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Scenes With Girls at the Burton Taylor Studio: Reviewed

Kiaya Phillips Jun 11, 2026 6 min read
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“Are they safe, or dangerously codependent? Is this life, paradoxically within and without heteronormativity, sustainable? Is this real girlhood? Is this enough?” Aimee Dixon reviews…

Shell Shock at Corpus: Bernard Wins Trifecta in 2026 Tortoise Race

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Bernard the Tortoise won not once, but three times, at the 2026 Tortoise Fair at Corpus Christi. Meanwhile, there was room for humans to get…

The Exportation of British Misogyny

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Spotlight – All work and no play makes an exhausted Oxford student

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