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. This essay was originally published on her website during the 2017 season of Love Island. Featured image: Clem Onojeghuo at Unsplash A foreword…
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ONE POEM – Sally Yazwinski
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 graduate school in Cork Ireland, and…
Intercultural transfer in the poetry of Arun Kolatkar – Nora Selmani
Image: M. F. Husain – Man, 1951 Nora Selmani is an academic marketing executive, co-editor of Porridge Magazine and part-time witch interested in gender and diaspora. Her work has appeared in Dead King Magazine, FEMRAT, Peach Mag, O GOCE, and OCCULUM. She tweets @arbnoraselmani Intercultural transfer in the poetry of Arun Kolatkar ‘Lady if I start a poem in this country it will not…
The Loneliest Drag King – Johnny Jupiter
Image: Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria (1982) Johnny Jupiter aka Ar Booth is a trainee History teacher from Bradford. They studied History and Politics at University of Birmingham and did their undergraduate dissertation on the political subversiveness of drag kings while their MA dissertation was on the political subversiveness of female stand up comics. Johnny has performed…
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…
‘Told you we ain’t dead yet, we been livin’ through your internet’: The Evolution of Hip Hop – Jason Garske
Jason Garske aka Jay the Echo is a Hip Hop artist and producer from the Bay Area, California. He is interested in the utilization of music and other media as a vessel for social change. Visit his website to see his work. ‘Told you we ain’t dead yet, we been livin’ through your internet’: The Evolution of…
Frames – Jay The Echo (Music Video)
Jay the Echo is a Hip Hop artist and producer from the Bay Area, California. He is interested in the utilization of music and other media as a vessel for social change. For more material, visit jaytheecho.com. Frames – Jay The Echo In Jay’s own words, Frames is about an artist’s epiphany about the feeling of freedom that comes…
Is the celebration of quality television a type of cultural elitism? – Amelia Nicholson
Amelia Nicholson is a film graduate and aspiring screenwriter interested in the rhyme and reason behind storytelling. Is the celebration of quality television a type of cultural elitism? It can, and has been argued that ‘quality television’ represents the upper class equivalent of contemporary excellence in visual entertainment akin to the divide between literary fiction…
The Good, the Bad, and the Evil: Repairing Our World & Reconciling with Our Limits – Scott Remer
Scott Remer is an MPhil student in Political Thought & Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. As an undergrad, he studied Ethics, Politics, & Economics at Yale University. His interests include political theory and contemporary politics, epistemology, metaphysics, psychology, literature, and Chinese philosophy. The Good, the Bad, and the Evil: Repairing Our World &…
Interdisciplinarity: A Brief Introduction – Dr Matt Hayler
Dr Matt Hayler is a lecturer in post-1945 Literature in the Department of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. His research interests focus on e-reading, materially experimental writing, digital humanities, critical theory, technology, and embodiment. He can be found on twitter @cryurchin. Interdisciplinarity: A Brief Introduction Interdisciplinarity is a long word for a good thing….
‘By day and night he wrongs me…I’ll not endure it’: The Gender Politics of Rewriting King Lear – Nora Selmani
Nora Selmani is a final year English and Creative Writing student at the University of Birmingham. Her interests include diasporic literature, feminist readings of everything, and poetry. Kaede and Jiro in Kurosawa’s Ran. ‘By day and night he wrongs me…I’ll not endure it’: The Gender Politics of Rewriting King Lear The tragedy of King…
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