“The services failed me”: investigation discovers university giving cold shoulder to vulnerable students
CW: suicide, racial violence “The funding and structure of the services failed me.” These are the words of ‘Hannah’, a current second-year student, who, in winter 2019, contacted university support…
Caroline Flack’s death: another indication of bias in the media?
Grief and rage took over the public when Caroline Flack’s death was announced on February 15th. Many expressed that the former television presenter’s life shouldn’t have ended when it did…
Male suicide and the ‘crisis of masculinity’
Content warning: suicide. One could say that the concept of masculinity is like Fight Club: the first rule is that you don’t talk about it. Indeed, this curious comparison is…
This Week in History: Sylvia Plath is born
October 27 marks the 85th anniversary of the birth of Sylvia Plath, a poet and novelist whose work retains an iconic status even 54 years after her death. Plath was…
Fragile Man
In recent years, we have found ourselves talking more often about the importance of improving mental health and removing the unfair stigma associated with conditions like depression. Yet there are…