Lived Experience Archives - The Oxford Blue

The regular image used for the 'Not Just a Stereotype' column, featuring a range of people to represent neurodiversity.

The Power of a Label – Not Just A Stereotype

by Dhillon Lalji November 23, 2025November 23, 2025

An image with lots of different names on it.

What’s Really in a Name?

by Liv Ekdawi November 17, 2025November 17, 2025

The regular image for the diaries of a thought son column, showing a castle with a book with the LGBT+ pride flag as its bookmark.

Diaries of a Thought Son: The museum of all my memories

by Jaami Al-Choudhury November 12, 2025November 12, 2025

The regular image used for the 'Not Just a Stereotype' column, featuring a range of people to represent neurodiversity.

Self-Study: Not Just A Stereotype

by Dhillon Lalji November 3, 2025November 3, 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: ‘Amman ya jameela- عمان يا جميلة’

by Jaami Al-Choudhury June 9, 2025June 8, 2025

Purple embroidered brain. Purple represents the colour of epilepsy.

Living with Epilepsy – Part 1

by Flora Prideaux June 4, 2025June 4, 2025

Photo of a child sitting next to her father.

‘I don’t know what to do without you’: Oxford through the lens of anticipatory grief

by Phoebe Broster May 30, 2025May 30, 2025

A photo of Cogden Bridge in Yorkshire in the Autumn.

Much Ado About Nowt: A Yorkshire Lass’s Reflections on Living in the South

by Olivia-Mae Butterfield May 25, 2025May 25, 2025

Street of San Juan, Puerto Rico at night. The streets are dimly lit.

Bad Bunny and Being An Immigrant

by Shixin Zhao May 21, 2025May 20, 2025

A group of students walking under the Oxford Bridge of Sighs at night.

Life as a Visiting Student

by Ngoc Diep (Alice) May 14, 2025May 13, 2025

The Physicist Behind the Turl Street Orchestra: In Conversation with Dr. Felix Tennie

Luke Erly Dec 15, 2025 6 min read

Dr. Felix Tennie stands outside the Radcliffe Camera after our interview.

“If I had no music, I wouldn’t be as productive of a physicist. Whenever I don’t get to make music for a time, I become…

Snow

Nina Sablan Dec 15, 2025 3 min read

Snow

‘If something is frozen we say it’s unchanging — that it stays.’ Nina Sablan’s creative piece about snow and its effects on our landscape. Image…

Who am I? Finding my identity between two languages

Mai Nguyen Dec 13, 2025 4 min read

Duke Humfrey's library

That person, no matter what they do in the present, will always be defined by what they did. In the country where I was born,…

Outside OX1 Week 8: End of Term Special

Lola Dunton-Milenkovic Dec 12, 2025 22 min read

Image Credit by Evie Fairclough-Kay

The Editor’s Note As the end of term is finally here, many will be lacing up their skiing boots; or enduring painstaking journeys home around…