Surreal news and war
Writing by Megan Howes, artwork by Kate Granholm. Surreal news and war Sometimes looking at the news feels like a surreal daydream....
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Rattlecap Writers
Feb 294 min
Surrealism: a new tactic for ecological liberation?
Writing by Alyssa Mawussi, artwork by Berenika Murray. Over winter break I was distracted from work and found myself looking outside my...
Rattlecap Writers
Dec 5, 20234 min
Gluttony, overconsumption, and hidden sin: how capitalism casts a veil over the production of the
Writing by Lola Carver, photography by Isabela Caramico. It would be hard for most of us to deny that the excitement of a new parcel in...
Rattlecap Writers
Oct 30, 20234 min
Peace as Violence and Violence as Peace
Writing by Jamie McDonald. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan. In response to an existential threat to the body, how do we proceed? This is the...
Rattlecap Writers
Oct 30, 20233 min
Remembering the Dead to Forget the Living
Writing by Enne Tatishcheva. Artwork by Seth Statham. Remembering the Dead to Forget the Living https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/one...
Rattlecap Writers
Oct 30, 20233 min
The ULEZ
Writing by Fleur O'Reilly. Artwork by Isabela Caramico. What Sadiq Khan’s ULE zone means and what more can be done. As someone who’s...
Rattlecap Writers
Feb 25, 20234 min
Prince Harry's Catharsis - A Scotman's Lament.
Writing by Cally Ullman-Smith. Artwork by Berenika Murray. I'm writing this the day after Burn's Night. I hosted the celebration during...
Rattlecap Writers
Feb 6, 20233 min
The UK’s “Top Institution” for Sustainability? Edinburgh Ranks Poorly Once Again in 2022 University
Writing by People and Planet Edinburgh. Artwork by Isi Williams. Last semester, the University of Edinburgh could be seen celebrating on...
Rattlecap Writers
Dec 27, 20226 min
We stopped a screening of transphobic propaganda and next time you should too
Writing by Anonymous. Artwork by Isi Williams. In early December, a screening and discussion of the movie Adult Human Female was...
Rattlecap Writers
Dec 19, 20224 min
The State of Fascism in Italy
Writing by Natasha Stewart. Artwork by Cilla Sullivan On 22nd of October this year, Giorgia Meloni succeeded in becoming Italy's first...
Rattlecap Writers
Dec 19, 20223 min
Revolting for the Climate Crisis
Writing by Alina Pohlmann. Artwork by Berenika Murray. In one of many photographs depicting the afterlife of Pakistan’s monsoons, a...
Rattlecap Writers
Dec 19, 20224 min
What will it take for the UK to revolt?
Writing by Cally Ullman-Smith. Artwork by Berenika Murray. Russian protesters fighting the authorities against all odds, Iranian...
Rattlecap Writers
Dec 19, 20223 min
Autonomous Free Spaces: The Battlegrounds of Berlin
Writing by Lucy Rosenberg. Artwork by Sarah Dobbs. "There are no borders between peoples, only between the top and the bottom." Just over...
Rattlecap Writers
Dec 19, 20223 min
The First Known Death Sentence for Protesting in Iran
Writing by Georgia May. Artwork from Unsplash. Ongoing protest and civil unrest in Iran has culminated in a protester being sentenced to...
Rattlecap Writers
Oct 31, 20223 min
Stop Killer Robots
Writing by Anna Olszewska. Artwork from https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/. Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWs) are still characterised as a...
Rattlecap Writers
Oct 22, 20223 min
Privatised Prisons in a Privatised World
Writing by Melissa Malick. Artwork by Sarah Dobbs. In the 1980s, the United States and United Kingdom governments found themselves unable...
Rattlecap Writers
Oct 22, 20226 min
Liberating the Liberty Caps: Psilosybin Mushrooms and the Battle for Western Legalisation
Writing by Elli Efird. Artwork by Mary Buchanan. “The rejection of any source of evidence is always treason to that ultimate rationalism...
Rattlecap Writers
Oct 22, 20224 min
Labels, Lies, and Greenwashing: How Corporations Are Undermining Our Efforts
Writing by Jamie Calder. Artwork by Berenika Murray. ‘100 fossil fuel producers and nearly 1 trillion tonnes of greenhouse gas...
Rattlecap Writers
Oct 22, 20223 min
The Tories Have Dug the Grave - Now the Labour Party Must Put Them In It
Writing by Ciara Savvides. Artwork by Polly Burnay. The Tory Party have recently revealed their so-called ‘growth’ plan, which will...
Rattlecap Writers
Oct 22, 20224 min
The Damaging Implications of Instagram's Continued Misogynistic Censorship of the Female Body
Writing by Ruth Stainer. Artwork by Berenika Murray. Launched in October 2010, Instagram was initially perceived to be an innovative app...
Rattlecap Writers
Oct 22, 20224 min
Money, Money, Money: How Mass Consumption is Killing the Planet
Writing by Naya Sudra. Artwork by Alina Sandauer. As Halloween is fast approaching, people have begun to purchase costumes and...
Rattlecap Writers
Oct 22, 20223 min
Hope as a Vice
Writing by William Lewallen-Jordan. Artwork by Annie Whiteson. As the last of the warm summer air left and we all stepped into the...
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Jun 1, 20224 min
Emmanuel Macron’s bittersweet victory over right-wing extremist Marine Le Pen
Writing by Ellie Bye. Illustration via Unsplash. There is a sense of déjà vu to the French presidential race this year as it was the same...
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Mar 3, 20222 min
KAOS and The Invasion of Ukraine: Humour as a Coping Mechanism
Writing by Isabella Henricks. Lots of people are making jokes about the invasion of Ukraine in bad taste. However, if there is one...
Rattlecap Writers
Mar 3, 20223 min
Why this is the last time I will ever talk about Boris Johnson.
Writing by Ellie Bye. Illustration by Hannah Grist. When Boris Johnson first came to power, the UK looked, for better or for worse, more...
Rattlecap Writers
Jan 25, 20226 min
A Pandemic of Inaction: the Climate Movement’s Battle Against Chronic Stasis
Writing by Ellie Bye. Illustration by Heather Baillie. As a species, we often think of ourselves as separate from nature. We have usurped...
Rattlecap Writers
Jan 25, 20223 min
Anonymity and Accountability
How anonymous online platforms are changing attitudes and responses to sexual assault and harassment in Edinburgh Writing by Bella...
Rattlecap Writers
Jan 25, 20224 min
Question Evolution, question everything – a graffiti of doubt
Writing by Lilli Steffens. Writing by Berenika Murray. “Question Evolution”. These two words, accompanied by a cross, have recently...
Rattlecap Writers
Jan 8, 20224 min
Molly Mae's '24 Hours' Statement is Symbolic of a Much Wider Issue
Writing by Isi Williams. Image via Unsplash. The recent comments of Love Island star, Molly Mae Hague, went viral last week for their...
Rattlecap Writers
Nov 25, 20215 min
The Taliban Renaissance Should Not Come as a Surprise
Writing by Jamie McDonald. Photograph by Andre Klimke. “I want to say that the hearts of the free world are with you. We will never rest...
Rattlecap Writers
Sep 23, 20215 min
How the Coronavirus Pandemic has sparked an unprecedented discussion about Welsh Independence
Writing by Ruth Stainer. Illustration by Berenika Murray. Devolution, defined as ‘the process of transferring power from the centre to...
Rattlecap Writers
Sep 23, 20215 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...
Rattlecap Writers
Sep 23, 20216 min
Freedom is Limited
Writing by Ece Kucuk. Illustration by Berenika Murray. On 15 July 2021, The High Court of the European Union made a decision that the...
Rattlecap Writers
Sep 23, 20213 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....
Rattlecap Writers
Sep 23, 20215 min
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...
Rattlecap Writers
Sep 23, 20214 min
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’....
Rattlecap Writers
Sep 23, 20214 min
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...
Rattlecap Writers
Jul 6, 20214 min
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...
Rattlecap Writers
May 6, 20215 min
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...
Rattlecap Writers
Apr 27, 20216 min
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,...
Rattlecap Writers
Apr 27, 20214 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...
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Apr 27, 20213 min
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...
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Apr 27, 20216 min
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...
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Feb 26, 20216 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, 20216 min
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...
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Feb 26, 20216 min
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...
Rattlecap Writers
Feb 26, 20215 min
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...
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Feb 26, 20214 min
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...
Rattlecap Writers
Feb 26, 20212 min
'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...
Rattlecap Writers
Jan 31, 20214 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...
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