The Student’s Isolation Series: an Introduction
Food has always been a focal point in my life. Until the age of fourteen, I lived in a lively household with my parents, brother, uncle, aunt, cousin, and grandmother.…
Exploring Expectations of Never Have I Ever for South Asian Representation
About a year ago, Mindy Kaling posted an open call for Indian-American teens on her Instagram to audition for her new Netflix show, titled Never Have I Ever. The liberation…
Too Hot to Handle is unbearably addictive and we are all too proud to admit it
Earlier this week a friend asked if I had watched Too Hot to Handle yet on Netflix, and I replied with an admittedly too eager “yes”. This began a conversation…
Spinning Out
Take Black Swan and I, Tonya, and put them into a series with your favourite stars from the dystopian novels you read when you were 14 and just realising how…
Another woman wants to go into journalism? Tell me something new
A few weeks ago I settled down in bed to a day of indulging myself to the best rom com films a feminist, who believes that self-empowerment and romantic comedies…
In conversation with Peter Brookes, illustrator for The Times
“And this is Peter’s office.” For a phrase said with such ease in passing it was easy to believe that I didn’t just walk past the creative hub of the…
Popping the bubble on Pollock privilege: A slight rant
We have all heard about the other side of this university that is Pollock. We know the mythical tales of the things they get up to from veteran friends who…
ASEF Capacity Building Training: An interview with Dr Edizon Fermin
Manvir Dobb talks to Dr Edizon Fermin, the Vice President of Academic Affairs at the National Teacher’s College in the Philippines, on the last day of the ASEF Capacity Building…