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Are The ‘Woke’ Generation For Good or Just For Now?

Time is such an ever-changing concept, and generations before us and generations to come after us will experience such a vast change in societal wants and desires. I recently visited my grandma and grandad respectively on both sides of my family, and tried to delve into their experiences and views of the world, in particular with response to this awful global pandemic that is unfolding before us. It is very easy to assume that our older relatives are so ‘old-fashioned’ to the changing world around them and that their views are subjected to the times they are so used to.

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Feminism: What It Meant, What It Means

Some of you might shiver when hearing this word: feminist. You might think it’s not for you – you being a woman or a man. You might think that we don’t need it anymore; women have rights now. Or, if you’re a man, you might simply think you have nothing to do with it - you can’t be feminist by definition, and we don’t want you here anyway. Right?

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The Importance of Silliness

Like flares drifting through a dark sky, these little moments of goofiness light up the monotony of lockdown. It might be a daydreamy waltz around the kitchen while waiting for the kettle to boil, or tuneless yodelling floating from the bathroom while the shower runs.

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“Now You See Me” – Living with an Invisible Disability; The Positive Impact of the Global Pandemic on the Booming Flexible Working Market 

Forget about gender gap, is there such thing as a “health gap”? It seems like the healthier you are the more likely you are to be given fair opportunities and to move up the career ladder. Suddenly, having a masters degree from a top university doesn’t matter as long as you have a health condition, your intelligence and capabilities don’t outweigh your disability.

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Land Girls: Why Do We Not Celebrate Them?

Meriel Talbot, a civil servant working in the ministry of Agriculture, had a solution, she formed the Women’s Land Army on behalf of the government. This was a group of young women dedicated to producing food in this country, and despite only being formed 2 and a half years after it started, over 23,000 women had signed up by the end of WW1.

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Knowing How To Say No to Work

We are programmed to think that if we are not constantly ready to drop everything for our employers, that we will be seen as lazy. It’s not the case. Just as your employers would not expect you to be taking personal calls or replying to emails from friends whilst being paid to do your job, they need to remember (or be subtly reminded) that you should not be doing your job when you are not being paid. It’s that simple.

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Black Joy: Healing From the Trauma 

Blackness is the poetry of vulnerable masculinity and love in 2Pac’s poetry. It’s the blues, hip hop, R&B, garage, grime and sound system culture that we composed with the stories of our experiences. Its the classic 2-step we all know so well. Blackness is ‘our universe of experiences’.

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2020: A Plant Odyssey 

Plants will gift each other whimsical books such as How Not To Kill Your Human. The verdant fields of England will extend before them… Growth can be supplemented with fertilisers, the most popular being Red Stripe which increases libido and thus guarantees increased pollination.

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Estella Castle, and Why Artist Residencies Shouldn’t Be About The Artist

An Arts Council England grant of nearly £50,000 can be game changing if wisely invested. After securing this prize for their upcoming 'Egham Visions: Changes in Time and Perception', Egham Museum have chosen to spend it on New Zealand born artist Estella Castle. Could a non-local artist threaten to turn the museum's focus away from the local community which has always supported it?

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The Benefits of Cannabis and Chronic Pain – Why Isn’t It Available in The UK?

I am filled with a longing and hope, that one day, maybe in my lifetime this will be available for me to try at home. That it will be a regulated system, that there will be no fear of criminalisation, of who has made this product, hell, maybe you’ll even be allowed to grow your own! One day, I hope that this will be the case, so I no longer watch the benefits from across the ocean and can openly experience them myself, in a legal, supportive environment.

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A Love Letter to Bristol

At last, after years of asking nicely, the people of Bristol took the situation into their own hands, rectifying some of our wrongs; they said enough is enough, we will create our own history. They turned the statue’s very existence into an act of rebellion that should be remembered for years to come.

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