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Brown Girls Do It Too (P. Yannamani)
By Pranathi Yannamani Picture: BBC Brown Girls Do It Too is a podcast on BBC sounds featuring two South Asian women, Rubina Pabani and...
Mar 20, 20214 min read
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...
Feb 8, 202111 min read
'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 21, 20209 min read
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...
Dec 6, 20206 min read
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 23, 20206 min read
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...
Nov 8, 20203 min read
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...
Oct 11, 20208 min read
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...
Sep 13, 20209 min read
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...
Aug 9, 20208 min read
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 23, 20205 min read
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 6, 20203 min read
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...
Jul 4, 20206 min read
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...
May 25, 20202 min read
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