Let’s stop ignoring the I in LGBTQIA+
Words by Olly DeHerrera, Print Production Editor Intersexuality is the condition in which an individual possesses biological characteristics which are neither typically, or wholly, male or female. Said characteristics can…
MP suspended after “wholly inappropriate” Holocaust comparison
Words by Olly DeHerrera, Print Production Editor Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen of North West Leicestershire has been suspended as an MP after a tweet comparing the COVID-19 vaccination program to…
Life after the Holocaust: The Displaced Persons camps.
Words by Olly DeHerrera, Print Production Editor “And I – where will I go? Where shall I seek my home? Where shall I find my family and relatives? I have…
A Teary Goodbye to the Bendy Buses
Words by Olly DeHerrera, Print Editor On Monday the 7th of November, the Brighton and Hove Bus Company’s Mercedes Citaro fleet, better known as the ‘bendy buses’, made its final…
Sussex Urges Students to Know the Symptoms of Meningitis After Tragic Student Death.
Words by Olly DeHerrera, Print Production Editor Last week, the University of Sussex shared the tragic news that a student has passed away as a result of a meningococcal meningitis…
Ordinary Victims: Ordinary Heroes
At 5am on a temperate August morning, 20 young people from across the UK gathered in Heathrow airport, armed with notepads and suncream and bound for a 10-day intensive study…
What’s up with that little blue house in library square?
Olly DeHerrera If you’ve been on campus for many years now, you’ll recognise the little blue house as a yearly feature in the early autumn landscape of library square. The…
Interrogating “culture”
Words by Olly DeHerrera, Features Editor When I explain that my primary interest is in the study of “culture”, it is assumed that I situate myself among a group of…
In revered memory of Tȟašúŋke Witkó [Crazy Horse]
The image of the proud Native warrior, adorned in a cascade of feathers and decorated with materials drawn from the landscape, symbolises the popular Indiegous contribution to the ‘Americana’. It…
Alopecia and me, losing my hair as a student
Hair has quite a distinct place in popular conscious- and no time does that feel more apparent than when you begin to lose yours. Hair, and indeed where it is,…
“Red Nation Shall Rise Again”
In 1492, Arawak, Taino, and Lucayan tribes of the Caribbean discovered Christopher Columbus on their shoreline. Columbus had been sponsored by Spanish Catholic monarchs to investigate potential new routes to…
New Science, Old Racisms
Features Print Editor, Olly DeHerrera, explores the dangerous constraints of science on culture The rise in popularity of home ‘DNA kits’ has shifted the way in which we understand ourselves,…
To Kill a Legacy
I didn’t like Harper Lee’s To kill a Mockingbird. As an amateur literature fanatic, I had to find myself avoiding mention of the book in literary conversation and wondering if…
‘Entertainment Value’: The Twitch leak and content creators
Photo Credit: Dennis Yang – Flickr What financial value would you put on your weekly entertainment? Valuing that entertainment is easier when you pay a Netflix subscription, but what about…
In Reflective Memory Of My Autistic Kin – Olly Stephens
Features Editor, Olly DeHerrera, reflects on a culture of autism-intolerant violence. Olly Stephens was born at 9pm on the 1st of November 2007; at the age of 13, his murder…
Stolen Masterpieces and Where to Find Them
Art theft plays a much more prominent role in the making of art history than some security guards may be willing to admit. Publicity around the two-year hunt for the…
The last Jew in Afghanistan
Words By Olly DeHerrera The mid-August fall of Afghanistan to Taliban control has prompted concern for the wellbeing of the man popularly dubbed ‘The last Jew in Afghanistan’. 62yr old…
Cassius Gray: Big things coming
Words by Teddy Parkin Cassius Gray. If you haven’t heard of him, this is likely to change soon. He embodies a refreshing energy in the UK HipHop scene. As a…
In Longing Memory of Franz Kafka
The mind and soul of the early 20th Century writer, Franz Kafka, have become perhaps the most highly coveted melancholy of the modernist era. The captivating contorted realms of Kafka…
A short history of gender neutral
Words by Olly DeHerrera Olly Blue for a boy and pink for a girl” is so ingrained in our understanding of gender that it seems almost like an aspect of…