Hated in our Nations
Spoilers for episode 6 of season 3 of Black Mirror below. Civilian casualties are as common as...
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Category: ARTSCHOL 100 2020
It’s a cutthroat business
Yes I googled ‘CEO stock photos’ what about it?
Read MorePositionality and Polarisation in American Politics
I had never realised how vast the qualities used to define your identity could be until we talked about positionality in class. How certain experiences, family legacies, and interests are stacked upon one another and used to...
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“This is me, Eliza Thornberry, part of your average family.”
Weirdly enough my favourite show as a kid was ‘The Wild Thornberrys’ and I would be lying if I said it didn’t change my life. It aired from 1998 to 2004 on Nickelodeon and the movie came out in 2002. If you haven’t had the...
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Non-Historians Give Historiography a Go
In addition to conflict, this year, I have picked up on another overarching theme which seems to...
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Spheres of Influence
I should feel bad, but I don’t. Or maybe it’s the other way around?
Read MoreQuentin Tarantino: The Art v Artist Conundrum
When I was 16, my dad introduced me to Tarantino’s Kill Bill. It felt revolutionary. From then on, I was hooked on Tarantino films, both as father-daughter bonding and because they fueled my love of film. But,...
Read More*women* and my positionality on feminism
Being a women (as I’m sure we can all agree) is hard enough as it is. Now, with growing globalisation and ‘modernity’, we get to grapple with the conflicts of living our lives and other women living theirs. Of course, there is...
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Labels and Positionality
Of all the sessions we had this year, one of the most impactful for me was Dr. Madhavi...
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‘The chaste and the unchaste’ – Virginia Woolf’s and Katherine Mansfield’s heated relationship
Friendships are complicated, full of conflict, love and, hopefully, lots of fun. They encouraged the sexual escapades of Percy Shelley and Lord Byron and the riotous drinking excursions of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tragically the relationships between literary women have been side-lined …
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