24th December 2021
The gender-neutral section of many retailers looks suspiciously like the men’s section… If you type “gender-neutral clothing” into Google, you will be inundated with tens of thousands of hits – ads, websites, listicles of the 10, 12, 20 best gender-neutral clothing brands, and articles exploring just what gender-neutral clothing actually is? Unisex clothes gives you ...
24th December 2021
Claire Thomson offers advice on travelling while keeping the baggage to a minimum. We’re all starting to get excited about the prospect of going away for the weekend again, but the thought of what to pack often makes us want to stay at home. It’s always the what-if situations that scare us into overpacking and ...
24th December 2021
Features Columnist Niamh Flanagan emphasises why we need to bin this particular Christmas tradition. We are almost at Christmas day. The festive tension is palpable, Mariah Carey can be heard around every corner you turn, and every other shop window is festooned with red, green and gold. Whether you’re a tree up on the first ...
24th December 2021
Basilia Weir examines the faults of the UK government throughout the pandemic, highlighting the most recent scandal of the Christmas parties held last year. I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t surprised to learn that the Conservatives had a Christmas party last year when Covid-19 cases were on the rise and indoor socialising was ...
24th December 2021
Discovering a “magical, timeless, and potentially life changing” writer. Through his profession as a comparative mythologist, Joseph Campbell made it his life’s quest to uncover many of the universal truths and mysteries that underpin this great tide of existence of which we are all a part: what it is to be a human being and, ...
24th December 2021
The unlikely relatability of one woman and her guinea pig-themed cafe. In November 2019, when the term “mask” conjured calming connotations of Halloween, I attended a cinema screening of the National Theatre Live’s production of Fleabag by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Waller-Bridge’s original critically acclaimed play, Fleabag, debuted at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was eventua...
24th December 2021
Writer Trey Kyeremeh analyses the Sundance favourite, considering its creative choices and what it means to truly “pass”. Rebecca Hall’s Passing is a film based on the same-titled novel written by Nella Larson in 1929. Set in 1920s Harlem, New York, the black and white drama explores the entanglement of childhood friends Irene (played by ...
24th December 2021
Pitchfork’s recent re-scoring fiasco reveals the misogynistic snobbery still haunting music criticism. Music site pitchfork.com consider themselves to be “the most trusted voice in music”, but I prefer to consider them as BuzzFeed for male manipulators. To celebrate its 25th birthday, the publication released a list of albums re-scored. Of all their pseudointellectual listicles this ...
24th December 2021
Jeevan Farthing reflects back on Cullen’s satirical protest piece, which criticized the greenwashing of Shell in the form of a “Hell Bus” during COP26. *This artwork was installed during COP26 and ran until 13 November* Parked incongruously at the back end of The Glasgow School of Art is the Hell Bus. It is the creation ...
24th December 2021
In this first entry our new series that looks at the first non-Hollywood productions you encountered or the ones that changed your perspective on cinema and what it could be, Daniel explores the personal significance of French horror Raw (2016). It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when my interest in film and cinema as an artistic ...
