Anonymous Interview: Sexual Assault

TW: Sexual assault Do you think your sexual assault had an impact on your relationships? Definitely! I knew I wanted to be intimate with someone again, but I saw no possible way of actually doing that. Navigating the dating scene is difficult enough, so navigating that whilst also coping with my trauma was a tough

My Isolation Diary

Day 1 – skipped a shower because I’m not going out – that means I don’t need one, right? Day 2 – wrong. I took a shower. Smashed out loads of Duolingo lessons, read some of my book (More Than a Woman by Caitlin Moran, I’d highly recommend), cleaned the bathroom, did a 10 minute

#44 How To Make Your Uni House Your Home

Now that we’re all back in the university life, let’s talk student houses. Or more specifically, mine. Our charming landlord has so far: Provided 2 kitchen chairs, despite this being a 6 person house Painted the corridor walls…also, part of the floor where he spilt the paint ‘Fixed’ our washing machine by turning it off

#43 How to Jump Out of a Plane (!!)

Back in April, I was sat in my room, bored out my mind, with no idea when this lockdown would end. Everyone has their own coping mechanisms…mine was to seek the ultimate adrenaline rush: a skydive. This way, I had something to look forward to and I was on my way to ticking something off

#42 Tips on Planning Your Gap Yah

After cooking 23 different variations of pasta and stir fry, skipping 9am lectures twice a week, getting f*cked over by several student landlords, signing up to 5 different societies that I never attended and puking up cheap Aldi Rosé every now and again, I’ve found myself rather ill-prepared for being an Adult. Of course I

#41 A Day in the Life of a Care Worker

It’s 5:30 AM. For a lot of people, this is a very normal time to have to wake up for work. Not me though. The way I see it, five thirty in the morning is quite literally the middle of the night. I snooze my alarm a good three or four times, pushing myself for

#40 Men Are(n’t) Trash

TW: rape and sexual assault In the last 100 years, the feminist movement has come a long way. In 2020, women are allowed to vote, male rape victims are beginning to be taken more seriously, and the gender pay gap is slowly closing. Despite this, only last month, the Facebook confessions page ‘Brumfess’, used mostly

#39 Period Packaging: The Damaging Taboo

The New Zealand supermarket chain, Countdown, has become the first to explicitly use the word ‘period’, in their packaging for menstrual products, such as tampons, menstrual cups and pads. Usually, in the U.K. and across the rest of the world, we see phrases such as ‘feminine hygiene’, noticeably avoiding the whole reason behind why these

#38 Hashtag BeKind

TW: suicide This post has been sat in my drafts for quite some time now. Why? Because I kept putting off actually posting it – it has some sensitive issues, mixed in with my political views. I knew I felt some form of anger, but when I tried to write it all down in my

#37 Hungry For A Meal OUT

Enjoy consuming (HAHA I’m awful) this rewrite of my newspaper article, concerning food and eating, of course. As chefs, waiters and managers prepared to reopen their restaurant doors, there was an intense hunger in the air for that restaurant experience we’ve all been craving since the 23rd of March – the start of the lockdown.