SU Election coverage – Dead Slate: all women elected for third consecutive year at Sussex
The results are in for this year’s Students’ Union election, which saw 30 candidates running to be the full-time elected representatives of the student body at Sussex. The results for…
Academic Armchair: Sexual Subjectivities within Neoliberalism
In this week’s edition of the Academic Armchair, we talked with former Sussex researcher and current graduate student in the school of Sociology Robyn Long about her article ‘Sexual Subjectivities…
Academic Armchair- iObjectify: self- and other-objectification on Grindr
The Badger Features Team interviewed Sussex’s Yasin Koc about his work on the psychological factors behind Grindr. He posits that use of the app is associated with physical objectification in…
Oscars 2018: how progressive are Hollywood’s most prestigious awards?
In light of the recently revealed list of the 2018 Oscar Nominations, Features Editor Devin Thomas explores the extent to which we can say that we are truly making progress…
It’s finally time to abolish the monarchy
Features Editor Devin Thomas explores the view that the time has arrived for the movement to abolish the British monarchy to become something more than a fun pub conversation for…
Academic Armchair: Vulva la resistance: Dublin’s sixth march for choice
In this week’s edition of the Academic Armchair we talked with Ben Kasstan, Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at Sussex, about a recent article written for Huffington Post, as well…
Academic Armchair: Queering Brexit
Seeking to increase analyses of how Brexit will affect lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, queer and other (LGBTIQ+) individuals, Dr Carmelo Danisi, Dr Moira Dustin and Professor Nuno Ferreira highlight…
King Nun: The Should-of-Been Headliners
King Nun and BLOXX opened for headliner INHEAVEN at The Haunt on the 18th in the last show on the UK leg of the top-billed band’s tour. And if we…
Academic Armchair: Brexit, Trump and Methodological Whiteness
In this week’s edition of the Academic Armchair we talked with Gurminder Bhambra, Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial studies, about her upcoming article “Brexit, Trump and Methodological Whitness: On the…
Academic Armchair: Between platonic love and internet pornography
Attempting to show readers how an “holistic approach” to matters of sexuality is a better one, Tanja Staehler and Alexander Kozin tackle most aspects of modern life in this article,…
REMOTE Review
I went into this performance with few expectations, but I did have one: I was certain I would experience interactive theatre. This exciting possibility was my only preconception due to…
The era of the UK’s political ambivalence is over
British politics is undergoing such intense flux that everyone, even those completely removed, has been forced to take notice. This election has been a kind of awakening – and a…
The Big Debate: It is selfish to focus disproportionately on terror attacks in the West
Agree Devin Thomas In a world of increased connectedness and supposed solidarity, the fact that terror attacks that occur closer to home are still so much more significant in our…
The Big Debate: Positive discrimination in employment is unfair
Agree Georgia Grace Undoubtedly we have a problem in this country with cisgender white men having greater employment opportunities than women and minorities. However, implementing positive discrimination is not the…
So left we’re right (but wrong)
Dear Badger, As ironic, tongue-in-cheek, edgily aesthetic right-wing vaporwave stickers are plastered around our campus, it’s time to address the deep, varied roots of the problem. It’s Trump. It’s Milo…
Results for SU election announced
The results are in for this year’s Students’ Union election, which saw 20 candidates standing to be the voice of the student body at Sussex. Turnout for the elections was…
There is no impartiality or accountability in modern news media
Every paper you glance at the front cover of, every article that’s shared on Facebook, every headline and every paragraph and every word is biased. Most sources of information no…
The Big Debate: Drug culture is a detriment to student life
Agree Rodnick Brugnara Every student at our University has had a night out completely ruined by drugs. Maybe not a dramatic overdose or a meth-fuelled altercation, no, but the number…
The Big Debate: The LGBTQ+ movement is now more about image than change
Agree Georgia Grace When I moved to Brighton last summer, one of the many things that excited me about my new home was the prospect of attending my first ever…
UK and EU heading for ‘barbed wire divorce’
Brexit will lead to a “barbed wire divorce” of the UK and EU, according to Sussex economists in a briefing published this month. The economists at the UK Trade Policy…