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That Sydney Sweeney Campaign: American Eagle’s Marketing Misfire
Illustrations by Grace McKenna ‘Sydney Sweeney has great jeans/genes.’ It’s a tagline that’s ricocheted across social media, sparking...
Keya Desai
Aug 253 min read


Scarves, Spirituality and Stereotypes: The Double Standard of South Asia in the Western Imagination
Illustrations by Grace McKenna With Coachella in April and the Met Gala in May, for the last few months my social media has been flooded...
Srishti Ramakrishnan
May 225 min read


uninformed, ununinformed responses, November 5
Illustrations by Grace McKenna Dip your fingers in my scalp. Touch the warm patches the sun left behind. Sully the straight division,...
Ruth Ginsburg Hix
May 11 min read


Leopold III
Illustrations by Grace McKenna I crave some sort of ghostly hereafter, History is a myth, after all. My hands swallowed and unswallowed...
Amelia More
Apr 252 min read


Tackling Misogyny in Sports: Let’s Talk about Women’s Rugby
Illustration by Grace McKenna When I arrived at Edinburgh’s Hive stadium for my first Women’s Six Nations match, I couldn’t help but...
Molly Barrow
Apr 144 min read
Gregg Wallace Faces the Heat: MasterChef Star’s Recipe for Public Image Ruin
When the annual calendar event occurs, and another high-profile, well-loved and respected male television personality wakes up to...
Emilia Lauder
Feb 163 min read


The Scots, the Snobs, and the Edinburgh University Complex
There is a glaring eye all Scottish university students know well. When an outsider makes a mocking comment about our nationality, a...
Emilia Lauder
Feb 163 min read


The Paradox of "Abroad": Indians in Edinburgh's Expanding Cultural Bubble
Illustration by Devanshi (@devanshidg) When I first set foot in Edinburgh as an Indian graduate student, I was filled with excitement and...
Vidisha Gupta
Feb 37 min read
La Guajira: Abundant Energy, Scarce Water
La Guajira — a Colombian peninsula bordering Venezuela — is home to one of the largest open coal mines in the world. This area was first...
Nicolle Delgado
Dec 19, 20243 min read


The Blame Game Begins: Yung Filly’s Sexual Assault Case
A couple of nights ago, I was doing some late-night scrolling on TikTok – desperately avoiding my essay deadlines– only to see a video...
Rosie Higgins
Dec 11, 20244 min read
“I was handing out Oreos to children while forces were killing 12 people in the same area”: life as a volunteer in the Venezuelan refugee crisis.
Ria Threadgold, an Edinburgh Law student, speaks of an all encompassing sense of guilt and nihilism when she left the Venezuelan refugee...
Becca Johns
Dec 8, 20244 min read


Pouring change: brands' impact on sustainable food consumption
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq ‘If you want to change the world, change your milk’ – Plenish Drinks In today’s climate-conscious...
Lara Engel
Apr 6, 20244 min read


(Hyper)reality TV: the Future of Reality Television in the Social Media Age
‘Receipts! Proof! Timelines! Screenshots!’ Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq It was the reckoning heard around the world. The recent finale...
Sylvie Evans
Mar 1, 20244 min read


The ‘Rotting Girl’ Aesthetic: Madeline Argy and Pretty Privilege
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq ‘Clean Girl Aesthetic’ seems to have taken the Western world by storm. Everywhere I turn there’s a girl...
Ellie Valentine
Feb 2, 20245 min read


Is this the end of veganism?
In August the news broke that Beyond Meat, the company behind the Beyond Burger, reported a 30% loss in sales in the second quarter of...
Issy Clarke
Oct 8, 20234 min read


The guy doesn’t get the girl: The importance of female friendships in film and literature
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq From children’s fairy tales where the heroine marries the prince, to Hollywood films where the ‘guy gets...
Sorcha Tipping
Sep 19, 20233 min read


Fanning the flames of climate doomism: Reigniting hope through the media
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq ‘Devastating Wildfires’, 'Extreme Temperatures', 'Rising Tides of Doom' — the media is adopting an...
Lara Engel
Sep 7, 20233 min read


Ultra-fast fashion: where others fail, Shein succeeds
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq In recent months fast fashion giant ASOS has recorded unprecedented losses. Leading up to February, sales...
Tasha Stewart
Aug 28, 20234 min read


Barbie: How the patriarchy’s mascot became a feminist icon
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Barbie was never meant to be a feminist. For decades, Barbie dolls have young girls’ first encounters...
Gem Kirwan
Aug 28, 20234 min read


Huw Edwards and the Problems of a Modern-Day Scandal
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Early July saw Huw Edwards become the latest presenter to face scrutiny over claims that he paid a...
Nelly Laycock
Aug 28, 20234 min read
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