CW: suicide It’s happened to the best of us. We’ve placed a pair of socks carefully into the washing machine drum, only to return an hour later and find that, mysteriously, only one sock has made it through the cycle. Well, this Anti-Bullying Week, it’s that remaining sock’s time to shine. On Monday, young people […]
Sport England’s much-lauded ‘This Girl Can’ campaign aims to get all women of all sizes, backgrounds, and abilities to exercise. Their most recent advertisement is pushing boundaries for women. The campaign is a herculean pushback against society’s aesthetic expectations of women, and Sport England has become a loud but very welcome voice in the conversation […]
Content warning: sexual harassment Anyone reading this most likely knows about the Edinburgh University Students’ Association anti-sexual harassment campaign, #NoExcuse. Posters are up everywhere, there are reminders about it and related events in bulk emails sent to all students and your peers will possibly have mentioned it in passing. In some ways, with the heavy […]
The hostility between citizens and property developers continue to increase while the public battle to preserve the community of Leith Walk. Campaigners led by the grassroots organisation Save Leith Walk have been working endlessly to prevent the destruction of the area’s heritage. The petition has received backing from many high-profile figures including Jeremy Corbyn and […]