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Author Archives: Isabel Valovin

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by Isabel Valovin March 12, 2025April 14, 2025
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5 Years of The Blue: A Letter from the Editors-in-Chief

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‘New Year, (not so) New Me’

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Lost for Words: Storytelling As The Solution To Oracy?

Isabel Valovin Nov 19, 2025 9 min read
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When was the last time someone told you a story?  I mean, truly told you a story – not using a book as a crutch,…

Rooted and Restless: Eco-Anxiety and the Inheritance of a Collapsing Earth

Isabel Valovin Nov 19, 2025 5 min read
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As climate systems collapse, biodiversity vanishes, and the seasons turn strange, the rising anxiety among young people isn’t a disorder. It is a diagnosis.

Rare Aesthetic: getting your first essay back and realising you kind of suck

Isabel Valovin Nov 19, 2025 5 min read
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“I threw in as much secondary criticism as I could find, hoping desperately that Derrida and Calvino could drown out my voice, or lack thereof.”…

Protesters Gather in Oxford to Protest the Proscription of ‘Palestine Action’

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On Tuesday 18 November, a group of around 30 protesters met outside the Clarendon Building in central Oxford to protest the government’s proscription of the…

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