It’s a warm April day and you have spent the last three hours in the library working on a summative. You check your phone and all your friends are in the SU bar. You hastily pack up your laptop and books and stroll down the concrete stairs and into the warm, welcoming pub. The light…
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Making the choice to go instagram sober
For a few weeks now, I have been Instagram sober. I decided to delete the app from my phone because I was terribly bored of my relationship with it. I’ve done this a few times before, when I grew irritated at seeing people I didn’t know out for dinner, or mindlessly scrolling through someone’s holiday…
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‘The argument over the rainbow poppy is so juvenile’
Surrounding the date of Remembrance Day, another controversy popped up on Twitter. A screenshot of a glittery, rainbow poppy being sold on eBay caused outrage amongst people, arguing that LGBTQ+ people were trying to hijack Remembrance Day. There were multiple dividing opinions, with people stating that many LGBTQ+ people would have died in the war…
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‘I’m tired of countless sexist comments’
The other day I was having an internal dispute that I often have: how to be a palatable feminist. In other words, how do I engage actively with feminism, always questioning people’s internalised misogyny whilst not being portrayed as an irritating ‘man-hater’? I used to be one of those girls that didn’t want to cause much…