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The referendum was an unfair ambush on students. Vote no.

When you send emails laying out why the referendum breaches EUSA’s regulations to the ‘neutral’ returning officer and receive a reply from the student President (the leader of the ‘Yes’ campaign) laying out why he thinks everything is fine, it is clear there’s something very wrong. There’s been a worrying lack of democracy all year […]

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Divestment Occupation: The University must act to avert environmental catastrophe

When I sat in Teviot debating hall three years ago as one of the students asking the students’ association to join the campaign to push the University to divest from fossil fuels and arms companies I never thought I’d be sitting in a management building three years later after continual refusals to divest. A couple […]

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We need to be open about sexual abuse; I know, I was raped

Content warning: this post deals with rape and sexual assault. I was raped. That is not a sentence I thought I would say out loud, and definitely not write for the whole world to read, but there you have it, I was raped. Recently, the reasons why I decided to become more involved in the feminist […]