• Oxford News
    • Interviews
  • Opinion
    • Features
  • Global Affairs
    • Outside OX1
    • Across the Aisle
  • Identity
    • LGBTQ+
    • Feminism
    • Disability
    • ERM (Ethnic and Religious Minorities)
    • Diaries of a Thought Son
    • (Dis)abled
    • Not Just A Stereotype
    • Words of a Multiple
  • Environment
  • Sports
  • Culture
    • Film & TV
    • Music
    • Theatre
    • Fashion
    • Literature
    • Internet Culture
  • The Blueprint
  • Lifestyle
    • Health and Wellbeing
    • Relationships
    • Travel
    • Food
    • Love Comes out of The Blue
  • Columns
    • Wine Waffle
    • Beyond the Bubble
    • Love Letters
    • Musings of a Media Lover
    • Beyond the Footnotes
    • Heal Between the Lines
    • Admissions of a Rusticated Student
    • Objectifying Oxford
    • SaTired: Observations of a Finalist
    • Your College Auntie
  • Profiles
  • The Bluebell
  • Freshers’ Guides
    • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2024
    • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2023
    • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2022
    • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2021
  • Contact Us
  • Mailing List
  • 5 Years of The Blue
  • Alumni – can you help us?
  • Instagram
  • Facebook Page
  • Linkedin
Skip to content
  • Instagram
  • Facebook Page
  • Linkedin
The Oxford Blue

The Oxford Blue

Oxford University's independent newspaper | A new voice for a new decade | Est. 2020..

  • Oxford News
    • Interviews
  • Opinion
    • Features
  • Global Affairs
    • Outside OX1
    • Across the Aisle
  • Identity
    • LGBTQ+
    • Feminism
    • Disability
    • ERM (Ethnic and Religious Minorities)
    • Diaries of a Thought Son
    • (Dis)abled
    • Not Just A Stereotype
    • Words of a Multiple
  • Environment
  • Sports
  • Culture
    • Film & TV
    • Music
    • Theatre
    • Fashion
    • Literature
    • Internet Culture
  • The Blueprint
  • Lifestyle
    • Health and Wellbeing
    • Relationships
    • Travel
    • Food
    • Love Comes out of The Blue
  • Columns
    • Wine Waffle
    • Beyond the Bubble
    • Love Letters
    • Musings of a Media Lover
    • Beyond the Footnotes
    • Heal Between the Lines
    • Admissions of a Rusticated Student
    • Objectifying Oxford
    • SaTired: Observations of a Finalist
    • Your College Auntie
  • Profiles
  • The Bluebell
  • Freshers’ Guides
    • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2024
    • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2023
    • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2022
    • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2021
  • Contact Us
  • Mailing List
  • 5 Years of The Blue
  • Alumni – can you help us?

Author Archives: Alice Garnett

Alice is our resident sex columnist whose interests include pints, pink, and all things love-related. When she's not evangelising Singledom she's busy hyping up her East Midlands home town, demystifying bisexuality, and writing for other publications such as Lithium Magazine and Adolescent Content.

Posted inColumns

Nice to Meet You, I’m (Still) a Slut! Season Finale

by Alice Garnett March 19, 2021July 18, 2021
Posted inColumns

Nice To Meet You, I’m A Slut!: A Rough Guide to BDSM

by Alice Garnett March 14, 2021March 14, 2021
Posted inColumns

Nice To Meet You, I’m A Slut!: An Ode to Boundaries

by Alice Garnett March 8, 2021March 8, 2021
Posted inColumns

Nice To Meet You, I’m A Slut!: Ask Me Anything!

by Alice Garnett February 23, 2021February 23, 2021
Posted inColumns

Nice To Meet You, I’m A Slut: Valentine’s Day Special

by Alice Garnett February 14, 2021February 14, 2021
Posted inColumns

Nice To Meet You, I’m A Slut: Overcoming My Internalised Biphobia

by Alice Garnett February 8, 2021February 8, 2021
Posted inColumns

Nice To Meet You, I’m A Slut: ‘Post Nut Clarity’ versus ‘The Dick Haze’, Gendered Responses to Sex

by Alice Garnett January 26, 2021February 11, 2022
Posted inColumns

Nice To Meet You, I’m A Slut: Monogamy, Is It Dead Yet?

by Alice Garnett January 14, 2021January 14, 2021
Posted inColumns

Nice To Meet You, I’m A Slut!: A Guide to “Keeping it Casual”

by Alice Garnett December 23, 2020December 23, 2020
Posted inOxford News

Nice to Meet You, I’m a Slut!: Ask Me Anything 2

by Alice Garnett December 10, 2020December 10, 2020

Posts pagination

1 2 3 Older posts

Popular Posts

  • Hands holding a phone, clicking on the TikTok app icon
    TikTok and the Death of the Attention Span 
  • Christmas: The Environmental Impacts
  • Holding Sylvia Plath accountable
  • An indoor rock climbing gym.
    Why does everyone suddenly want to rock climb?
  • The Legacy of Studio Ghibli
  • Relationships in Films: a reflection on RomComs
  • Nice To Meet You, I’m A Slut!: A Guide to “Keeping it Casual”
  • Calling All Witches: Justice for The Owl House
  • BookTok Fast Fiction: Is Speed Over Substance The End of Thoughtful Literature?
  • “Music today is worse than it was in the past”: The Debate

Growing Up: The Beginning of an Oxford Experience 

Alice Garnett Dec 9, 2025 6 min read
picture of the Radcliffe Camera and surrounding buildings at night

“It is not a loss to forget some of my old routines and habits, but a privilege to learn new ones, and to share my…

Investigating the Kidlington Waste Pile 

Alice Garnett Dec 7, 2025 5 min read
Investigating the Kidlington Waste Pile 

On 21 November 2025, between the river Cherwell and the A34, the Environmental Agency declared the presence of a 150m (490ft) long and 6m (20ft)…

The society trap: when finding yourself becomes losing yourself

Alice Garnett Dec 7, 2025 3 min read
Source: Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

At this year’s Freshers’ Fair, I signed up for tennis and touch rugby with the unmistakable arrogance of someone who has never experienced the workload…

Rare aesthetic: being humbled by study influencers

Alice Garnett Dec 6, 2025 5 min read
An image of the Radcliffe Camera against a blue sky

“Whilst I was spending hours in the library on one essay, they were sauntering through assignments in infuriatingly short time-stamped minutes.” Téa Sand talks about…

© 2025 The Oxford Blue Student Newspaper CIC | A new voice for a new decade | Est. 2020. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy
  • Instagram
  • Facebook Page
  • Linkedin
Go to mobile version