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Starlings in Quarantine: Eli Thayer
I stayed up late last night. That’s been a recurring theme over these last few months. It’s an easy habit to slip into at the moment, seeing as there’s nowhere to go, nobody to see, and little to do each day. As contact with the outside world falls further into memory, other notions of regularity […]
Starlings in Quarantine: Madeline Pennino
At the start of every new school year I worry that I am not ready for its challenges. I worry I won’t know how to accommodate a different teacher’s style, that I will be overwhelmed with work and unsure how to manage my stress. Every year I convince myself that I am ill-prepared to take […]
Finding a Place in Pride
On 24th August 2018, Cardiff held the biggest pride march in Wales and, for the first time, I was part of it. For many, including me, Pride is a powerful way of coming to terms with our identity, and while we can’t march this year, it still feels vital to express ourselves however we can. […]
Starlings in Quarantine: Mira Mansfield
While term was ongoing and university work was still taking up most of my time, I felt untouched by the pandemic. Though I read the news and regularly listened to the increasingly unhelpful Downing Street daily briefings, there was nothing tangible in my day-to-day life to suggest anything was different. To me, this was just […]
Wilderness Solo: An Experiment In Isolation
One Monday a few weeks ago, I spent my day doing nothing. I’m not referring to the ‘lazy day’ nothing, or the ‘unproductive work day’ nothing, or even the ‘day drunk’ nothing. I’m talking about the ‘nothing’ nothing. Mark O’Connell, a writer for The Guardian, calls this practice a ‘wilderness solo’. The soloist is someone […]
UK Pride: From Protest To Pink Washing?
Due to coronavirus, Pride parades across the UK which would usually take place in June or July have been cancelled or postponed indefinitely. This means that while we don’t have an excuse to bathe ourselves in glitter, we can reflect on the history of Pride in the UK and use this to make next year’s […]
Starlings in Quarantine: Anna Coopey
So, we’re all stuck in lockdown (and, unfortunately, it’s not Lindsay). There’s not much we can really do about it. Life has dramatically contracted into our own four walls with the occasional foray outside – tending to make you feel like you drew the short straw in The Walking Dead, searching for a couple of […]
Disjointed Memories and Lost Time
It is hard to understand the way memory works – we remember things that we’d preferred to have forgotten or forget things that we wanted to remember. We usually don’t tend to process, store, and recall all situations that confront us unless they hold substantial meaning or could be threatening to important goals. Often, we […]
Coming Out: Five Years On
I came out on the 11th of June 2015. On Instagram. Maybe not the platform I’d choose today, but I stand by it. It was a long time coming. I came out to a few friends the year before, in Year 10, when I was 14. Strangely I don’t actually remember who I told first, […]
Starlings in Quarantine: Jamie Rees
I am writing this from my tiny room in Peebles, in the Scottish Borders, after what could only be described as a rollercoaster of a day. It’s a weird phrase to associate with a time during which I have achieved next-to-nothing, but that’s the nature of the lockdown brain, I suppose. I began the day […]