Image and Identity – Music, My Family and Me
Words by Dylan Bryant Music fascinates me. How does an accumulation of dots on a page have the power to bring total strangers together and move someone to tears? Obviously,…
Edie Bea Tattoos
Words by Edie Bea I’m a resident tattoo artist in Stars and Moon Tattoo – Hove. I have illustrated all my life and studied at art university for four years.…
Poetry: An ally by Leah Hardcastle
I touch my skin and shudder away.How can my own body disgust me?The hairs that ripple under my touch encourages bile to rise in my throat.And yet she.Her fingertips reach…
Diana the Musical: Keeping it Camp, not Classy
Words by Ali Arief If I’m perfectly honest I think this was the most bizarre musical I have ever watched. Readers may recall my scathing judgement explicitly targeted at this…
Interview: Mark Strong
Words by Issy Anthony Mark Strong is an English actor and producer. He has appeared in films such as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Kingsman, Kickass and Grimsby, and television series…
Book review: 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in this Strange World – Elif Shafak
Words by Paige Braithwaite, Staff Writer TW: Sexual assault and abuse ‘10 minutes and 38 Seconds in this Strange World’(2019), by British-Turkish author Elif Shafak is an absorbing and poignant…
What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape: Review
Words by Alice Stevens Image: Garry Knight TW: Rape “Rape is a choice. Rapists choose to rape… We just don’t want to think about the uncomfortable truth that a rapist…
Michael Kiwanuka, Love & Hate – An album that made me question my own feelings about music
By Dylan Bryant, Music Editor In the past, I’ve always thought of music as something that each listener, composer or artist, can attach personal meaning to. Perhaps not as a…
The White Picket Purgatory of the Dream Suburbia
Words by Molly Openshaw, Arts Print Editor I recently finished watching season three of You on Netflix. For those of you living under a rock, this series follows Joe Goldberg…
Privilege, racism, and social satire in Kiley Reid’s Such A Fun Age (2019)
Words by Saskia May, Books Editor Kiley Reid’s debut novel, Such a Fun Age (2019) is an observant, entertaining, and current examination of privilege and racism in the US. Reid…
Maternal Ambivalence in Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child
Raising fascinating and current questions around motherhood and female identity, Lessing’s The Fifth Child, with its spectre of the ambivalent mother, is an immersive look into the uncanny Words by…
On Concrete Island – Squid at Concord 2
By Tom Baker and Kelsey Raney London-based art-rock five-piece Squid returned home to Brighton in September and brought with them a stunning performance at Concord 2. After forming in 2015,…
Green Knight Review
Words by Ethan Lamb Given looming fears over climate change, when we talk about ‘Nature’ in a modern-day context, we often frame it as a fragile being under attack, and…
Book Review: The Vanishing Half
Words by Saskia May, Books Editor TW: Racism and violence The New York Times #1 bestseller, The Vanishing Half (2020), is a story with a nonlinear narrative that traverses decades,…
Trans Rights are Human Rights
Words by Alice Stevens and Molly Openshaw TW: Transphobia As we start to see transgender people and other minorities being targeted for their sexuality and gender identity, it is important…
She’s ‘One In A Million’: The Return of The RnB Princess
Words by Emily Hyatt, Staff Writer On August 5th, 2021, Blackground Records announced that Aaliyah Haughton’s complete discography would be available for streaming. After twenty plus years of agony, fans…
Gender-based violence is a silenced epidemic
Words by Alice Stevens, Arts Online Editor “Text me when you get home x. ” This common procedure carried out by most women reflects a darker truth within our society…