Can Freedom Really Be Measured by One Number?
Writing by Jamie McDonald. Illustration by Juliet Richards. Freedom House is a US-based non-profit organisation, famous for its annual...
Rattlecap Writers
- Sep 23
- 3 min
“The Customer is Always Right”: Workplace Freedom in the Era of Covid-19
Writing by Clare Edwards. Illustration by Berenika Murray. “The customer is always right”: a phrase familiar to anyone who has ever...
Rattlecap Writers
- Sep 23
- 2 min
Civil Society: Confronting modern challenges through collective power and individual empowerment
Writing by Martha Loach, a member of Studenteer. Illustration by Isi Williams. As we face seemingly insurmountable economic,...
Rattlecap Writers
- Apr 27
- 4 min
Celebrity Crushes in the 19th century: Eugen Sandow, queer friendship, and postcard mania
Writing by Ruby Hann. Illustration by Polly Burnay. A few days ago, a friend forwarded me the Instagram post of a celebrity we both...
Rattlecap Writers
- Apr 27
- 4 min
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...
Rattlecap Writers
- Apr 27
- 6 min
Folklore and the Collective Unconscious: The Mythological Connection Between Disparate Cultures
Writing by Ali Gavin. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. Most of us have grown up hearing stories - or the remnants of stories - that date...
Rattlecap Writers
- Apr 27
- 3 min
Sorry, you're breaking up... my existential angst over virtual ‘connection’
Writing by Mia Cappabianca. Illustration by Bethany Morton. The Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre's writing evokes a certain kind of teenage...
Rattlecap Writers
- Apr 27
- 3 min
Germany’s Complicated Connection With Its Past
Writing by Annabel Wilde. Illustration from Unsplash. Vergangenheitsbewältigung - the concept of struggling to overcome the past - is an...
Rattlecap Writers
- Apr 27
- 6 min
Geographies of the mind and the psychology of place attachment
Writing by Isabelle Woodhouse. Illustration by Caitlin Osfield. Imagine the mind: how scientists illustrate the human brain and the...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 26
- 6 min
Can British education recover from its homophobic past?
Writing by Ruby Kelman. Illustration by Phoebe McGowan. The acronyms used in this article vary to match the terminology used in the...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 26
- 4 min
Decolonising the Mind
Writing by Fernanda de Szyszlo. Illustration by Heather Baillie. Despite growing up in Peru, my history classes did not focus on our...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 26
- 6 min
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...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 26
- 5 min
Statues, stories and setting the record straight: recovering marginalised voices of the past.
Writing by Isabelle Woodhouse. Illustration by Polly Burnay. We tend to instinctively envisage the past as a linear timeline, dotted with...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 26
- 5 min
The Future of Notre Dame
Writing by Elif Yildiz. Illustration by Phoebe McGowan. ‘The Church of Notre-Dame de Paris is still no doubt, a majestic and sublime...
Rattlecap Writers
- Jan 31
- 4 min
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...
Rattlecap Writers
- Jan 16
- 6 min
“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...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 18, 2020
- 5 min
Why Isolationist Forms of Punishment Don’t Work
Writing by Yu An Su. Illustration by Sarah Dobbs. This July temperatures in the UK soared to 35 degrees, and news stories emerged about...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 18, 2020
- 4 min
When the Patriarchy Gets Personal: The Isolating Mechanics of Internalised Misogyny
Writing by Tamzin Elliot. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. Hint: that voice in your head telling you that ‘you’re not like other girls’?...
Rattlecap Writers
- Nov 1, 2020
- 4 min
A (Brief) Introduction to Identity Politics
Writing by Tamzin Elliot. Illustration by Heather Baillie (@heatherscreativeplace). Maybe you’ve been feeling the pressure to keep...
Rattlecap Writers
- Nov 1, 2020
- 4 min
Identity's role in the debate on Linguistic Relativity
Writing by Eilish Newmark. In May, the Cambridge Union YouTube page live-streamed an interview with Noam Chomsky where he was asked about...