“The most important thing is to have a strong support network as you come out” BY ELA ERTAN, IMAGE BY DANIEL JAMES In celebration of National Coming Out Day, I recently asked five LGBTQI University students about their coming-out stories. Here is what they shared: “People kept thinking it’s just a phase” E.M, 20, She/Her [….]
Lily Sheldon offers advice to first years starting uni BY LILY SHELDON, IMAGE BY ZEN CHUNG So after a year of being told to “drink up fresher” and a summer of being the first year, it’s finally time for me to accept my new and updated title as the wise second year. In first year, [….]
Let’s tear them down BY ELLA DEVEREUX, IMAGE BY SHVETS PRODUCTION Bisexuality is not one size fits all, and that diversity should be celebrated. As it is Bisexual Awareness week, we wanted to tackle some of the myths about bisexual people which, unfortunately, still seem to be circulating in 2021. Let’s tear them down. “Bisexual [….]
“Girl in Red’s set made it clear how important that representation is, and there’s no reason why we can’t have more of it” BY CAITLIN CHATTERTON Want to know if somebody likes women? Just ask them if they listen to Girl in Red. Or, you could have rocked up to Reading’s Festival Republic tent on [….]
“It wasn’t that having a chest was the be-all and end-all. Boobs were simply milestones – markers of my journey” BY LISA BOND Boobs are a thing. Two things in fact: conceptual and actual. If Plato had had boobs or been interested in them (which it seems he was not), he would have discussed how [….]
“The next time someone asks me how I ended up writing books, this is what I’m going to tell them: I write the books I wish 17-year-old me had found after that episode of Brookside” WORDS TANYA BYRNE, IMAGE MAYA ZIYU People often ask me how I ended up writing books. The truth is, I [….]
Attending your first Pride is an important rite of passage which Covid has postponed for Ella Deregowska BY ELLA DEREGOWSKA The pandemic has taken away a lot of what we love most. For me, the postponement of Pride parades and closure of gay bars and clubs definitely hit the hardest. And what’s worst is that [….]
