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JoJo Siwa & the Importance of Queer Representation in Children’s Media
It’s safe to say that ex Dance Moms star, teenager JoJo Siwa, has a fair few titles under her belt. Sold out arena tours. 12 million YouTube subscribers. Global merchandise collections. Time’s 2020 list of the 100 most influential people…in the world. And she recently opened up about her sexuality. With a massive following, particularly […]
A Feminist Re-Framing of Women’s Fascination with the ‘True Crime’ Genre
T/W: Very brief non-explicit references to assault, murder, victims There’s just something about true crime which fascinates us – is it the often gruesome details? The twisted minds of serial killers? Unsolved vanishings? Or perhaps that many popular stories are about people just like us, who just happened to be caught up in something intensely […]
Home, Home, Homesick
How would you define homesickness? Is it the feeling of missing your family or friends back where you came from? Is that home to you? Do you miss home often? What is it really? Homesickness can seem like an umbrella term for feelings related to home, nostalgia and missing someone/something. I don’t think I’ve ever […]
Off The Beaten Track: Torridon
Thus far in this travel series we have explored a fairly small segment of Scotland’s great outdoors. Whilst the Cairngorms (both north and south of the plateau) are considered to be some of Scotland’s wildest terrain – its geographical identity is shared with the Appalachian Mountains and the Alps – it is significantly less remote […]
Better Than Yesterday
In the madness of today’s tense socioeconomic and political environment, you might agree that it is necessary to escape one’s reality into the realms of another. Truly, this is a common and rather healthy practice: finding and exercising an outlet which allows a person to relax, contemplate that which escaped to the back of one’s […]
Getting the Leid
When I was in primary school for one week every year we were not only given permission to say naughty words, but were actively encouraged to stand up in front of the class and recite them from memory. Unfortunately, these weren’t the fun ones that the older kids used, instead they were the ones that […]
Whatever Happened to #BuildBackBetter?
It really wasn’t that long ago that we found ourselves unable to ignore the blatant failings of our economy. Some of us sat in our homes, heated and well-fed, only able to complain about slow WiFi or not being able to see our friends. And people did complain, a lot. That was until we saw […]
The Closure of the Barron: A Lament
The Barron Theatre, nestled just off North Street, is St Andrews’s black-box venue and one of only three entirely student-run theatres in the UK. As well as being home to the Mermaids (The University of St Andrews Performing Arts Fund), whose team of volunteers manage and care for the theatre, it facilitates countless other societies […]
Check Out Your Local Charity Shops
As climate change increases and we put more pressure on the earth’s natural resources we must look towards a sustainable future. Charity shops are a great way of being environmentally friendly, spending time browsing, and saving money. You can donate almost anything. All the clothes are steamed and if someone tries something on then that […]
A Gentle Reminder That You Don’t Have To Lose Weight This January
Welcome. You’ve made it to January 2021. It’s the new year. I wouldn’t go as far to say all is right with the world, actually that would be a complete lie. However, there is a sense of newness that comes with every month of January, despite if that newness is felt within the confines of […]