situationships Archives - The Oxford Blue

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

A student with brown hair holding a phone with a text on it reading "Dear Agony Aunt". A banner in pink at the top reads "Agony Aunt"

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Your College Auntie: Nearly There!

by Anonymous Author March 8, 2025March 9, 2025

This image shows a picture of a sunset from an Oxford college, with the building in the foreground.

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Musings of a Media Lover: Love in the Time of Situationships

by Millie Acton February 12, 2024June 26, 2025

Tommy Robinson Appearance at Oxford Union Sparks Mass Protest

Christine Savino Jun 27, 2026 3 min read

Image credit to Thomas Yates, used with permission.

Who Gets to Remember?: When nostalgia becomes dangerous

Isabella Hamilton Dale Jun 21, 2026 7 min read

The wisteria on the wall of Jesus College, Oxford.

“At the individual level, the mismatch between memory and history appears fairly harmless. For the collective, it can be terrible. The present, the only actuality,…

Monoculture isn’t dead, it’s online

Rohit Ghosh Jun 21, 2026 6 min read

A LAN party in the Winter 2004 DreamHack.

Culture feels chaotic right now. The times of communion over music videos on MTV are officially over, and our lives are split across millions of…

In Defence of the Bachelor Life

Isobel Gurnett Jun 20, 2026 5 min read

An anonymous author writes about their experience of being aromantic in a society that values romance above other types of love.