The Camera’s Gaze: Politics of Photography
Photography is always a deliberate act. One of including and excluding, of focusing and defocusing. Of picking and cropping, colouring, fix
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- Jun 7, 2022
- 4 min
Chuck Taylor All-Stars Hang from A Chandelier: Pop-Culture and the Identity of Streetwear
Walk through the main roads of any metropolitan-esque city and the playful slashes of graffiti will welcome you, burgeoning in colour on the
- Apr 13, 2022
- 6 min
The Architecture of a Social Crisis
Climate change’s disproportionate impact on poorer neighbourhoods On the most fundamental level, the impacts of climate change are...
- Dec 3, 2021
- 11 min
Not Just a Pretty Face: A Deep Dive Into the Beauty Industry
The concept of “beauty products” has been around for thousands of years. From castor oil balm by ancient Egyptians to skin creams by the...
- Sep 17, 2021
- 1 min
Indian Textiles in European Art: A Colonial History
The pervasion of the colonial attitude into literary texts is evident in Dickens’s sophisticated prose with its acerbic imperialist underton
- Aug 23, 2021
- 6 min
An Easy Target: The Lavender Scare of 1950s
“126 homosexuals fired from the state department”, “Dr Luther King is shot dead”, “17 reds captured” and “How to spot a possible homo”, all
- Jul 18, 2021
- 7 min
What’s Left of When We Swam Across Time: The Third Wave of Feminism and Mitski’s Song-writing
Townie crescendos into its last verse and the overwhelming instrumentals deepen the lyrics as Mitski pronounces, “I’m gonna be what my body
- Jun 20, 2021
- 6 min
Fast Fashion is Crippling the Developing World
In an age that exalts the value of consumption to an egregiously high pedestal, the consequences of purchasing clothing have become increasi
- Mar 27, 2021
- 5 min
"Me Love You Long Time" and the Legacy of East Asian Representation in Cultural Media
East Asian cultural appropriation has been living under a veneer of acceptability for centuries. Let's break it down.
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