Image: The Rothschild’s Surrealist Ball, 1972 Sally Yazwinski was born and raised on her family’s dairy farm in Western Massachusetts. She went on to earn her M.Ed in moderate disabilities and taught middle school for six years. She then earned an MFA in Fiction from the University of Idaho. She’s currently living and going to…
Category: Modern
ONE POEM – Armen Abalian
Image: Zena Assi – Bridges over the city shore, 2016 Most of Armen Abalian’s artistic endeavors have been related to music and photography. Poetry is a relatively new field for him. That said, he has already been published a couple of times, most recently in Ghost City Review in May 2017. He currently divides his time…
ONE POEM – Carling Berkhout
Image: Giotto – Nativity, 1303-05 Carling Berkhout is a writer and musician, currently studying at Bennington College with a focus on the illustration/construction of girlhood, boyhood, and womanhood. The majority of her creative work deals with understanding identity and body within a gendered society. Her work has appeared in Quail Bell Magazine, Anti-Heroin Chic, and…
Women’s Rights in Kosovo – Iliriana F
Iliriana Fteja is an aspiring writer with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from DePaul University, with a passion for International Law and Human Rights. Currently taking a gap year and working for USA Today – Gannett, you can follow her on twitter to keep up with her opinions and political views. Featured image: ‘Thinking of…
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‘These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends’: An Analysis of Humanity and Ideology in HBO’s Westworld – Amelia Nicholson
Amelia Nicholson is a Film and Television graduate learning the ropes of television production with a keen interest in the nature of storytelling. Featured image credit: HBO ‘These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends’ – An Analysis of Humanity and Ideology in HBO’s Westworld In 2016, HBO introduced the high quality, genre-bending Westworld to our screens….
For all women, or for no women: power and feminism’s broken relationship with consumer capitalism – Milly Morris
Milly Morris likes Foucault and feminism. She is currently chasing a PhD in political science at the University of Birmingham. She is a runner, as well as a lover of chickpeas and Game of Thrones. Featured image credit: James McNellis via Wikipedia For all women, or for no women: power and feminism’s broken relationship with consumer…
An Inside Void: Architecture’s renewal in the sciences and its contemporary meaning – Tudor Manda
Tudor Manda is a graduate in Sociology and Anthropology from Université Saint-Louis in Brussels, and in Cultural Studies from KULeuven, with great interests in diverse cultures from around the world, in the study of “other” civilisations, and the liberal arts. He is currently diving into the financial and banking industry. An Inside Void: Architecture’s renewal…
What is a Wolf? A text on the relationship between writing and animals – Fergus Doyle
Fergus Doyle is currently studying a masters in Literature and Modernity at the University of Edinburgh. He is interested in subjects prefixed by ‘post’, such as postmodernism, post-humanism and post-truth. What is a Wolf? A text on the relationship between writing and animals It is on long winter nights such as these, when the…
Does medicine shape gender or do gender ideals shape medicine? – Rachel Snow
Rachel Snow is a medical student who spent her pre-clinical years at Cambridge University and studied Psychology with Sociology during her third year there. She is now studying hospital-based medicine at Imperial College in London. Rachel has a particular interest in considering gender and how society, with medicine as a subset of society, shapes and…
The Freebie Express: The Question of Free Healthcare – Carlos Marques Pestana
Carlos is a 21 year old Medical Science graduate from the University of Birmingham. He’s currently working as a Trainee Analyst within the NHS and has a keen interest in liberation issues as well as science and politics. The Freebie Express: The Question of Free Healthcare The issue of free healthcare is an extremely divisive…
‘Masterly builder of Mousetraps’: Immobility, identity and spatial fear in Hitchcock’s Psycho, Rear Window and North by Northwest – Alex Diggins
Alex Diggins is studying for an MPhil in American Literature. He is interested in presentations of landscape, space and identity in American culture and literature, as well as contemporary English landscape writing. He is currently researching for a thesis on the constructions of the Frontier in 19th Century texts, and the recent film and novel…
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