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  • INTIMACY 2.0: DECODING THE DIGITAL AGE OF SEX AND RELATIONSHIPS

    INTIMACY 2.0: DECODING THE DIGITAL AGE OF SEX AND RELATIONSHIPS

    CW: Sexual violence and pornography  ‘You look lonely, I can fix that…’ – Joi, Blade Runner 2049  As the cosmos of tech exponentially engulfs every aspect of our lives, the behaviours most intrinsic to human nature struggle as they are being overridden. Our innate lusts to mate and find companionship links back to our primal


  • JOSIE PERRY AND FRANCIS JONES: THE THIEVES

    JOSIE PERRY AND FRANCIS JONES: THE THIEVES

    Poems should echo and re-echo against each other. They should create resonances. They cannot live alone, anymore than we can.  – Jack Spicer The Thieves, a collaborative exhibition shown in February at the CCA, was a partnership of coloured drawings by artist Josie Perry and a science fiction text by Francis Jones. Josie Perry is


  • WOULD IT BE QUICKER TO LIGHT THE BEACONS?

    WOULD IT BE QUICKER TO LIGHT THE BEACONS?

    Hello? *ring ring* HELLO? *ring ring* Is anyone there?… This is an all too familiar scenario, right? Trying to arrange a date, a coffee, or to find out if there was reading for the seminar you have in 20 minutes. Despite us all having a phone, we are patched, pied, or left alone at the


  • TOYS: THE HISTORY OF THE GOOD VIBRATIONS

    TOYS: THE HISTORY OF THE GOOD VIBRATIONS

    Since the dawn of humanity, the Cambrian explosion wasn’t the only evolutionary burst of life to report. As we explored the world around us, we quickly began to utilise it to bring us closer to sexual gratification. The history of sex toys reaches much further back in time than the utilisation of technology in our


  • UNCREDITED GENIUS: STOLEN SUCCESS IN STEM

    UNCREDITED GENIUS: STOLEN SUCCESS IN STEM

    The prosperity, innovation and advancements in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths or STEM, is recognised by annual award ceremonies most notably the Nobel Prize. There have been 346 Nobel Prizes awarded in the Science Categories: Physics, Chemistry and Medicine or Physiology. 26 to Women. 320 to Men.  The world of “STEM” has an infamous reputation


  • BYTE BACK: NAVIGATING THE CYBER RACE

    BYTE BACK: NAVIGATING THE CYBER RACE

    In October of last year, the British Library fell victim to a cyber-attack and user data was stolen, harvested, and auctioned off on the dark web for a starting price of £600,000. The library refused to pay and was left with no WiFi, no computer access, no website, and no phone lines, and they are


  • GUM X READER

    GUM X READER

    CW: SMUT He bites his lip and his eyes darken… ‘Y/N, don’t look at me with those eyes.’ ‘What are you going to do about it?’ He stalks towards me and places his hand on my cheek. His digits run across my face and then he- ‘DINNER TIME!’ Dirty stories found on AO3, Wattpad, Tumblr


  • PERSCRIPTION FOR EQUITY

    PERSCRIPTION FOR EQUITY

    What are girls made of? Hormones, Hysteria And everything nice… Embarking on the journey through the man-made medical maze is a daunting challenge for many women; there is an undeniable history of perpetual misunderstanding, mystification, and misdiagnosis of women’s health issues. Harking back to the wandering womb in ancient greek medical texts, the Salem witch