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Dec 19, 20224 min read
‘Revolt of the Mother’ and the Subversiveness of Female Comedy
Writing by Saskia Marrett. Artwork by Paola Valentina. I am old-fashioned, and I think it right That man should know, by Nature’s laws...


Dec 19, 20225 min read
Fighting humanity’s death sentence: civil resistance, art, and the climate catastrophe
Writing by Zoe Nayani. Artwork by Kate Granholm (@katesartthings on Instagram) A year ago, the phrase ‘Van Gogh tomato soup’ seemed like...


Dec 19, 20224 min read
Tradwives: A Revolt Against Feminism or Capitalism?
Writing by Katie O'Connor. Artwork by Cilla Sullivan. One day while scrolling through TikTok I came across a pretty unsettling video. It...


Dec 19, 20223 min read
Let Them Eat Cake: The Shift in our Cultural Perception of ‘Revolt’
Writing by Zoe Milton. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan When one thinks of revolting, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Is it some...

Dec 19, 20223 min read
Paula Rego’s The Untitled: Abortion Pastels: challenging the ‘male gaze’ and giving women power back
Writing by Emma Brennan. Artwork by Alexandra Golds. CW: abortion White cisgender men have forever had a tight grip on the art world....


Oct 22, 20225 min read
Horny Holy Cohen
Writing by Scarlett Smyth. Artwork by Antonia Popescu. I watched a documentary about the making of Hallelujah, the Leonard Cohen song, a...


Oct 22, 20224 min read
The Vices of Oscar Wilde
Writing by Katie O'Connor. Artwork from Upsplash. We all have our favorite morally gray characters. The ones you can’t think about too...

Oct 22, 20222 min read
What Damien Hirst's Artwork 'For the Love of God' Tells us About Greed
Writing by Liv Bertani-Green. Damien Hirst’s artwork For the Love of God (2007) shows a human skull encrusted in diamonds – with a...


Oct 22, 20224 min read
Do Artists Have an Ethical Responsibility to Society?
Writing by Elizabeth Armitage. Artwork by Berenika Murray. I don’t think I am being controversial or radical when I say that art is very...


Oct 22, 20226 min read
B-Movies, True Crime, and the Fetishization of Violent Crimes
Writing by Lucy Scalzo. Artwork by Berenika Murray. TW: discussions of sexual assault and rape Demi Moore is covered head-to-toe in blood...


Oct 22, 20224 min read
The Arts V.s. the Artist: Should We Consume Art by Immoral Artists?
Writing by Rose Fox. Artwork by Kate Granholm (@katesartthings). Art, perhaps at its most fundamental form, is an exercise in the...


Oct 22, 20226 min read
Sex, Drugs, and Other Vices in Fashion
Writing by Orane Bloch. Artwork by Sara Pocher. Fashion shocks, fashion takes a stand and fashion constantly evolves, morphing from one...


Oct 22, 20226 min read
Artists and Their Substances
Writing by Orane Bloch. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan. When doing research for this piece, most of the articles I stumbled upon were on the...


Mar 3, 20224 min read
We Live in an Endemic Chaos on a Dying Planet: Let’s Watch Michael McIntyre’s 'The Wheel'
Writing by Jamie McDonald. Illustration by Berenika Murray. BBC One’s The Wheel is relatively simplistic. Seven celebrities encircle a...


Mar 3, 20222 min read
Not a Goth
Writing by Amelia Morgan. Illustration by Cat Easeman. I first wanted to be a goth when I was 8 years old. I am now 23 and have failed....


Mar 3, 20224 min read
Slut, Virgin or Somewhere In-Between
How female sexuality is still being controlled by the patriarchy in 2022. Writing by Anonymous. I always imagined that I’d grown up in a...


Mar 3, 20224 min read
Peaceful Resistance Through the Arts
How the Harlem Renaissance was a fundamental step in improving the rights and lives of African Americans. Writing by Ayesha Dawson....


Mar 3, 20222 min read
Is being a ‘tortured soul’ a necessary prerequisit for creating good art?
On the romanticisation of trauma and bad mental health in literature. Trigger warning: suicide, mental health. Writing by Maina Flintham...


Mar 3, 20223 min read
A Chaos of Masculinity: The Relationship between Dominant and Subordinate Masculinities
Writing by Emily Tennant. Illustration by Paola Lindo Valentina. What is masculinity? Who is allowed to express it, and why are some...


Mar 3, 20223 min read
A post-lockdown conversation with myself
Writing by Anonymous. Illustration by Sara Pocher. Like many people, I had a lot of time to think during the pandemic. One question I...
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