CULTURE

Words: Alice McCloskey (she/her) I cling to my moments of hate; they’re a reminder of the forgiveness of a love that was once close, once

Words by: Sarah McCready (she/her) I also cannot imagine anywhere else I may find a gorilla mask sold with such a welcoming smile. The Barras

Words by: Gemma Sawyer (she/her) Reckoning with the past does not have to detract from a building’s fleeting external beauty, but it serves as a

Words: Niamh Gill (she/her) Through remembrance and celebration of queer craft, love is granted to archival fragments and writings. The spirit of lovers can eclipse

Words: Stella Small (she/her) Feminism is not the keepsake of a moment we no longer inhabit…It is easier to inherit the aesthetic of struggle than

Words: Emma Herrod Bason (she/her) And without me, what I have accumulated will return to the miscellaneous, only now they shall be misplaced. Perhaps, we

Words: Savannah Meriwether (she/her) We all have those scents. The ones that sever any mind-body connection and fling our thoughts far into the past –

Words: Ethan McGrory (he/him) I could see all the way to that desolate upland from which I was spawned, so distant and unremarkable compared to

Words: Ethan McGrory (he/him) These modern constructions do nothing in erasing the sores of subjugation or repairing what (in the Stones and in much else)

Words: Savannah Meriwether (she/her) The arches will bridge together moment after moment until one day, I’ll look around me and realise I’ve constructed a life

Words: Hanna Ibrahim (she/her) Cities may appear to evolve naturally, but their transformation is always guided by choices. Each planning decision determines which buildings endure

Words: Tess Hardy (she/her) Her words whispered to me and she had me: of course, she was GUM.  As I write this article, I think

Words by: Baptiste Peyron (he/him) The hardest part about moving away is that we leave parts of ourselves behind I remember the last dinner at

Words: Will Pellow (he/him) You are choosing to feature a person in a digital space that, while not physically tangible, is irrevocably tied to your

Words: Lily Fisher (she/her) ‘You can’t outrun yourself. Not your history, not your fears, not the parts of yourself you’re worried are wrong.’ ‘For me,

Words by: Urvi Goyal (she/her) I don’t ask memory to leave. I let it sit beside me, unclean and impure. There is something honest in

Words by: Maddie Nisbet (she/her) Living through the rise of Farage’s Reform UK and anti-immigrant propaganda, it is heartwarming that instead of diversity being a