Chasing success: Is being productive killing our identities?
By Abubakar Shabbir Placing productivity above all else is the roboticization of humanity. As a kid I played a videogame called Toontown....
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Dec 17, 20204 min read
Business in the front, partisan in the back? Why fashion’s most contested hairstyle has made its ret
By Tom Vaughan ‘History repeats itself’ is the phrase that springs to mind when thinking about one particular hairstyle — the mullet....
Oct 28, 20204 min read
Black History Month: Inspirational Black history-makers
By Ellie Di Matteo In celebration of Black History Month, we want to bring attention to some inspirational Black people in history who...
Oct 17, 20206 min read
Witches Gone Wild: The feminism behind witchcraft
Witchcraft, with its traditional practitioners generally being women, has many ties to feminist concepts. In European history, we see...
Oct 10, 20206 min read
Witches Gone Wild: Being open to the world of woo
The little-known worlds of witchcraft and woo are places most people would not consider to step foot into, unless maybe foolishly...
Sep 23, 20205 min read
Why Bisexuality Awareness Week is still so essential in 2020
I am a bisexual woman. I have full access to social media, the news, the internet and yet, I’m only finding out about bisexuality...
Aug 18, 20204 min read
Cottagecore: A queer movement turned mainstream
By Ellie Redpath These days, most people – or, at any rate, most online people – have heard of the cottagecore aesthetic, if at least...
Jul 14, 20203 min read
Cultures have celebrated gender nonconformity and non-binary identity for centuries
Today July 14th celebrates International Non-Binary People’s Day, an occasion to raise awareness about and organise around the issues...
Jul 3, 20206 min read
‘Gender? I hardly know her!’: Gender nonconformity in France
By Wyn Turner Note from author I’ll be using neutral they/them pronouns for Charles, since every piece of academic writing on them is in...
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