Elinor Jones unpacks misogyny and more on this year’s Love Island, commenting on the toxic relationships that the show promotes.
Heteronormativity
Heteronormativity Whomst
Amy Butterworth, Online Lifestyle Editor, discusses heteronormativity in literature.
The issue with blood donor restrictions
Save a life. Give blood. Unless you’re HIV positive, you’ve had a tattoo or piercing in the past 4 months, you’re on antibiotics, or if you’re a sexually active gay man. Prior to 2011, gay men were completely banned from donating blood, being in the same category as those with Hepatitis B/C, those with syphilis, […]
Gender neutral parenting – right or wrong?
As I entered my fifth consecutive hour of procrastination today I sifted through several of the trending videos on YouTube. Instead of the usual cat-fodder however, this afternoon’s seductress came in the form of a 4-minute interview with a couple raising their two children gender neutrally. How lovely, I thought. It was only a few […]
Why I owe it all to: Women’s Magazines
The issue began that hungover day at the petrol station. Absent-mindedly munching on my lettuce sandwich (bought in a hungover moment of bewilderment), I was stopped dead in my tracks. ‘What?’ Grunted my male flatmate. In a state of outrage, all I could allow myself to do was point and squawk indignantly. ‘What?’ He repeated. […]