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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 29, 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...


Uncovering the abundance of clitoris ignorance: A Conversation with Alumna and Author Sarah Chadwick
The other end of the world is only a second away when I open up Zoom and call Sarah. After a short confusion – with all the online calls,...
Malina Aniol
Mar 12, 20213 min read


Slow and Steady
Image: Fia @fias.galeria Intimacy is a funny one. Two people could be sat opposite each other, having what would typically pass as an...
Isabela Palancean
Jan 30, 20213 min read


Queer Choral Communities
Image credit: Pippa Sterk In September 2018, I sat on a train for an hour and a half. At the time, I thought that I was making the...
Pippa Sterk
Nov 12, 20203 min read


An Enquiry into Friendship
When Henry David Thoreau wrote, ‘the language of friendship is not words, but meanings’, I called pretentious bullsh*t. Literature of all...

Ketki Mahabaleshwarkar
Jul 20, 20204 min read


PhiMag: The Sex Issue – A Review
Featuring art, poetry and essays, this issue of PhiMag gives an intimate and creative exploration of a variety of themes related to sex,...
Mitra Karanjkar
Mar 19, 20202 min read
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