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Learning to Like Music That I Like, For Me

30th March 202212th April 2022 Grace Robinson Editor: Ella Johnson, Editor: Iona Wagg, Grace Robinson, hayley williams, Misogyny, Music, paramore, pop music, rock music, Taylor Swift

Grace explores how internalised misogyny and external judgement altered her music listening experience in her younger years, and how she has reclaimed this in the present.

Arts & Culture

“It feels very surreal”: interview with student author Tashie Bhuiyan

13th May 2021 Grace Robinson Arts & Culture, Books, Chloe Gong, Counting down with you, Editor: Rhiannon Jenkins, Grace Robinson, interview, Tashie Bhuiyan

Publishing a book can seem surreal and unrealistic for a lot of students, a dream that they’ve maybe had since childhood. In recent years though, there seems to be an increase in students who have successfully written and published a book, with some even reaching the New York Times Bestseller list.

Arts & Culture Film & TV

The Male Gaze in Hollywood

11th March 202117th March 2021 Grace Robinson Bridgerton, Editor: Zainab Patel, Films, Grace Robinson, Hollywood, Male Gaze, Marvel films, objectification, Queens Gambit, sexualisation

The Male Gaze is a feminist film theory coined by Laura Mulvey that highlights the sexualisation and objectification of women in film while empowering men simultaneously.

Opinion

Modern Feelings On Love: Two Interesting and Different Views

14th February 202117th February 2021 Leicester Student Magazine Georgia Hilton Buckley, Grace Robinson, love, Valentine's, valentine's day, Valentines Special

As Valentine’s day approaches, two writers give their opinions on love from vastly different stances and try and encapsulate the modern attitude towards love.

Arts & Culture Music Opinion

Why WAP was so controversial; an analysis

1st November 202031st March 2021 Grace Robinson Cardi B, Grace Robinson, Megan Thee Stallion, Song

When Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion released WAP in August 2020, there was two reactions: the empowerment of sexuality for anyone who identifies as a woman or non-binary, or that WAP was disgusting and that woman shouldn’t talk about sex in a liberating way.

Grace Robinson