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Author Archives: Megan Lee

Megan is Video Editor, but she likes writing anything that she can relate back to her history degree and pretend it's 'revision'. Outside of academics, she plays violin with the Hertford College Music Society, is secretary for the Oxford University Historical Re-enactment Society, and enjoys walking her dogs who are in fact the cutest in the world (unofficial award).

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Non-Binary Finery: ‘I, Joan’ Review

by Megan Lee December 18, 2022December 23, 2022
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Medicalising Maskne: Why we need to stop treating acne as a beauty issue

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Laïcité cannot justify French Islamophobia

by Megan Lee April 21, 2021April 21, 2021
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RuPaul’s Drag Race UK 2: The Rise of the Instagram Queen

by Megan Lee March 19, 2021March 19, 2021
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Travel Strangers: Life Lessons from Ljubljana

by Megan Lee September 20, 2020September 20, 2020
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Why we don’t need to panic about the plague in Inner Mongolia

by Megan Lee July 17, 2020July 18, 2021

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“I was always a muse, a magician’s trick, bending my own image to enhance his own. He seemed to compliment me only if the words fit…

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