Amsterdam Solo: Discovering the True Meanings of Life in the Happiest City
Living a day as a local in the happiest city on earth has long intrigued me. Bikes, canals, windmills and tulips… This spring, I finally got to experience it on…
Life According To Maddie Bruce
22 year old Youtuber Maddie Bruce is taking the internet by storm. The UK based influencer only began her YouTube channel ‘themaddiebruce’ in 2013, but she’s already amassed over 9…
Beyond The Net
By Charmaine Jacob Brighton Marina has always been a famous destination for both tourists and locals alike. The picturesque scenery of docked yachts and the streamline of restaurants serving different…
Brighton’s craft beer festival returns in April for third year
Brighton will become the hub of craft beer in more than a dozen pubs from April 27-29. The Brighton Tap Takeover returns for a third year bringing craft beers to…
The profound experience of community outreach
This special girl, living in rural Zambia amidst wild animals and infested waters, has had a particularly difficult life. Like many children in Zambia, Joy is an orphan; when she…
Representing the People: Review
Recognising the centenary of the Representation of the People’s Act and International Women’s Day, The Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts invited four alumnae of Sussex University to discuss the…
Queer Narratives in Reality Television
I was very young when I was exposed to reality television for the first time. Settled in between both my parents on a Saturday night, I was exposed to a…
‘My First Black Breast’: The inner struggle within Interracial Relationships
We’ve all heard the phrase “I don’t usually date Black people” … Whether this has been spoken directly to you, or you have heard it spoken in reference to another.…
New term, new you: Four cheap and doable tips on how to get healthy
While your friends in full-time employment saw January as a period of healthy life changes, you didn’t have that luxury. You were busy panic referencing, panic cramming, and having multiple…
Online Shaming: Fighting Social Injustice or Mob Mentality?
The Internet has become a powerful weapon of shaming the wrongdoings of the public with rapid sharing results. In recent years, Internet users have been taking social injustices into their…
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…
Human Crufts: The Obsession With Celebrity Children
At the risk of sounding bitter with age (I am a ripe old twenty three years old) I have a request to make. Please, for the love of god, stop…
Travel Diary: Detroit
There is something uneasy about Detroit. It is a feeling that has attached itself to the crumbling brick and glassless windows. It has attached itself to the abandoned, in place…
“Unimpeachable Machismo”: Is Male Contraception More Distant Than Ever?
As sexual equality skulks reluctantly upon us, not yet here but at the very least foreseeable, an oft forgotten issue has reemerged with the news that a contraceptive gel for…
The Imaginary Boundary: a State Between ‘Girl’ and ‘Woman’
It is Monday. I have recently had my hair cut – it was at Bluetit and it was expensive, a birthday present. It is a new seminar group, this being…
Tinder: A Build Up Of Inevitable Disappointment
You have probably re-downloaded it for the seventh or eighth time. Every time you delete it you tell yourself, “never again”. Last time you finally drew the courage to send…
Healing Crystals: Spiritual Enlightenment or Voodoo Tat?
Look around you when you’re next out in Brighton. Inevitably, at some point, you’ll cast your eyes across a shop with a figure of Buddha thrust right in the front…
Reviving optimism: positive approaches to 2017
With 2016 being heralded as one of the worst years of all time, and 2017 on the cards to be even worse, it has perhaps never been more important to…
From Chuckie to Archie: Red Hair on Screen
“It’s quite offensive,” says my flatmate, Freya. We are reassessing some of our favourite children’s films and television programmes: The Rugrats, Cheaper by the Dozen, Diary of a Wimpy Kid,…