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How Do Mermaids Have Babies? (And other questions your children are bound to ask someday)
Nirvana Prasad answers… or evades your burning questions in this comedic study of mythological reproduction “You see, when a mummy...
Nov 22, 2024


Dating Advice For Lonely Men (A Confession)
Women have been given unsolicited dating advice for far too long. In this article, Sarah Sol turns the tables. Dear Lonely Man, Yes...
Nov 22, 2024


Circus Freaks
Kayleigh Greig highlights the top names in contortion and calisthenics to inspire your inner acrobat As a teenager, I once tried out...
Nov 22, 2024


Chemistry Class: Tampon Edition
Tanisha Shah delves into the mind-itching world of chemistry and the recent study citing the presence of metals in tampons Who hasn’t...
Nov 22, 2024
what do persimmons taste like
Of course persimmons aren’t trying to taste like apples or pears or a strange mix of the two, or like either of them. Being, tasting like...
Nov 22, 2024
Threads of Desire
We move as one, our bodies intertwine as we do a dance we’re all too familiar with. Your fingers wrap around my neck like a necklace,...
Nov 22, 2024
One Last Summer
I leap along the sand in my salty, damp swimming costume. The beach is almost deserted and stretches longer than time. I am eleven years...
Nov 22, 2024
Getting to the Bottom of It
They say when in Rome, do as the Romans do. But I’m not in Rome, I’m at level 4 of Maxforce Tower, and in this jungle of paperwork and...
Nov 22, 2024
Do you actually like me?
Or your perception of me? I am your fag. I am your dog. I am your jester. I am the one who entertains, yet never reveals dimension. I am...
Nov 22, 2024
The Word of Flesh
i. The word of Flesh is easily learnt when eager tongues converse. They speaketh: cling to me, sing to me. Feel the weight of them press...
Nov 22, 2024
Can you see me? Because I see you.
I liked to watch. When my mind drifted from the work in front of me, I’d stare and observe the tufts of blond hair that grew from his...
Nov 22, 2024
Beauty, Sleeping
She’s beautiful when she’s asleep. She’s always beautiful, but when she’s awake she shines so brightly that it blinds all around her....
Nov 22, 2024
A Drop of Heaven
Trigger warning: blood and gore “There is something so divine about drinking from a glass that is at least a hundred years older than you...
Nov 22, 2024


The Seduction Of All Things Horrific, Ugly and Bloody.
Deputy Editor Zaynab Khuder sinks her teeth into the idea of what a monster really is, and how horror films can allow women to become...
Nov 22, 2024


That Freakish Thing Called Gender Envy
Ash muses on their experience with gender envy. As a transmasc non-binary, I am pretty familiar with gender envy and the feeling and...
Nov 22, 2024
Slut Me Out…Or Not? The End of the Modern Sexual Revolution.
Have you ever been victim to a lukewarm and half-baked situationship? Editorial Assistant Bianca Chatterjee reflects on her experiences...
Nov 22, 2024


Is somebody going to match my freak?
Amisha Piplani reflects on her cross-cultural identity but also her yearning sense of freedom to belong. “I wish I could match their...
Nov 22, 2024


Dark Romance: We Need to Talk
Features Section Editor Sophie Poredos puts down her vibrator to question the phenomenon of ‘dark romance’ and its normalisation of...
Nov 22, 2024


Microsoft-CrowdStrike Outage: your device ran into a problem and needs to restart (on repeat)
Editor-in-Chief, Clara Kristanda, and News Section Editor, Beth Nicholls, delve into all the details about the Microsoft-CrowdStrike...
Nov 22, 2024


Rugby League Girls Making History
Section Editor, Beth Nicholls, sums up the 2024 Women’s State of Origin series, and talks about the growth of women’s rugby league in...
Nov 22, 2024
How the F1 2024 World Championship Stands as of the Start of Summer Break
Looking for a new sport to entertain you for the latter part of 2024? Look no further - Beth Nicholls will get you all caught up on...
Nov 22, 2024


Kamala Harris: Roots of a Cultural Femininomenon
Sarah Shahid breaks down all the important information surrounding the upcoming US Election, where current Vice President, Kamala Harris,...
Nov 22, 2024


I Am Sherlocked: A Review of Sherlock Holmes Chapter One & The Awakened
Zaynab Khuder draws on the universal recognisability of a household name to detail the successes of some of her favourite virtual games;...
Oct 2, 2024
Grapeshot acknowledges the Wallumattagal clan, of the Dharug nation as the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and meet. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded, no treaty was signed, and would like to pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging.
We would like to extend those respects to all First Nations people reading. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.
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