annette Messager’s Artful Communitas
Writing and Illustration by Selin Genc. A flock of taxidermy sparrows lie like sleeping little children, cosily tucked, wrapped in tiny...
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