When someone talks to me about university exam season it fills me with memories. Mostly of scrabbling like an academic goblin to find the right references or chase down an...

CW: Sexual assault One of the obstacles that I have faced as a survivor is that common understandings of people who have faced gender-based violence portray them (portray me) as...

Giving food without asking what in particular someone might like is always patronising and dehumanising. Often even asking someone if they do want anything can feel rude and equally as...

Amongst all absurd ideologies to gain support in recent years (and I acknowledge there have been many), the anti-vax movement has enjoyed a particular surge, notably within the suburban American...

When I was 17 and at Theatre Camp, among many other drama groups there was also a Deaf Youth Theatre Company who's performance was acted out by a group of...

I love this routine! I love seeing the man, I love the warmth of the shop as the rain beats down outside, I love pretending for 5 minutes that I...

Moving to Copenhagen for my year abroad felt like I was detached from a lot of the activism I had participated in Edinburgh. In my second year, I was very...

The Scottish Parliament Will Host Transphobic Activists and Academics on International Trans Day of Remembrance MSPs have organised an event in order to launch a “Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights,”...

It has been well documented, at this point, that the Booker Prize 2019 result took us all by surprise. Between them, Bernardine Evaristo (‘Girl, Woman, Other’) and Margaret Atwood (‘The...

Collaboration project with Rosalind Main and Daisy McConville As an Artist, fashion Model and Body Positivity Activist I work in all of my practices connecting the theme of Diversity, Women’s...

Just over a year after Carrie Gracie announced she would be resigning as China Editor for the BBC due to the disparities in pay between her and her male equivalents,...

We’ve all heard of Greta Thunberg, but how many indigenous activists and activists of colour can you name? On the back of Black History Month, our Environmental Editor Meg McGrath...

Black History Month reminds us to look back and recognise the revolutionary and gruelling endeavours of women of colour in reclaiming their rightful space within the feminist movement. But it...

Marsha P Johnson Bayard Rustin Audre Lorde Miss Major Simon Nkoli Black people have always been a part of the LGBT rights movement. The struggle for queer liberation has included...

As Halloween approaches and the sharp snap of Winter comes slinking in behind it, there is no better time for curling up in a duvet away from the chill. However,...