• About
  • Editorial Team
  • Contact
  • Send a news tip 👀
  • Write for us
  • Apply to join our team!
  • Our sponsors
Oxford University's Student Newspaper. Est. 1991
  • 7th July 2022
  • News
    News

    Applications to OxStu MT22 Senior Editorial Team are now open!

    Review: ‘Scenes with Girls’ by Love Song Productions

    OxStu Editors in Chief for MT22 announced

    • University News
    • College News
    • Local News
    • National News
    • Investigations
  • Features
    Features

    A Student Abroad: How to Stay Safe

    La Barque Bleue by Claude Monet. The painting depicts two women on a boat engaged in communication.

    An ethic of communication in academic contexts

    A photograph of a German cockroach.

    Changing cockroach behaviours: the implications of human action

    • Features
    • Identity
    • Pink
  • Comment
    Comment

    Blowing Up Ukraine by Yuri Felshtinsky and Michael Stanchev review: an urgent warning for us all

    9% too much no banner

    9% too much

    Matt Robyns-Landricombe, President of the Right for Education Oxford.

    • University/Local Issues
    • National Issues
    • International Issues
  • Culture
    Culture

    Blowing Up Ukraine by Yuri Felshtinsky and Michael Stanchev review: an urgent warning for us all

    Way Out Yonder: Understanding ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ before You See the Movie

    Review: Tick, Tick…Boom!

    • Entertainment
    • Food & Drink
    • Gaming
    • Style
    • Gen Z
  • Profile
    Profile

    In Conversation with Author and Journalist Elizabeth Day

    Matt Robyns-Landricombe, President of the Right for Education Oxford.

    Balliol Politics Don, Sudhir Hazareesingh: Don’t De-Colonise the Curriculum, EXPAND It

  • OxYou
    OxYou

    Satire and Student Features

    SUNDAY ROAST: THE HOTTEST STATISTICS OF THE YEAR

    Confessions of a Hopeless Finalist

    SUNDAY ROAST: #TRASHING SWEEPS ELECTION

  • SciTech
    SciTech

    New assault from nature: Hepatitis in children

    Desalination on demand

    Talking Fungi

  • Green
    Green
    A photograph of a German cockroach.

    Changing cockroach behaviours: the implications of human action

    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

  • Sport
    Sport

    Ronnie O’Sullivan: snooker’s favourite villain

    Debate: Leclerc vs Verstappen

    Fulham fan’s corner: is yo-yoing a problem for football?

    • University Sport
    • College Sport
  • Column
    Column
    dates of our lives

    Dates of Our Lives: A break in and a broken heart

    Dan the Man

    Dan The Man: On Empathy

    Blane's Style Files

    Blane’s Style Files: Sub Fusc – An Oxford Spotter’s Guide

  • OxStu in Print
A to Z
  • Latest
  • Oldest
  • Random
  • A to Z

Love

A mother braids her daughter's natural hair.
Identity
·19th February 2020

‘Don’t touch my hair’ – the significance of ‘Hair Love’

Ibtihaaj Mohamoud
Household chores and childcare were pretty evenly distributed in my house but if there was one thing that fell directly...
Read More
Features
·19th May 2019

All you need is love (and a Blue, and a First)

Elle Styler
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an Oxford student nearing graduation must be in want of three things: a...
Read More
News
·13th December 2013

Christmas Jumper Day

Ellie Grange
December hails the arrival of Christmas cheer and plenty of it. Mince pies and mulled wine, decorating evergreen trees in...
Read More
OxYou
·31st May 2020

Dean of Hearts: Week Five, Marriage Woes

Adi Kesaia Toganivalu
Got any troubles, worries, concerns, or heartaches? Send them to the Dean of Hearts by filling out this anonymous form. “Dear Dean...
Read More
Entertainment
·14th July 2014

From ‘First Kiss’ to ‘Undress Me’ – awkwardly juggling science and Cyrus

Thomas Barnett
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKZa-Kb4Nng]   Perhaps I am revealing myself as a cynic, but Tatia Pilieva’s ‘First Kiss’ (a video of ten...
Read More
OxYou
·25th June 2020

Heartbreak at Oxford

Eve Laird
Image Description: A paper heart hanging from some string. You don’t sleep, you don’t eat, and you won’t understand what...
Read More
Pink
·11th October 2019

Long-distance at Oxford: can it work?

Robert MacIlraith
Image description: My boyfriend and I at Wadham Commemoration Ball 2019 The life of an Oxford student can, at times,...
Read More
Life
·24th February 2016

Love Me Tender, Love Me Sweet: Romance in Music is Obsolete

Huw Pid
With Valentine’s day last Sunday (a day of commercial nonsense which takes all the spontaneity out of romance) my mind...
Read More
Entertainment
·27th January 2011

Podcast: Intimacy Without Equality?

The play, "Statements of an Arrest Under the Immorality Act," is the story of forbidden love between a white librarian and a coloured schoolteacher in 1960s South Africa. Their feelings for each other easily fractured by apartheid, the two must come to terms with a painful truth. Director Milja Fenger and Marcel Miller sit down with The Oxford Student to discuss what this piece means to them.
Read More
Culture
·29th May 2020

Screaming lyrics of love at Leeds Festival 2019: a beautiful queer moment

Simone Dawes
Image Description: Crowds at a festival I took my time to get into the 1975. The phenomenon of their ever-growing...
Read More
Features
·27th February 2021

Agony Aunt: Love, Hate and the Dreaded Housemate

Elsie Clark and Sonia Richter
Image description: newspaper clippings with the words ‘agony aunt’ written in block letters.  This week, the Agony Aunts take on...
Read More
Features
·4th August 2018

Challenging sexism in Love Island

Sophie Kilminster
Image Credit: Sevda (CC0) With Love Island upping its average viewership to 3.3 million this year, as opposed to last...
Read More
dates of our lives
Column
·15th June 2022

Dates of Our Lives: A break in and a broken heart

Poppy Atkinson Gibson
Before I begin I must stress that no one was harmed in the making of this story. Well, no one...
Read More
EntertainmentLife
·9th March 2014

Foxes “more acoustic feel” charms at the Academy

Nasim Asl
Three sold-out shows graced Oxford’s O2 Academy on the final day of February this year – One Direction support act...
Read More
Features
·11th May 2018

Hating the sin: how I balance friendship and faith

Mary Lobo
The stereotypical behaviour of students is often incompatible with Catholic morality. If you believe that getting drunk, taking recreational drugs,...
Read More
Science and Technology
·16th February 2018

Is there really a thin line between love and hate? Scientists explore the age old question

Aaliya Gilbert - Science Editor
The line between love and hate is often described as painfully thin. This is a peculiar concept given the two...
Read More
News
·21st September 2017

Long-distance relationships and Oxford: a guide

I imagine life feels pretty good for many of you at the moment. You’ve achieved some amazing grades that have...
Read More
Pink
·3rd December 2021

PINK CREATIVE CORNER: ‘Flower children’ / ‘Just a Crush’

Alice Watkinson, Molly Evans
Image description: LGBTQ+ pride rainbow colours textured as crinkled paper    “Flower children” – Alice Watkinson you are not stunted...
Read More
Pink
·15th November 2020

Queer life in lockdown: live, laugh, love and learn

Charlie Croft
For members of the LGBTQ+ community, the Coronavirus pandemic has been particularly challenging. Queer people suffer from far higher rates...
Read More
Load More

Latest News

  • Applications to OxStu MT22 Senior Editorial Team are now open! 4th July 2022
  • Review: ‘Scenes with Girls’ by Love Song Productions 1st July 2022
  • Blowing Up Ukraine by Yuri Felshtinsky and Michael Stanchev review: an urgent warning for us all 30th June 2022
  • OxStu Editors in Chief for MT22 announced 24th June 2022
  • In Conversation with Author and Journalist Elizabeth Day 23rd June 2022
  • About
  • Editorial Team
  • Contact
  • Send a news tip 👀
  • Write for us
  • Apply to join our team!
  • Our sponsors
Oxford Student Services Ltd. 2022
  • News
    • University News
    • College News
    • Local News
    • National News
    • Investigations
  • Features
    • Features
    • Identity
    • Pink
  • Comment
    • University/Local Issues
    • National Issues
    • International Issues
  • Culture
    • Entertainment
    • Food & Drink
    • Gaming
    • Style
    • Gen Z
  • Profile
  • OxYou
  • SciTech
  • Green
  • Sport
    • University Sport
    • College Sport
  • Column
  • OxStu in Print
Start typing to see results or hit ESC to close
Oxford culture review Music news
See all results