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‘Under Siege by Women’: Everything We Take for Granted at Oxford

by Lucy Heywood June 29, 2022June 29, 2022

Books That Made Me: Laissez-moi

by Laureline Latour May 26, 2022May 26, 2022

Mixtape Musings: Riot Grrrl

by Cat Tickell May 13, 2022May 13, 2022

Hate men? You can rupture them!

by Shuvashish Thapa March 28, 2022July 29, 2024

‘Ariadne’: How re-telling mythology is impacting feminism

by Grace Dowling February 10, 2022February 10, 2022

“Have you tried contraception?” On menstrual health, mental health, and male doctors

by Helena Aeberli February 10, 2022February 10, 2022

August Review: Six the Musical

by Jessica Steadman August 2, 2021August 2, 2021

In Defence of Bridget Jones

by Jade Calder April 28, 2021April 28, 2021

Maneater: why the ‘femme fatale’ is more destructive than empowering

by Bethan Draycott March 30, 2021March 30, 2021

St Hilda’s Feminist Festival in review: a celebration of women past and present

by Rebecca Hopper March 17, 2021March 17, 2021

Do different languages change the way we think?

Sophie Harrison Dec 4, 2025 5 min read

The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563), public domain

According to the legend of Babel, the existence of different languages on Earth began as a punishment. Humanity, daring to build its tower skyward, was…

Meta-Whorf-asis: on litost and translated fiction

Orla Case Dec 3, 2025 6 min read

Meta-Whorf-asis: on litost and translated fiction

‘The term depicts a feeling “as infinite as an open accordion, a synthesis of grief, sympathy, remorse, and indefinable longing”, which begs the question –…

Having a bath: it’s time to come clean

Matt Donnelly Dec 3, 2025 4 min read

Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Embedded in British culture is a conspiracy of silence around what must be domestic life’s most overrated activity. Mention baths in polite company and faces…

Zootopia? Urban foxes are Oxford’s cleverest companions

Ilse Von Heimburg Dec 2, 2025 3 min read

a fox on a roof in an urban environment

As a visiting student from the United States, I had never seen a fox outside of a zoo before, let alone one in an urban…