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Nothing like the Sun #3 - Love is the Anchor
Drawing by Ravie Tofolo The other day, my friend sent me a picture of a lily she saw while walking past a florist’s shop. She thought it...
Vaishnavi Reddy
Nov 14, 20233 min read


Nothing like the Sun #2 - An Ode to Bracelet Clasps and Independence
Photo by Godisable Jacob via Pexels “Would you like me to clasp it for you?” The lady at Tiffany’s had asked me gently after witnessing...
Trisha Gupta
Nov 7, 20233 min read


Nothing like the Sun #1 - On Family and No's
Drawing by Diana Vorona I saw, on the tube, a girl scratching the itch from her Burberry scarf at the nape of her neck and I thought to...
Trisha Gupta
Oct 31, 20233 min read


Nothing Like the Sun - The Mundane Love Column
'Temple of Friendship, Pavlovsk, near Saint Petersburg', by Now Idonoa On all fours with a 5-pound toilet cleaner that came 3 weeks late...
Trisha Gupta
Oct 23, 20237 min read


No, It's Not Ghosting - The Strand's Helpful Guide To Social Media Messaging
Photo by Jason Howie via Flickr (licensed under CC BY 2.0) Have you ever heard of the term ghosting? If you haven’t, you are lucky...
Mina Yasar
Oct 8, 20234 min read


Medical or Medieval: The Echoes of Medicalised Hysteria in Contemporary Law
Photo by Steve Eason via OpenVerse (licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) On June the 17th, my journey from Embankment tube station to Strand...
Molly Baker-Brown
Aug 15, 20236 min read


Through the Looking Glass: The Reflection of Women in a Pornographic World
Photo by Rob Corder via Flickr (licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) "I think we're about to have the biggest show of the summer"...
Ellie Dempster
Jun 28, 20235 min read


London Literature Festival 2021: Mieko Kawakami's Heaven
Centred on the expansive theme of friendship, this year’s London Literature Festival inaugurated Japanese writer’s Mieko Kawakami’s novel...
Isabela Palancean
Feb 9, 20223 min read


Sexpressive #2 The School of Sex or: Why We Need to Revolutionise Sex Ed
How did you learn about sex? Probably at school to some extent, from parents, books or some online posts, through friends and maybe even...
Uma Walgama
Mar 31, 20214 min read


Introducing Sexpressive: our new bi-monthly sex-ed column
Sex Education for many of us has been a horrible experience: dominated by heteronormativity, conservative teachers and the suppression of...
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