Anxious At University? You’re Not Alone
I’d never had much trouble dealing with stress before. I’d always get a little worried around essay deadlines and examinations, but I know this is completely normal. However, coming into…
It’s Time To Talk About Biphobia
Biphobia is the prejudice against bisexual and pansexual individuals, and whilst this may exist amongst the heterosexuals it’s also very common within the LGBTQ+ community itself. Bisexuality, pansexuality and general…
Acting Political: Celebrity Involvement In The Political Landscape
Amid the build up to the US mid-term elections, global megastar Taylor Swift released a political statement via Instagram to her 112 million followers. Swift has previously been known for…
Period Poverty: The Untold Story Behind The Tax On Women’s Bodies
Jaffa cakes and edible cake decorations are just some of the products that are VAT free in Britain, and yet tampons and sanitary towels are still subject to a 5%…
Should We Say No To Gendered Marketing?
From the moment we become aware of the concept of gender as children we automatically become conscious of the unwritten rules that dictate what constitutes gender. From a very young…
Homelessness in Brighton: An Olympic Disaster
In a 2011 article the BBC reported that homelessness had nearly doubled in the last year. But what sparked this dramatic increase in figures? It has long been rumored that…
BAME Representation: Darren Chetty and Lacking Representation in Literature
I came across Darren Chetty, a teacher and author based in London, when reading the 2016 Readers Choice Award winner The Good Immigrant. Compiled of a selection of essays and…
Blood and Cups: Breaking the Period Taboo
Our Editor Billie-Jean Johnson talks taboos, tampons, and tackling world-wide stigma with some of the fierce women working to break it.
Freshers’ Week from a second year perspective
Annually, the University of Sussex welcomes thousands of new students to our Falmer campus and every year the Student’s Union and Brighton based clubs and businesses increase the quality and…
Why we should all embrace drag
Once an art form disregarded by many, 2018 bears witness to the continuous rise of drag as a legitimate, celebrated art. Spearheaded by RuPaul’s Drag Race, drag is becoming a…
Student research happening at Sussex
(Image source: Flickr, Pixabay, Wikipedia) Another academic year is coming to a close and with it, the last edition of The Badger. To celebrate our last science section, we asked…
For students, where does work end and rest begin?
Print Production Editor Lucy Pegg examines the difficult balance between work and rest for students. In an environment that blurs the line between productivity and recreation, can we ever feel…
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…
Long Read: The Badger’s Tickell interview revisited amidst UCU strikes
In the wake of the UCU strikes, The Badger‘s former Editor, Freya Marshall Payne, revisits her 2016 interview with the then-new Vice-Chancellor, Adam Tickell. She explores how his comments two…
Brexit and future tech
With a close eye trained on Brexit and contemporary Britain’s place in a fast-changing world, Science Co-Editor Luke Richards makes clear his opinion on how our nation should be hoping…
Long Read: Media and University have failed students on UCU strikes
There has been a lot of confusion and anger surrounding the strikes. The Tab has been dominant in forming the student media narrative, yet their reporting has been sensationalist and…
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…
Women’s suffrage 100 years on: what’s changed?
As it reaches a century since the defining moments of women’s suffrage, Roisin McCormack looks into how much things have really changed. Is a celebration of the time passed since…
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…