Brown Girls Do It Too (P. Yannamani)
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By Pranathi Yannamani Picture: BBC Brown Girls Do It Too is a podcast on BBC sounds featuring two South Asian women, Rubina Pabani and...
- Feb 8, 2021
- 11 min
Soul: Pixar Misses its Mark (L. Johnson)
By Lydia Johnson The latest release from Disney in their Pixar Originals class had me worried - had I become too cynical in my old age to...
- Dec 21, 2020
- 9 min
'I May Destroy You' - A story of questions (L. Johnson, T. Shaw)
Artwork by James Cowen I May Destroy You hit our screens earlier this year on both HBO and BBC amidst the abyss that was early lockdown...
- Dec 6, 2020
- 6 min
It’s Rape, not Romance: The Insidious Anti-Feminisms of Fairy Tales (A. Meghji)
By Alexandra Meghji It is not at all original to claim that popular fairy tales and their film adaptations participate in the maintenance...
- Nov 23, 2020
- 6 min
We've been here before (T. Shaw)
By Tim Shaw A supposed quote from a sassy teenager at the beginning of the UK Covid-19 crisis: “Oh God, I can’t believe I’m living...
- Nov 8, 2020
- 3 min
Stormzy: A voice for change (J. Bate)
By Jim Bate (Photo: hypebeast.com) Stormzy is a grime artist of the twenty first century and is producing music that remains prevalent in...
- Oct 11, 2020
- 8 min
Star Wars - It's fear, not hope, that rules this galaxy (L. Johnson)
By Lydia Johnson A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, what began with one space opera in 1977 quickly grew into a media empire...
- Sep 13, 2020
- 9 min
50 Shades: It's not all about the sex (L. Johnson)
By Lydia Johnson (Photo: http://brandsandfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/50ShadesOfGrey_Trilogy.jpg) Okay…so hear me out… The...
- Aug 9, 2020
- 8 min
Normal People: The fast track to depression (L. Johnson)
By Lydia Johnson The Normal People series hit hard, and as one of the last dramas to air before lockdown people were more than ready to...
- Jul 23, 2020
- 5 min
La Salamandra- A story closer to home than it seems (K. Canaway)
By Kyoko Canaway People often try and divide literature into two distinct categories: the books you read to relax and step out of the...
- Jul 6, 2020
- 3 min
Was Beethoven Black? (K. Canaway)
Beethoven was black.
Or so it has periodically been claimed since as early as 1915 (1). Over the course of the past century...
- Jul 4, 2020
- 6 min
Deary Deary Me! Or just how vile were the Victorians? (J. Plowright)
By John Plowright Forget about the reform of History curricula for a moment. If you really want to understand and influence the...
- May 25, 2020
- 2 min
How to get woke from the comfort of your own home: my top 5 Netflix shows (P. Yannamani)
By Pranathi Yannamani (Photo: Atsushi Nishijima / Netflix) You don’t have to break lockdown rules to get more cultured. If your current...
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