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Ovary It: Of Course I’m Angry

by Issi Marklew May 13, 2025May 13, 2025

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Love Letters: Grey Hair

by Lucy Pollock May 11, 2025May 11, 2025

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Ugly Feelings: The Sting and The Shove

by Briony Arnott May 10, 2025June 4, 2025

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‘Is it better to speak or to die?’: Diaries of a Thought Son

by Jaami Al-Choudhury May 7, 2025May 6, 2025

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Your College Auntie: End of Term

by Anonymous Author March 23, 2025March 23, 2025

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Love Letters: Goodbye Hilary!

by Lucy Pollock March 23, 2025March 23, 2025

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You are not a firework. You are a torchbearer.

by Mili Thakrar March 20, 2025March 20, 2025

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The Ten-Minute Night Out

by Eleanor Ware March 18, 2025March 18, 2025

An oxford building in the background, a book in front with a LGBTQ pride flag as a bookmark. It is a symbol for queer academia.

Diaries of a Thought Son

Diaries of a thought son: ‘Handsome but not my type’

by Jaami Al-Choudhury March 17, 2025March 17, 2025

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Objectifying Oxford – Varsity Signs

by Antonia Rogers March 16, 2025March 16, 2025

How jarring can silence really be?

Sophia Mitas Mar 11, 2026 4 min read

How jarring can silence really be?

“I wonder whether this need to complement every menial task with music is a way to convince myself that every minute of my time is…

Outside OX1 Week 7: Iran

Lola Dunton-Milenkovic Mar 9, 2026 18 min read

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Welcome back to another issue of Outside OX1! This week, the news has been dominated by one rather nuanced and complicated story: Iran. As such,…

Is Nuclear Energy the Future?

Holly Neaves Mar 9, 2026 7 min read

Is Nuclear Energy the Future?

Depending on who you ask, you will always receive different views about the role that nuclear energy will play in the future.

Who is a Terrorist in 2026?

Elana Roberts Mar 8, 2026 17 min read

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Terrorist. Are we allowing our fear of what this word represents to make us complicit in the growing imposition on free speech? Or worse, as…