J January is always a month that is stressful for students. You soon realise that you did absolutely no work over Christmas and that you have numerous imminent essays and exams that make up an unnervingly large proportion of your degree. As well as that, there are housing arrangements to sort out for the next […]
The Pen from Penryn: Asexuality, the Invisible Orientation
This year, Asexual Awareness Week is 23-30th October, which for many Exeter University students happens to be Reading week, a week dedicated to Netflix, sleep and the essays that we’ve been putting off all term. For some people though, it’s a week of endless campaigning, a week of visibility and representation for an often overlooked […]
The Pen from Penryn: The importance of talking about abortion
R ecently, women in Poland went on strike to protest against the threat of a misogynistic change in law – a proposal for a total ban on abortions. In what became known as ‘Black Monday’, thousands of female citizens fearlessly took to the streets in Warsaw to demonstrate against the unjust proposition. Thankfully, the pro-choice […]
The Pen from Penryn: Women In Power
Traditionally the discussion of gender and power has been fairly limited – patriarchy has been at the centre of global politics for over two thousand years. Fortunately though, it appears that this male-dominated sphere is finally beginning to change: Theresa May, Nicola Sturgeon, Angela Merkel, Hilary Clinton. In the west, women are winning the votes. […]
The Pen from Penryn: The Importance of Ghostbusters
Exeter’s Streatham campus has a university cinema. When looking, rather enviously, at the listings for this upcoming term, I was pleasantly surprised to find that there was such a good range of options. Although Captain America: Civil War passes dubiously, Finding Dory and The Nice Guys all pass the Bechdel Test, which just about makes […]