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…
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…
How is the University of Sussex helping combat electricity shortages in Zimbabwe?
Electricity is often taken for granted by the Western culture. Yet without it, our day-to-day lives wouldn’t be the same. It controls the small, banal things like charging our phones…
Eight Days in Palestine: why living is the best form of resistence
‘Where did you go on your travels? And who did you meet?’ These two questions formed the thrust of the Israeli border security agent’s interrogation as we attempted to leave…
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,…
How can Sussex students ensure their campus is safe?
In light of the alleged harassment of DragSoc members leaving a social, Roisin McCormack investigates what our University’s students can do to ensure our progressive legacy lives on, and comments…
Freshers: Don’t forget to breathe
By this stage in life you will have been given a lot of advice, coming from everywhere and everyone. People have a tendency to relay stories of what University was…
Hong Kong Handover: Emancipation or Embitterment
From the streets of Hong Kong, the Badger’s former Deputy Editor and newly-minted Foreign Correspondent Glenn Houlihan reports on the latest wave of protests; can its ‘one country, two systems’…
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…
‘Unite and Fight’: Why Sussex students should back rail strikes
If there were any more evidence needed of the government’s continued efforts to undermine unions on strike, it has come in the form of the recent amendments to the Trade…
‘Green and Pleasant Land?’ The housing crisis and a historical solution
“What sordid, and even terrible, details surrounds the life of the poor, what a mechanical and empty life she forces on the rich; and how rare a holiday it is…
‘A Brave New You’: Human Enhancement and Bioinnovation
“O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in’t!” -Shakespeare, The Tempest Homo sapiens; our differences in…
‘Stay Woke and Vote: Hip-Hop artists in political life
Obama famously remarked in 2008: “the thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable”.…
Free Trade is Fair Trade
After WW2 the world was ravaged by conflict. Everyone was in agreement, this could not be allowed to happen again. To rebuild, humanity needed to learn how to work together.…
Protest is education not indoctrination
At the Women’s March in London it was a single child who stuck in my mind: a little boy who could have been hardly older than eight. He saw the…
Dehumanising the Homeless
When walking to work, I saw a homeless man face down, motionless, on the pavement. I asked if he was okay and received no response. He appeared to be unconscious.…