Have You Got Your Own Back?
A candle waves its deliberately pleasant balm around you. Lavender is known to soothe, right? Your palms absorb warm exhalations from a...
Lives apart:connected
“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees
and changing leaves.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The myth of the individual has left us disconnected, lost, and pitiful."
Kate Tempest, Let them eat chaos
Tamara Jacobs
- Oct 28, 2020
- 8 min
Reflections on navigating ‘womanhood’ in the 21st century
i still haven’t cracked it. i have yet to reconcile the many paradoxes, the unattainable expectations, yet the damning constraints. spoiler,
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Lauren Levine
- Oct 27, 2020
- 5 min
Ambiguous Freedoms
In my first year at Oxford, a fresh faced ingenue, I wrote an essay I believed to be revolutionary. A game changer. My controversial...
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Olivia Gurney-Randall
- Oct 24, 2020
- 3 min
Ha! We live!
Never be ashamed of overthinking and over-feeling, it is a beautiful thing to feel. Sensitivity is precious, don’t lose it. Those who...
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Olivia Gurney-Randall
- Sep 1, 2020
- 9 min
Warhol and I: The Social Disease
When meandering artfully around the Andy Warhol exhibition at the Tate Modern the other day I came across a remarkable phrase in which...
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Lauren Levine
- Aug 30, 2020
- 5 min
Spectrum
I wrote this on the eve of my 19th birthday. A time where, in retrospect, I see I was processing a lot. This sense of numbness is the...
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Jordan Kupfer
- Aug 24, 2020
- 23 min
An Incredibly Personal, Dark, and Long Account of my Battle with Depression (2015-16, present-day)
PREFACE: This is going to be a difficult read. It is going to be incredibly personal. It is going to be a long, stream of consciousness,...
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Lauren Levine
- Aug 15, 2020
- 12 min
Bridges, Bubbles and Bias
“When I was a child, if I had a problem I could not solve, I would not eat for three days until I had done it. You … You are not like...
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Olivia Gurney-Randall
- Aug 9, 2020
- 8 min
Living with a disabled brother
“You won’t believe what my sister has done, she only went and stole my white dress and spilt red wine all over it! That cost me £120!”...
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Olivia Gurney-Randall
- Jul 30, 2020
- 3 min
Iconoclasm
In response to Katy Harrison's excellent and thought-provoking article https://www.theelenchus.org/post/thoughts-on-the-portrayal-of-hist...
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Katy Harrison
- Jul 28, 2020
- 1 min
Thoughts on the Portrayal of Historical Figures and Present Values.
This post is largely speculative, and seeks to engage a sharing of ideas in terms of how we perceive and engage with historical figures....
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Andrew Sullivan
- Jul 26, 2020
- 1 min
Foundation
What is a foundation? Large, bare, and unremarkable: it is a promise. What is here now may look uninteresting and devoid of any detail,...
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