Solidarity and Apocalypse
Writing by Jamie McDonald. We lurch out of the coronavirus frying pan back into the climate wildfire. The world may have stopped for two...
- Jun 1
- 4 min
Queer Survival in an Apocalyptic World
Writing by Noushka Summerfield. Illustration by Dafne de Fine Licht. “Good evening fellow cisgender heterosexuals, and of course, normal...
- Jun 1
- 6 min
Our Red Heifer
Writing by Gabriel Brody. Illustration by Cat Easeman. Somewhere in the American Southeast there is a man called Clyde Lott, who, at this...
- Mar 3
- 3 min
‘I was called a skank because my high school did not have stables’
The intersection of classism and misogyny at Edinburgh University[1] Writing by Grace Gallagher. Illustration by Dani Rothmann. Despite...
- Mar 3
- 4 min
The Chaos and Confusion of Catholic Sex-Ed
Writing by Elsa Simmons. Illustration by Berenika Murray. Leaving my Catholic secondary school offered a certain clarity to my experience...
- Jan 25
- 4 min
A Logo On Every Leaf?
Writing by Bill Hodgkinson. Illustration by Justine White. Tucked away in chapter four of On the Origin of Species lies one of Darwin’s...
- Jan 25
- 4 min
Far from democratising money, Cryptocurrency is the next evolution in Disaster Capitalism
Writing by Jamie McDonald. Illustration by Berenika Murray (@photograberry_). The world lurches in a crypto-chasm. In 2021, El Salvador...
- Jan 25
- 3 min
My body, someone else’s choice: Abortions through history
Writing by Emma Brennan. Illustration by Berenika Murray. Like many aspects of women’s lives throughout history, men have often used...
- Sep 23, 2021
- 5 min
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...
- Sep 23, 2021
- 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...
- Sep 23, 2021
- 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,...
- Apr 27, 2021
- 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...
- Apr 27, 2021
- 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...
- Apr 27, 2021
- 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...
- Apr 27, 2021
- 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...
- Apr 27, 2021
- 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...
- Apr 27, 2021
- 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...
- Feb 26, 2021
- 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...
- Feb 26, 2021
- 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...
- Feb 26, 2021
- 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...