CULTURE

Words: Lorcan Adams (he/him) TW: Drugs/Addiction If we ever want to defeat the scourge of drug addiction, we need to start by recognising it for

Words: Rachel Hua (she/her) New anxieties are introduced as quickly as new products, sustaining a cycle of consumption driven by panic rather than science. Want

Words: Rebekah McCrorie (she/her) is this raw, meat-focussed craze truly a way of cleansing the body of sinful contaminants, or is it merely the latest

Words by: Carmen Farrell (she/her) Women must know that how “pure” they are deemed by a heteropatriarchal society means nothing. The “impure” woman is a

Words by: Eilidh Somerville (she/her) Does my desire to curate and produce an image that my friends will find most flattering make me complicit in

Words by: Tom Cran (he/him) Going for a run does make you feel better about yourself. I’m sure a saffron tea does make you feel

Words: Max Woodward (they/them) There is an obsession with authority, and a complete rejection of submission. People everywhere are obsessed with the idea of imposing

Words: Lily Fisher (she/her) Is she suddenly the villain? Is she evil? No. But this has pushed me to look at the other person –

Words: Ipsita Misra (She/her) Swear words are one of those things that inextricably link us to our humanity, much the same as hunger, love, and

Words: Sophie Rowe (she/her) As writer Ellen Atlanta puts it, you’re: ‘not ugly, just poor.’ In recent years, there has been a strong movement towards

Words: Naf Ali (they/them) “Purist ideologies” frame women’s bodies as something to tolerate rather than clinically treat. “Medical Misogyny” is the term that explains the

Words: Savannah Meriwether (She/her) In a world increasingly hard to trust, what’s the harm in turning to a deck of cards – or to the

Words: Charley Carter (they/them) The importance of queer art as a celebration of queer love, specifically in the Middle East, which is so often sidelined