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Words by: Beatrice Hon-Jacobs (She/her) In the hellscape of late-stage capitalism, where any critique or rebellion is absorbed, neatly packaged, and sold back to you,

Words: Stella Small (she/her) These souvenirs – the annotations, the essay collections, the spines facing outwards – all become proof not of the experience, but

Words: Alexander Bradley (he/they) CW: Ableism / Racism / Discrimination When broadcasters censor ‘Free Palestine,’ but do not censor involuntary tics containing racial slurs, who

Words: Rebekah McCrorie (she/her) Creative outlets have been transferred to the internet: play has become pixelated. Nowadays, it’s no secret that parents are sedating their

Words: Hanna Ibrahim (she/her) In its steadiness, the curling stone becomes a souvenir of another pace, one the world is beginning to forget how to

Nina Atkinson (she/her) Understanding a moral system is not the same as excusing it, but in refusing to understand it, we give up any chance

Words: Ava Mutter (She/Her) TW: Abuse / Sexual Assault When no amount of filler can protect you from the truth, the pursuit of “pure” reality

Words: Kinga Kusyk (she/her) Purity, in the cultural sense, always has a hierarchy: clean bodies over dirty ones; disciplined citizens over undisciplined ones; ‘good’ drinkers

Words: Pearl Kelly (She/Her) Female celibacy is on the rise; not for the sake of preserving purity but for refusing to have sex on anything

Words: Elliot Bourke (he/him) Pornography now sits at a wild impasse: opposed to societal ideals on “purity”, yet rampantly more exposed than ever. Has porn,

Words: Brooke Fraser (she/her) Gender roles and harmful stereotypes lurk beneath the surface of our perceived progressiveness, and famous women become a kind of cultural

Words: Zara Khan (she/her) There’s a craving for a nostalgic past that doesn’t exist now, and didn’t serve us in any capacity back then. Modern-day

Words: Tess Hardy (she/her) CW: Violence / Missing Persons ‘Mothers will always be the light of hope in times of darkness, and the helping hand

Words: Holly Sampson (she/her) CW: Sexual harassment / Abuse Women, non-binary, and queer artists are already taking matters into their own hands, but who will

Words: Parker Trainor (He/Him) True progress lies in realising that the richness of Scottish academia depends not on neutralising our voices, but weaving them together.

Words: Ayla Bushell (she/they) CW: discrimination, slavery. In a world increasingly threatened by gross infringements on human rights, it is more vital than ever to

Words: Iona McIntosh (she/her) Salmon delicately pulls the viewer through the space, the invisible thread hanging between each piece of memorabilia, evoking transcendent human emotions