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    Afghanistan Society protests the invitation of Hamdullah Mohib to Oxford Union

    BREAKING NEWS: St Benet’s Hall announces that university will not renew its official licence

    HRH Prince Charles visits Oxford University

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    Agatha Gutierrez Echenique shares some pictures of his sock knitting for his sustainable hobby feature.

    Sustainable Hobby Feature: Knitting

    Oxford Kite Festival to feature artists and thinkers such as Grace Jones, Richard Dawkins, and Ai Weiwei

    A Visit from Anthony Joshua

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    Is a Charles regency the way forward for the British Monarchy?

    BREAKING NEWS: St Benet’s Hall announces that university will not renew its official licence

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    Dan the Man: All Aboard Starmer’s Submarine

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    Book Review: “Chums” by Simon Kuper

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    Review: Omnium Gatherum by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

    Review: Dracula by Serendipity Productions

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    In Conversation with the Gender Pay Gap Bot

    Interview with Husam Zomlot, Palestinian Ambassador to UK

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    SUNDAY ROW-ST: ALPACAS END HUMANITY’S PROBLEMS

    Oxford Students’ Toxic Traits

    SUNDAY ROAST: NEW VICE CHANCELLOR SAYS ‘YEAH BALLIOL!’*

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    New assault from nature: Hepatitis in children

    Desalination on demand

    Talking Fungi

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    Agatha Gutierrez Echenique shares some pictures of his sock knitting for his sustainable hobby feature.

    Sustainable Hobby Feature: Knitting

    A person searching through a vintage clothing rack –  perhaps in search of formal clothes!

    A Definitive Guide to Second Hand Formal Clothes

    A map of the 2022 April floods in South Africa.

    On the Reality of the Durban Floods

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    Fuelled on Faith; Ramadan and Sport

    Long, Long Road to Qatar

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    Dates of Our Lives: Pints, poison, and puking

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·23rd November 2020

My (not quite) five minutes of TikTok fame

Robert Macilraith
Image description: a silhouette of a hand holds out a phone with the TikTok app open In my time writing...
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·30th November 2020

Why the GRA discourse is missing the point

Kylie MacFarquharson
I fell in love with the Canterbury Cathedral when I was 14, the first time I saw the Great Cloister,...
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·29th October 2021

On the importance of safe spaces

Agatha Gutierrez Echenique
Image description: two LGBTQ+ pride flags waving in the wind According to the Oxford Dictionary, a safe space is a...
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·19th January 2020

‘Colourfully queer’ – Finding an alternative family at Oxford

Jade Calder
Upon arriving at Oxford, I was initially tentative about dipping my toe into the water of the LGBTQ+ ‘scene’, as...
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·2nd November 2018

Why we need more queer safe spaces in our university

Meg Howells
Image Credit: Roger Templeman Last week, it was announced that Plush, Oxford’s largest LGBTQ+ venue and only gay nightclub, will...
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Daguerrotype of Emily Dickinson. The poet's relationship with Susan Gilbert and its romantic overtones have been the subject of erasure as a result of our heteronormative culture.
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·18th January 2022

And they were… roommates?: The erasure of queer love

Jessica DeMarco-Jacobson
Image Description: Daguerrotype of Emily Dickinson. The poet’s relationship with Susan Gilbert and its romantic overtones have been the subject...
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The Embrace by Gustav Klimt -- which, what else can we do, in times of fear, but love each other?
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·12th May 2022

Fear and Loving: Reflections from a Trans Person

Agatha Gutierrez Echenique
Image Description: The Embrace by Gustav Klimt. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. The constitution makes no...
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·5th March 2021

Pop in a Pandemic: Jenny Scoones on her new single ‘Always Known’

Timea Iliffe
Image description: a picture of Jenny and a cat at home CW: transphobia The Oxford Student spoke to Jenny Elizabeth...
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·1st November 2020

Reflections on asexual week

Leo Gillard
Asexual awareness week is the last week of October – did you know that? Because I sure didn’t, until a...
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·24th February 2020

Hoist the colours – LGBT History Month at Oxford’s colleges

Lauren Shirreff
Image description: A pride flag flies above Balliol College. Image credit: Balliol College Facebook page For the first time, Balliol...
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·12th November 2020

BBC impartiality and trans identity

Leo Gillard
I feel like it’s worth prefacing this whole piece with a statement: I don’t think I’ve ever considered working for...
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·13th June 2021

“My name is Neo!”: The Matrix as trans allegory

Charley Archer
Image description: green letters formed vertically against a black background reminiscent of The Matrix “My name, is Neo!” And so marks...
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·22nd May 2019

“Queer representation in the media is not a choice, it’s a necessity”

Jessica Duffy
“Arthur”, a children’s television show airing since the 90s, kicked off its twenty-second season with a homosexual wedding between the...
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·12th June 2019

Is pride welcoming to the whole community?

Anonymous
Oxford Pride this year was the first Pride I ever attended; I’ve been firmly in the closet around my family...
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·26th April 2020

Surviving in the closet during lockdown

C. T.
Image description: a person at the window of dark room “I’m going to make sure that your wedding is nearby...
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·15th February 2021

How has Colonialism impacted the LGBTQ+ Community?

J.M. General
Image Description: LGBTQ+ victory parade 2018 in Calcutta, India, a sign reads: “Queers for Democracy not for Emergency” When I...
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·11th January 2019

Steven Universe: a model of queer representation

Guo-Sheng Liu
‘Steven Universe’ is a popular cartoon on the US-based channel Cartoon Network, which is at once delightful, musical, emotional and...
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·31st March 2019

The importance of Transgender Visibility Day

Ray Cheung
Image description: Janet Mock, Grand Marshall at the 2014 San Francisco Pride Parade Transgender Visibility Day, also known as ‘TDoV’,...
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·2nd February 2020

Queer Theory – What’s it all about?

Susmita Dave
Last Thursday, I attended a philosophy reading group which aimed to unpack the term ‘queer theory’ and the implications of...
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