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...
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Sep 23, 20216 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20216 min read
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, 20215 min read
“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, 20215 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20216 min read
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, 20215 min read
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, 20216 min read
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, 20218 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20214 min read
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...
Feb 26, 20216 min read
It's (not) A Sin: why the world has yet to recover from the AIDS crisis
Writing by Rhiannon Auriol. Illustration by Heather Baillie. Quick flex: I met the writer Russell T Davies once. It was 2015 and I was...
Feb 26, 20217 min read
Art as an Antidote to Uncertainty and Isolation
Writing by Emma Lake. Illustration from Rattlecap Painting Session. 2020 was a year characterised by uncertainty and isolation, feelings...
Feb 26, 20216 min read
Art and Addiction: An Interview with Artists in Recovery
Writing by Ali Gavin. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. Mark Anderson founded Artists in Recovery (AiR) in 2018 after coming to a...
Feb 26, 20214 min read
Recovering From the Grip of Productivity and Purpose
Writing by Amy Life. Illustration by Bethany Morton. Enticing both visually and emotionally, Disney’s Soul seeks to question a deep...
Feb 26, 20213 min read
Did Covid-19 redefine art?
Writing by Antonina Dolecka. Illustration by Bethany Morton. Do you still remember museums? That mesmerising feeling of wandering through...
Feb 6, 20217 min read
I May Destroy You Being Snubbed by the Golden Globes Says Everything About the World We Live In
Writing by Claire Shankie. Illustration by Paola Valentina. Content Warning: sexual assault, racism The reactions to the exclusion of I...
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