I don’t know where to start in reviewing ‘Mine’ by Emily Merrill. Tragic. Heart breaking. Gripping. Unapologetically beautiful. ‘Mine’ encapsulates themes from abuse, trauma, friendship and ambition in a neat 378 pages. I was all […]
Health is Wealth: Plant-Based Diets and Accessibility
Compassion is not an either-or attribute. You can care about people as well as pigs. Plant milk, tofu and Naked bars. What do all three of these things have in common? Besides the fact that […]
Power to the Young People: An Interview with Claire Napoli
Last week I was fortunate enough to sit down and interview Claire Napoli from Salad Pages, a publishing company aimed at producing literature written by young authors. From experience, I know that it is extremely […]
Post-Grad Fear: Life Beyond a Piece of Paper
Blogs editor Emily talks life after Leeds, and the pressure to have a spotless CV as soon as you leave campus. “Yeah, but a year out isn’t going to look very good on your CV […]
National Novel Writing Month
As soon as the clock strikes twelve on the 31st October, it can mean a number of things. The beginning of the countdown to Christmas, the time to throw out pumpkins that are beginning to […]
ED Awareness: Rethinking Recovery
There is no recipe for eating disorder recovery. Recovery is, for a lot of reasons, the most ambiguous stage of an eating disorder. People will assume that normalcy has resumed, and maybe even doubt that […]
New year detox mentality: the dangers of diet culture
Blogs editor, Emily Merrill, discusses detox and diet culture, arguing that for our well-being, and the well-being of those around us, we need to replace New Year weight-loss goals with self-love resolutions. Men think about […]
Anything but a luxury: periods, and why dignity should be free
At no point during the pasta-filled weeks of my student budget do I think to myself “you know what, I cannot live without some caviar this week”. It’s a luxury. Period. Which is ironic, considering […]
Taylor Swift: the girl we all love to hate
Emily discusses our obsession with the life of celebrities and criticises the misguided entitlement we feel to judge them. It’s 2017, otherwise known as the era of ultimate street cred for saying that you “hate” […]
Mental health: emphasis on invisible
Throughout my teenage years, I have met people with varying forms of mental illness, at varying stages and degrees. There isn’t one definable factor that connects them, and there is no checklist that applies. They […]
Agony aunt: evenings in Leeds
What else is there to do in Leeds in the evenings if you’re not into clubbing? Leeds is a party city, it’s no secret. It can be daunting arriving in a place where the norm […]
The value of young adult literature, and why it transcends age boundaries
It’s summer. Which for most of us, means catching up on the things we miss out on during the academic year, like reading for leisure. I was recently scanning the Young Adult (YA) section of […]