Charlotte Grimwade An exploration of queerness and cultural identity, Mary Jean Chan’s most well-known poetry collection, Flèche, is definitely worth reading. In particular, the collection powerfully contends with Chan’s relationship with their mother, creating poems […]
Bersun Kılınç “Today’s treasure may be tomorrow’s trash” Gizem Karakaş, the creator of the audio-visual art ‘ATTENTION! ATTENTION!’, provides an understanding of the dips and troughs of being an artist in the 21st century by cynically […]
By Georgia McInnes “I understood, without being able to articulate it, that language had a power to change me completely with the utterance of one word”. The anti-protest bill may have limited our freedom, but […]
By Ruby Edgeley Mankind has been caught.Sunk,Swarming inside the net cast around the world and over our eyes,As the underwater war concedes.Blinded and baited by the image of a little red boat chugging along,Manned by […]
Studio Ghibli’s Oscar-winning film Spirited Away will take the stage in Tokyo in 2022. Although this production has full artistic support from Ghibli’s creator Hayao Miyazaki and producer Toshio Suzuki, does the theatre risk diluting […]
Artists throughout history have created and given away masterpieces in exchange for unpayable bills: think Vincent Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise or the Florence Futurists at Le Giubbe Rosse. Ludwig Bemelmans is arguably part of a similar exchange, […]
By Ruby Edgeley If she could see herself through my eyes she would see,A woman filled with silenced intelligence, And water thoughts that carry the world’s oceans in their depths.Thoughts that could change her world and […]
‘Definism’ portrays various differences in human nature, from life’s everyday dramas to humankind’s quest to the under-standing self. “My artworks transport viewers from the doldrums of their daily reality to a visual interpretation of another […]
By Carmina Budworth I write poetry about my experiences with bipolar and love. This is a piece on body dysmorphia. My mind has always been split,At times, my gifts bore down, guilty burdensI did not […]
As LGBTQ+ history month draws to a close, I have been reflecting on my favourite stories that have personally taught me a lot about queer issues and queer history. From old to modern, funny to […]