Creamfields, cops, and the failure of Britain’s war on drugs
Writing by Frankie Ryan-Casey. Illustration by Antonia Popescu (@amp_aesthetics). For almost six decades, British governments have been...
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Sep 23, 20214 min read
Freedom and Climate Change
Writing and illustration by Hannah Udall. In 2019 Greta Thunberg brought the world’s attention to a phenomenon called ‘Climate Justice’....
Sep 23, 20214 min read
The PCSC bill, fascism and political freedom.
Writing by Amy Life. Illustration by Heather Baillie. The word fascism feels foreign here in the land of tea, politeness and...
Jul 6, 20214 min read
In Conversation with Nat - the Edinburgh Uni student running down rape culture
Written By Lauren Galligan. Photograph by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona. ‘It’s not about creating divides, but about tackling this problem...
May 6, 20215 min read
The Youth Vote UK: The Importance of Young People at the Voting Booths
Writing by Ali Gavin. Illustration by Polly Burnay. At the time of writing this article, it seems that the news cycle is moving with more...
Apr 27, 20216 min read
Running the Gimlet: the domino effect of racism exposés in new media
Writing by Paula Lacey. Illustration from Twitter (@ChrisLestrange). In the summer of 2020, following the murder of George Floyd,...
Apr 27, 20214 min read
Fields of Mycelia
Writing by J. Bare. Illustration by Josie Berry. Stock-still behemoths of bark and sap, adorned with looping vines. Vast spaces cluttered...
Apr 27, 20213 min read
I just came here to make friends and get a degree…
Writing by Ayesha Dawson. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. Content warning: contains discussion of sexual assault. My all-girl school did...
Apr 27, 20216 min read
The UK Prison Industrial Complex and the Lifeline of Literature
Writing by Rosaleen Keehan. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. In the conversation surrounding prison abolition, the UK often seems to be...
Feb 26, 20216 min read
Healing from Heterosexuality: lockdown as recovery from compulsory heterosexuality
Writing by Olivia Richmond-Ferns. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. It is almost March again. Lockdown for many meant instability and...
Feb 26, 20216 min read
An Armie Hammer take, but not the one you’d think.
Writing by Paula Lacey. Illustration by Iz Gius. I have a confession. Every day of January, the first thing I did after waking up was...
Feb 26, 20216 min read
The Democratic Caucus Tends to its Roots
Writing by Alex Hendy. Illustration by Phoebe McGowan. Four years of Joe Biden are understandably unappealing to those who had hoped that...
Feb 26, 20215 min read
Recovering from Trumpism
Writing by Lucy Adkin. Illustration by Sara Dobbs. Ever since the storming of the Capitol, the massive divide within the nation has...
Feb 26, 20214 min read
Breaking the disordered eating pattern: an isolated recovery
Writing by Holly Mackin. Illustration by Sam Geldard. Eating disorders are the ugliest of illnesses, yet are commonly said to stem from a...
Feb 26, 20212 min read
'Finding a purpose in life becomes ever so important' - recovery as a survivor of domestic abuse
Writing by Ece Kucuk. Illustration by Polly Burnay. There comes a point in time when you’ve reached a clearing in your road to recovery...
Jan 31, 20214 min read
James Connolly's work has an enduring relevance for Scottish nationalists
Writing by Rufus Pickles. Illustration by Hazel Laing. At the height of the British Empire and as the long nineteenth century drew to a...
Jan 16, 20216 min read
“I’m the main character”: the commodification of the individual under modern capitalism
Writing by Amelia Lockhart-Hourigan. Illustration by Violet Colley. Social media can be a wondrous place. It gives us an opportunity to...
Dec 18, 20205 min read
Classism, Elitist Microaggressions, and Alienation: Scottish Students at the University of Edinburgh
Writing by Tackling Elitism (Daniel Geen, Lauren Galligan, and Eve Simpson). Illustration by Dani Rothmann. Tackling Elitism is a group...
Dec 18, 20207 min read
Interview with Rent Justice Edinburgh
Writing by Paula Lacey. Illustration by Heather Baillie. Although most year groups have been let down by UoE’s mishandling of the...
Dec 18, 20203 min read
'Forever an Isolating Existence' - Migration and Integration
Writing and Illustration by Antonia Popescu. The discourse around isolation when it comes to migrants is, more often than not,...
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