Who Owns Your Voice?
With artificial intelligence rapidly advancing, we are posed with new challenges on how we can protect our identity. As examples of deepfakes are spread across the internet, concerns are raised…
Top Five Books on Identity
Words by Saskia May Ancient and magical is the tradition and art of storytelling. Literature can offer us explanations for human behaviour, it can draw out our hidden feelings, and…
Black History Month
What does Black History Month Mean to Me? – A personal essay written by Henry Rolle Growing up in The Bahamas, a country that was predominantly Black, there was not…
A conversation with Kathleen Stock on Transgender Identity
Kathleen Stock, a philosophy lecturer at Sussex University, met with controversy after criticising the government’s reform of the Gender Recognition Act (2004). The amendment would ‘de-medicalise’ the legal process for…
More Brit(ish) than ever: A review of Afua Hirsch at Brighton Festival
Afua Hirsch’s 2018 book – part memoir, part polemic – provokes mixed feelings. So too did her discussion of the topic at this year’s Brighton Festival. Don’t get me wrong,…
Talking disability, identity and inclusion through dance – Candoco preview
Candoco are a company of disabled and non-disabled dancers who, for the past 25 years, have challenged ideas about what dance can be and who gets to be a part…
Multicultural Britain must face up to its Identity question
The subject of identity is far from an easy one. That is not to say merely that it is difficult to solve – that much is a statement of the…
Escaping Our Digital Existence
Luke Richards discusses the development of our digital identity and the impact of technology in our daily lives. Technology tends to be ubiquitous in our daily lives; it is part…
The 21st Century Conundrum: Generation Like! Comment! Share!
Bebo. MySpace. Hi5. Friendster. Facebook. YouTube. Flickr. Twitter. Tumblr. Instagram. Some of these are dead; some of these are dying; some of these still have many more years to serve.…
Student Life Centre leaks identities of student visitors
An email providing a list of the email addresses of attendees of the Student Life Centre has left students feeling outraged at the privacy infringement. The data was leaked on…