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‘Neither and Both’: the Gender-Queer Body in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Image by Carole Radiate through Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Gender-queer bodies, while seeming like a hot topic among politicians in recent...
Mia Jones
Oct 31, 20234 min read


Birdsong
Photo by Grigoriy on Pexels When the birds in the trees sang in the morning I decided to leave, I listened. Their singing, I’ve heard,...
Ellie Dempster
Oct 30, 20234 min read


Decisions, Decisions: Baldur’s Gate 3’s common option dilemma
BG3 sees players gravitating towards conventional character choices, reflecting the delicate balance between immersion and identification.
Karan Nimsons
Oct 29, 20233 min read


At Frieze London, art imitates life
★★★☆☆ Sadie Coles, Frieze London 2023. Courtesy of Linda Nylind/Frieze. © All Rights Reserved. You’ve heard of the ‘hemline index’, which...
Harry Anstey-Walsh
Oct 21, 20233 min read


The Artist Presents… Marina Abramović at the Royal Academy
Marina Abramovic, The Current, 2017. Video; 1 hour 35 mins. Courtesy of the Marina Abramovic Archives. © Marina Abramovic. For the...
K A Thickett
Oct 12, 20236 min read


(Un)knowing Londoners
Image by Ilya Grigorik (licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) I lay awake last night listening to the incessant thumping and bed-squeaking of...
Victoria Taylor
Oct 11, 20234 min read


Judging Sylvia By Her Cover
It was a Wednesday afternoon. My eyes had grown tired of Matisse’s representations of fertility in ‘la blouse romaine.’ Nor was I...
Cecilia Gerber
Oct 11, 20238 min read


Artistry and Selfhood at Edinburgh Fringe Festival
There is a tradition on the last night of every Edinburgh Fringe Festival in which anyone brave, stupid, or drunk enough will hike up Arthur
Noelle C. Sacher
Oct 9, 20235 min read


Why The Barbie Movie Fails To Offer A Revolutionary Take on Feminism In The 21st Century
I can’t deny that I loved the Barbie movie. From Ryan Gosling’s hilarious performance (I cannot get ‘I’m Just Ken’ out of my head) to...
Faye Elder
Aug 22, 20237 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
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