To Be a Woman: A Review and Interview
CW: Sexual assault 99.7 per cent of women in the UK have faced violence, whether it’s in the form of assault, harassment or rape. This is a statistic used in…
Interview with EUSA Presidential Candidate, Fredrik Mohr
Among the candidates for the current EUSA Presidential election is third-year student Fredrik Mohr, a student who has hitherto had little involvement in student politics, but is concerned that there…
University of Edinburgh accused of failing to support survivors of sexual assault
CW: discussion of sexual assault Aarti Mukhedkar, a student at the University of Edinburgh, has spoken out after their sexual assault case was dismissed by the Student Disciplinary Committee (SDC),…
This week in public… I was leered at in the street
I was walking to dinner with my parents and we stopped to cross the road at Toll Cross where a man was stood waiting in front of us. He turned…
Walking in the Dark
CW: Sexual Assault “Don’t walk in the Meadows at night,” everyone told me. I ignored them. Sarah Everard’s death has ricocheted around the world. From Kent, the news of her…
Separating myself from ‘Lad Culture’
Cw: sexual harassment and assault. Tragedy, once we process the pain, can lead to profound realisations about the world around us. Both a personal loss, and that of Sarah Everard,…
To all the men we’ve known before
CW: sexual assault I want to tell you what is normal for women and non-binary people. To be regularly told what we must do to ‘keep ourselves safe’. Don’t walk…
When will women ever feel safe to walk anywhere alone?
CW: gender-based violence, sexual harassment If you identify as female, then I know I speak for us all when I say that Sarah Everard’s tragic case has devastated me. I…