Culture

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

"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.