Virginia Woolf convincingly argues that a woman needs money and a room of her own if she is to compose fiction in her 1929 essay A Room of One’s Own. This text, displaying radical feminist themes, offered and continues to provide young female readers with hope in a brutally patriarchal world built by men for […]
If you’ve been on TikTok in the past week, you might have heard something about a scandal involving beauty influencer Mikayla Noguiera and some false eyelashes. Apparently, Mikayla used false eyelashes during an ad for the new L’Oréal Telescopic Lift mascara to her 14.4 million followers, much to the outrage of the internet, who claimed […]
On Saturday 22nd October, Angel Olsen and the Big Time Band came to Edinburgh for the penultimate concert on her UK/Ireland tour. After an acoustic opening set by Tomberlin, each member of the Big Time Band walks onstage adorning a different block colour ensemble and instrument; a pink violinist, a red drummer, and a green […]
★★★★ Olivia Rodrigo’s album ‘Sour’ is one of the best things to have happened to young people this year. A year that saw them locked into a cage of their own pubescent monkey-minds with “online” school and toxic social media as their main line of communication. Rodrigo is the youngest female singer to top the […]
Looking back at the new world of Theatre at The Student In the year that theatres around the world closed their doors, the stage has undoubtedly suffered. Luckily, the theatre community is not one that falls silent too easily. Adaptations, recordings, and even radio drama have come through in a massive way to save the […]
In a recent interview, Touché Amoré frontman Jeremy Bolm commented on his producer’s willingness to front the costs for the band’s most extensive recording process ever, on their fifth album, Lament: ‘I would say, “I don’t want to be taking advantage of you”and he would say, “You’re not, I’m living for this”. He simply didn’t […]
As we get back into the swing of university and a new plague of academic reading, our writers reminisce on the books they read this summer. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata by Evie Patel Through the dissonantly immersive love affair of a woman and her full-time job, Sayaka Murata presents an ode to the mundane familiarity […]
Anyone is entitled to their own opinion when it comes to taste, as is the case with art for example; everyone’s a critic ready to defend their specific viewpoint. But how far are we willing to let our pride and self-righteousness damage our friendships? Are we defined by our friendship dynamics rather than by our […]