It says a lot about our current lifestyle that my housemates and I were excited to take a trip to the new (ish) sustainable Asda, but then I guess that’s just the nature of lockdown. The Leeds trial store is the only one in the UK, designed to help shoppers reduce, reuse and recycle with ease.
A Case for De-stigmatising STIs
Like most topics about our bodies, discussions surrounding STIs have been significantly stigmatised. With increasing openness, when will we start discussing STIs without shame?
Studio Ghibli and their quest for environmentalism
With a near 100% positive audience and critic response on Rotten Tomatoes, it’s no wonder that Studio Ghibli’s “Spirited Away” has made its name as one of the best anime films out there. Studio Ghibli […]
Climate migration – a green incentive for the selfish?
The climate is changing at a rapid, devastating rate. As parts of the world become uninhabitable, people are being forced to move across the world to seek a safe place to live. Beanna Olding investigates.
Freshers’ Week Soulmates: The Lie
“for me, the most nerve-wracking expectation of Freshers’ week was that I would find the friends that I would bond with for life”
Stop gaslighting the US protestors
Ever heard of the term “tone policing”? I hadn’t until a few days ago, nose buried in Layla Saad’s fantastically eye-opening Me and White Supremacy. Tone policing is the act of taking offence when a […]
Life’s Too Short for Good Books
18 months. That’s how long it took me to finish “Wuthering Heights”. 18 months. Usually, I’m pretty quick to finish a book (by no means is that a flex; why do people boast about how […]
Not Your Usual Habit Building Article
Tick. A swooping, satisfying, drag-your-pen-all-over-the-page tick. I smile as I look down at the neat little habit-tracker I’ve created for myself, smug in my two consecutive days of waking up at 6:30am to meditate. The […]
The Plastic-Free Lifestyle; Is It Enough?
For those of you who have had the pleasure of travelling to South East Asia – which is far more people than I anticipated before I came to university, turns out I’m not that special […]
Adiós, Tampon Tax!
The highly contested and wrongful tax on tampons- till now dubbed as “non-essential, luxury items” by those who have absolutely no right to claim so- is finally being removed, as announced on the 2020 budget. […]
Getting Too Pretty? – Bullet Journals on Instagram
If I mention bullet journals, or “bujo” as they’re sometimes abbreviated to, I bet pretty images of colour-coordinated and meticulously organised cutesy notebooks covered in artsy doodles that you’ve seen on Instagram come to mind. […]