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Image Credit: Dom Fellowes One of the most successful Stonewall campaigns of recent years has been its “Rainbow Laces” initiative. Through this campaign, the LGBTQ+ charity has aimed to promote equality and inclusivity in sport by challenging homophobic, biphobic and transphobic attitudes. A study commissioned in the course of the campaign found that there is […]
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Image credit: Chris 73/Wikimedia Commons. Description: Mount Kilimanjaro. It’s 3am. I’m stumbling uncontrollably. It’s dark, cold and I’m relying entirely on other people to show me where to go. No, I’m not drunk, I’m 5000m or so up the world’s tallest free-standing mountain. Record Scratch. I bet you’re wondering how I got here? Over a […]
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Image credit: Alex Homer. Description: Slough bus station. Ever since I read my favourite poet John Betjeman’s verse entitled “Slough”, I’ve wanted to visit the town to see if it was really as beautiful as he made it sound. After all, he clearly didn’t call it “the mess they call a town” for nothing. So […]
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Image Credit: Aleksandra Cywinska Onyx Magazine celebrated the launch of its inaugural issue on 18 October 2018, with the mandate to be a magazine created by and for black students at the University of Oxford. The first issue of Onyx contains 88 pages filled to the brim with poetry, art, and articles thematically linked to […]
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Image Credit: Facebook Rainbow Peers is a support network run by and for LGBTQ+ students at the University of Oxford. As an organisation, it recognises the unique challenges and pressures that queer students face, and aims to provide a safe space for queer people to talk about whatever issues they might be confronting in a […]
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Image Credit: Flicker Guo-Sheng Liu was formerly co-chair of the SU LGBTQ+ Campaign, BME Representative of the LGBTQ+ Society, LGBTQ+ Representative at Lincoln College, committee member of the SU Campaign for Racial Awareness and Equality and It Happens Here campaign. Racism operates beyond the individual. Racism is a system of beliefs, power, and privileges. Racism […]
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Image Credit: Len Williams I discovered I liked girls right before my second year: after I’d discovered I liked boys but before I figured out I wasn’t interested in sex. My friend was joking about how sapphic my writing was and something in me clicked. I told her her suspicions were true. She asked, “Would […]
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Image Credit: Michael Gribben Black History Month has just ended, and very few people can claim to know much about the contribution that black people have made to this country. Even fewer still, can claim to know that the black presence dates back centuries, and in fact thousands of years. Yet black people are still […]
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My experience of seasonal work was a roller coaster. I spent four and a half months over the winter holidays, until May, working as a costumer for a holiday club, starting in Opio, in the south of France, for training, and quickly moving on to Val Thorens, in the Alps. Initially, I found it hard […]
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Oxford, and LMH in particular, host many interesting events but I must say that I’ve never attended an event in Oxford like this Anhui tourism event at LMH. Having cycled through countless roadsuntil I thought I must now be in Cambridge, I eventually arrived at LMH and followed signs to reach Talbot Hall. I suppose […]
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Image Credit: Kimberly Glassman What are the conditions that allow us to use and store knowledge? What supports (both physical and otherwise) do we use to access this knowledge? Moreover, how has this narrative changed in our age of new media digitisation? Joanna Vestey’s Conditions of Knowledge (2018) exhibition at the North Wall Arts Centre […]
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Image Credit: Kimberly Glassman On Wednesday 25 October 2018, Dr. Bert Hansen, author of Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America (2009) came to Green Templeton College as this year’s McGovern Lecturer on the history of medicine (endowed by the late Dr John McGovern […]
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Image Credit: Wikipedia I had come across The Science Gallery’s motto, “Where art and science collide,” months before I officially made the move to England. As an art historian and curator, this short statement had me wondering what kind of experiences one could expect to have in an exhibition space that brings art and science into […]
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Image Credit: Wikipedia Thank them, first and foremost. Say, “Thank you for your courage and for trusting me.” For some, coming out – declaring one’s sexual orientation and/or gender identity — is as easy as breathing. For others, a brief moment follows weeks or even months of antagonising about how you would react. Reassure them […]
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Image Credit: Roger Templeman Last week, it was announced that Plush, Oxford’s largest LGBTQ+ venue and only gay nightclub, will be closing down – although hopefully only temporarily. The owners are currently in talks to source a suitable replacement venue, but there are no signs yet where this could be. While the search is underway, […]
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Image credit: Facebook Yotam Vaknin is from Israel pursuing his MSc in Physics. One evening during my second week at Oxford, my flatmate explained to me how to read the little pictures on the stove that illustrates to which stove each switch is connected to. You might expect that getting accepted to Oxford would suggest I am […]
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Image credit: Pixabay Evalena is a visiting student from New York reading English. This is my first year at Oxford and the longest time I’ve spent in the UK. So, as a disclaimer, I have had admittedly limited exposure to Oxford’s particular words and their meanings. But by asking British students to explain what they mean, […]
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Image Credit: JarmolUK National Coming Out Day, celebrated earlier this month, is a day to be open and proud of who you are. A day to shine a light on the LGBTQ+ community, the milestones we have reached, and the ones yet to come. It is incredibly touching to see charities, businesses, universities, and other […]
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Image credit: Facebook Danielle is from Canada and is undertaking a DPhil in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. “Congratulations! We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted to the programme of your dreams for start in October 2018.” Opening email, my heart dropped. It sank due to disbelief; I’m not sure why I, amongst the […]
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