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Image Description: A close up shot of a sharpie pen and labels saying ‘Hello, my name is…’ leaving a blank for a name to be written in Irrespective of whether or not I actually like the name I was given by my parents; it is a fundamental part of my identity and I fail to […]
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Image description: Budapest LGBTQ+ Pride 2015 “Wonderland Is For Everyone,” says the title of an inclusive fairytale featuring characters from queer and ethnic minority backgrounds. “Not for us,” is apparently the answer of the Hungarian government. The publishers, the Labrisz Lesbian Association, must now indicate through a disclaimer on this and future LGBTQ+ inclusive books […]
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Image description: An aerial view of the Radcliffe Camera. October 2020 marks the centenary of female students being allowed to matriculate and graduate from the University of Oxford for the first time. The occasion calls for commemoration of all that has changed in that time, as well as reflection on what still needs to be […]
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Image description: Professor Sunny Singh holding the Jhalak prize trophy 2019 First awarded in 2017, the Jhalak Prize was founded to celebrate books of all descriptions written by British citizens or British residents of colour. The idea came from two writers, Sunny Singh and Nikesh Shukla, who are supported by the authors club, media diversified […]
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Photo description: an AIDS awareness mural by Keith Haring in Barcelona The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a proliferation of medical trials seeking to treat and eventually cure the virus, one of which is the convalescent plasma trial. Scientists hope that, by recruiting volunteers who have had coronavirus, they will be able to develop a […]
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Household chores and childcare were pretty evenly distributed in my house but if there was one thing that fell directly under my mother”s responsibilities, it was my hair. Some of my most vivid childhood memories are of me sitting between my mother’s legs, head lolling off to sleep and her hands lovingly braiding my hair. […]
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Image description: Magdalen College Improving access to students from more disadvantaged backgrounds has rightly become the priority for Oxbridge admissions. After all, no young person should be discriminated against “on the basis of the class they were born into”. The upper echelons of higher education should be open to all inspiring, budding young intellectuals and […]
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Image Credit: Walterlan Papetti (CC BY-SA 4.0) This summer has seen Disney cross another major milestone in its journey to put characters from across the LGBT spectrum on the big screen. The upcoming Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson film, Jungle Cruise, is set to feature Jack Whitehall as the gay brother of the film’s leading lady. […]
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“Social apartheid”, “fiefdoms of privilege”, “centuries of entrenched privilege” – such are the damning, yet also all too familiar, condemnatory remarks recently aimed at Oxford and Cambridge by MP David Lammy. According to Lammy: “Only one in four Cambridge colleges made offers to black British students in every year between 2010 and 2015 […] And each year […]
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Created in 1980, Oxford Friend is a voluntary organisation which runs a helpline for LGBTQ+ people in Oxford. Back then, according to one of its most long-serving volunteers, things were a lot worse than they are today. We’re also better off now than we were in 2000, when a church in the city centre told […]
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An Oxford bowling alley has come under fire after a video showing staff members being discriminatory against travellers was shared online.
Continue ReadingAn ex-employee of Kellogg College is suing Oxford University for age discrimination and unfair dismissal. Catriona Carter Jonas, 53, told Reading Tribunal Centre last week that she suffered “nasty treatment” from her superiors at Kellogg, causing her to “cry herself to sleep”. She stated that the college’s former bursar once described her as a “wrinkly […]
Continue ReadingI confess, the title of this article is somewhat of a misdirect. It’s true, I don’t consider myself a feminist, however, this isn’t to say I’m not a supporter of everything that feminism stands for. On the contrary, I fully back the entire cause. That does not make me a feminist. I’m male, I’m white, […]
Continue ReadingThe evening began with an emergency debate designed to get the chamber in the mood for discussions of sexism. The motion this House would allow everyone to vote for VP Women in OUSU elections carried, with very few speakers for the opposition. This was not to be a foretelling of the evening’s main event, with […]
Continue ReadingLuke Buckley and Charlotte Tarr debate the advisability of positive discrimination.
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