Questions Without Answers Each month, Olivia Scher chooses a personal question to ask herself, discussing her ideas, thoughts and feelings about life and the world around us. In exploring a...

NB: I use the word ‘queer’ throughout this essay to describe myself and the LGBT+ community; this is the label I’ve chosen for me and I like it. “I didn’t...

Name, Pronouns, Role: Trisha Mendiratta (she/her), Politics Editor Fun Fact: I grew up doing artistic roller skating every day after school, and I’d like to think I can still do...

Name, pronouns and role: Izzy Hodgson (she/her) Poetry editor Fun fact: I am a mudlarker, which essentially involves me scrabbling on the banks on the river Thames for Roman pottery...

Name, Pronouns and Role: Robyn Barclay (she/her), Communications Officer Fun Fact: My favourite film (completely un-ironically) is The Lego Batman Movie. What does intersectional feminism mean to you? For me,...

Name, pronouns, role: Peggy Mitchell (she/her), Graphic Designer Fun Fact:  When I was younger, I would pretend that I had unicorns run alongside me while in the car. I would...

Content warning: cyberbullying, racism, violence against women I was eighteen and fresh out of high school. University meant the freedom of discussing what I wanted, when I wanted, and exposure...

Maybe I am getting something wrong, maybe I am ignorant to a deeper relationship between the viewer’s interpretation and the art alone. But I like to hear the artist’s voice...

Name, pronouns and role: Lucia (she/her), Graphic Designer Fun fact: A fun fact about me is that I have always been obsessed with fonts- once when I was 11, I...

Questions Without Answers Each month, Olivia Scher chooses a personal question to ask herself, discussing her ideas, thoughts and feelings about life and the world around us. In exploring a...

This is a reality made possible by virtue of living in a wealthy country. The richest countries on the global stage, the UK included, have secured 53% of the most...

Behind me is the relative security of academia, where each deadline is a fixed goal on a calendar, marred by procrastination and the urgent need to move forward. Ahead of...

CW: eating disorders, disordered eating behaviours, body image, gender dysphoria I’m sure by now that most people will have at least heard of the gender identities that are ‘non-binary’, and...

Imagine if you were told that by a judge. Psychiatric disposals – any sentence which involves treatment for a mental health problem, from court-ordered therapy to hospital confinement – are...

Questions Without Answers Each month, Olivia Scher chooses a personal question to ask herself, discussing her ideas, thoughts and feelings about life and the world around us. In exploring a...