5th January 2024
Is communication the be all and end all of friendship? In recent years, men have been boxed into categories by the media. Men are portrayed as uncommunicative, emotionless, or too laddy. I won’t lie, I have used these terms to describe the behaviour of men in my life. But as a woman, have I been ...
5th January 2024
Sleep Secrets from a Sleep Connoisseur Out of all the things to struggle with, imagine sleep being your arch-nemesis. Surely the bar could not be any lower, and yet you cannot successfully do something that you need to survive. Fear not, you are not alone! Contrary to various studies claiming insomnia affects 30 to 50% ...
5th January 2024
Relaxing is complicated. Countless Turnitin deadlines to hit on the same day, union socials you promised you would ‘show face at’, investing in quality time with your flatmates – it is no wonder why everyone is facing extreme burnout so early on in the academic year. The feeling of being overwhelmed can be brought on ...
14th October 2023
Advice for anyone who either has, or feels they may have, a neurodivergent brain It is said that over one in 100 people in the UK have autism. This figure, alongside the statistic that over 15% of the UK population is neurodivergent, suggests to me that there will likely be some neurodivergent student readers of ...
14th October 2023
Why you don’t want to exercise When we imagine exercising, perhaps the first image that comes to mind is a runner on a treadmill. No headphones in, a stern face, fast pace, manic glint in the eye. It’s a psychopath, we’re thinking of a psychopath. The Physical Education we received in school has likely informed ...
28th March 2023
Rebecca Richard offers a counterpoint to negative stories about the pill. “Suck it up”. What we’re so often told as young girls navigating periods for the first time. We’re expected to sit the hardest exams we’ve experienced so far, take on extracurriculars, maintain healthy lives and friendships all the while wondering if the pulsing pain ...
1st February 2023
Kate Fryer discusses why we are still shaming people for their sexual preferences. For a while, “no kink shaming!” has been the headline exclamation of many a friendly sex-based convo. This acceptance of a wide range of sexual preferences and desires is something I, and undeniably many others, can get behind. Moving away from the ...
20th December 2022
Becca Luke shares her experiences with antidepressants, and discusses the stigma that still surrounds them. Antidepressants saved my life. Whilst I find myself joking about my “dependency” on a box of happy little pills and I acknowledge that by no means were they a miracle, overnight, magic pill, Mirtazapine gave me my life back. When ...
20th December 2022
Views editor Alisha Vaswani discusses her experience with food guilt. Content Warning: Mention of disordered eating September 25 2022 (according to my UberEats order history), I spent most of the night intermittently working through a strange type of shame. It’s one I’ve experienced so often that it’s come to feel commonplace – but I always ...
2nd March 2022
The battle of living the student life with an eating disorder. Content warning: Eating disorders I consider myself to be a relatively brave person: the thought of jumping out of a plane, with nothing but a scrap of fabric to save me, thrills me, the dark intoxicating heights make me feel alive. So why then ...
