Scotland’s Fate: A Plea to Non-Scottish Students at the University of Edinburgh
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq The University of Edinburgh is a strongly international space. While three-tenths of its undergrads are...
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Jasmine Owen-Moulding
Oct 23, 20236 min read
The Resurrection of Fresh Air: In Conversation with Edinburgh’s Student Radio Station
Our Creative Director, Jasmine Owen Moulding, chatted with Fresh Air’s Station Manager -Elizabeth Ashley, Assistant Station Manager –...
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Gem Kirwan
Oct 5, 20233 min read
Chance: A Review
Chance, a student production directed by Yolan Noszkay and Niamh Kelliher, follows Aaron, a Year 11 student from a Northern working-class...
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Sorcha Tipping
Sep 19, 20233 min read
The guy doesn’t get the girl: The importance of female friendships in film and literature
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq From children’s fairy tales where the heroine marries the prince, to Hollywood films where the ‘guy gets...
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Tasha Stewart
Aug 28, 20234 min read
Ultra-fast fashion: where others fail, Shein succeeds
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq In recent months fast fashion giant ASOS has recorded unprecedented losses. Leading up to February, sales...
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Gem Kirwan
Aug 28, 20234 min read
Barbie: How the patriarchy’s mascot became a feminist icon
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Barbie was never meant to be a feminist. For decades, Barbie dolls have young girls’ first encounters...
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Nelly Laycock
Aug 28, 20234 min read
Huw Edwards and the Problems of a Modern-Day Scandal
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Early July saw Huw Edwards become the latest presenter to face scrutiny over claims that he paid a...
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William Lewallen
Aug 28, 20234 min read
A Little Life: Embers from Ashes
Spoilers ahead! The translation of art across mediums is a tricky process, whether you are moving from paper pages to a stage production...
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Lara Engel
Aug 22, 20232 min read
Greenwashing: the media’s power over business reputation
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq In today's climate-conscious society, sustainable marketing campaigns are at the forefront of business...
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Grace Murray
Aug 20, 20233 min read
Girl, Eating: A Very Brief History
CW: disordered eating Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq For tonight’s ‘girl dinner’: a meal fit for a cat or a rather peculiar dog. A...
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Niki Cleland-Hura
Jul 14, 20234 min read
Revisiting Dada’s Women
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Dada – an early 20th-century art movement often dubbed ‘anti-art’ or ‘absurdist’ – emerged as a reaction...
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Grace Murray
Jul 3, 20234 min read
Celebrity: You, Too, Could Have It
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Before the late twentieth century, celebrity was defined by difference: individuals were propelled into...
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Maria Saavedra
Jun 20, 20234 min read
Pablo Escobar: why you shouldn’t romanticize Colombia’s nightmare
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq As a Colombian, it never ceases to shock me whenever someone makes a Pablo Escobar or cocaine joke (even...
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Tasha Stewart
Jun 20, 20233 min read
The age of Ozempic highlights the superficiality of body positive
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq The past year has seen a new drug sweeping through the medical cabinets of the Hollywood glitterati....
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Owen Thomas Webb
Jun 14, 20234 min read
The Changing Face of Internationalism
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq It was once written that the emergence of liberal democracies all around the world represented the end of...
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Issy Clarke
Jun 1, 20233 min read
The Misery of Meritocracy
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq I recently read an article in The Economist describing an American university professor’s experience with...
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Owen Thomas Webb
May 29, 20234 min read
What is Money?
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq We live in a material world. We live in a world where people, no matter who or where, need houses to live...
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Owen Thomas Webb
May 1, 20235 min read
Qigong Heavenly Kingdom – The Peculiar World of Shen Yun
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq When Shen Yun came to the Edinburgh Playhouse to perform ‘5,000 Years of Chinese Civilization Reborn’, it...
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Aleyna Petts
Apr 5, 20233 min read
EmPOWERMENt: Repurposing survivor-victim language
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq For as long as I’ve been a feminist, I’ve resented the term survivor being used in gender-based violence...
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Sorcha Tipping
Mar 31, 20234 min read
A pattern of disrespect: how the media influences narratives of dead or missing women
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Recent reports in the mainstream media have demonstrated a pattern of disrespect towards women who have...
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