The enduring legacy of Tracy Chapman
As the Soviet Union was about to collapse, Gorbachev’s glasnost gave my mother Tracy Chapman. So too did she gift her to me, tucked in CD collections stacked high in…
2022 Musical Reflection
To tell the truth, I have struggled a bit to appreciate some of 2022’s album releases. The album that best summarises this sentiment, Taylor Swift’s Midnights album. It constitutes a…
The Student speaks to Vice-Principal Colm Harmon
Although having worked at the University of Edinburgh in his role as Vice-Principal Students since October 2019, many students have come to know Professor Harmon from the e-mail updates that…
Liberation on a House of Cards: Reflection of a Trans Woman in Academia
CW: Transphobia It is well known that the sciences have a problem with inclusivity. Women are not particularly welcome in engineering and even social science departments remain a hotbed of…
I thought myself a giant once
Horizons upon horizons They say they are never ending. I thought myself a giant once, Where I could grasp horizons the same way I did life’s supposedly endless opportunities. But…
Lemonade Think Bubble
It was another dull quarantine day until I sipped my glass of lemonade. April sun streamed through it and cast a bright pattern across the desk. Lounging about the house…
Reflecting on New Year’s Resolutions: Successes and Failures
The beginning of January 2019 – just as in 2018, 2017, 2016 and so on – was punctuated by friends and family all stating their New Year’s Resolutions and self-improvements…