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Nov 24, 2021
Frida Feminist Club
FEATURES|BRUNA GOMES For feminists, Frida is a symbol. Her paintings and ethics are a stronghold for third-wave feminism, intersectional...


Nov 15, 2021
YesOut of Myself
REGULARS|LOUISE REID Old(er) people aren’t too old for study! I’d been 49 when we moved to Australia in 2005. For me, that certainly...


Nov 15, 2021
You Are Here: Macquarie in Lockdown
REGULARS|SALIHA REHANAZ It’s a Monday morning. I wake up to the blaring sound of my alarm and internally scream at myself for the...


Nov 15, 2021
Legally Blonde: What, like being a feminist is hard?
REGULARS|NIKITA BYRNES It is September 2021. New South Wales is still in lockdown, and I am looking for ways to procrastinate some very...


Nov 15, 2021
I Don't Get It: Coercive Control
REGULARS|ELEANOR TAYLOR Domestic Violence isn’t always physical and it’s time we talked honestly about it. What is Coercive Control?...


Nov 15, 2021
Illustrated: Female Identifying Icons
REGULARS|JAIME HENDRIE In the nature of the Illustrated section of Grapeshot, I have compiled an incredibly biased list of...

Nov 11, 2021
Stuck Offshore
NADIA KHAN | NEWS Nadia Khan, an international student from South Africa, speaks about the overwhelming situation and desperately calls...


Nov 3, 2021
The Red Pill: Inside the Minds of the Alt-Right
TIFFANY FONG|FEATURES When I first started on this article, I thought it would be easy and fun. It’s just memes and fascism, what could...


Nov 3, 2021
The Writers Behind the People We Remember
SHANNON DESA|FEATURES “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” When we hear these words, one...


Nov 3, 2021
Pikachu, Use Monetisation!
NATHANIEL LAWSON|FEATURES Nathaniel Lawson unpacks the dark underworld of monetisation schemes in Pokèmon Unite, and it’s SUPER...


Nov 3, 2021
Footnotes in Life, Art and Academia
ASHLEE PASFIELD|FEATURES I have no interest in small talk. I’m much more interested in the footnotes. As a teenager, this interest came...


Nov 3, 2021
The World's On Fire, Dude
LACHLAN HODSON|NEWS With global temperatures rising, droughts getting worse, and nobody doing shit about it, let’s take a depressing look...


Oct 27, 2021
RTP Mob: Yarning Circle
RHYS SAGE|REGULARS Mob: Yarning Circle Footnotes are supposed to lead people to places for further information and reading. I have...


Oct 27, 2021
Consent Matters Macquarie
ELLA SCOTT|FEATURES Trigger warning: article discusses sexual assault. In my fourth and final year at Macquarie University, I am yet to...


Oct 27, 2021
You Are Here: Winston Hills
NIKITA BYRNES|REGULARS Winston Hills: the suburb you’ve never heard of, but most people from Sydney’s inner-West have driven through it...


Oct 27, 2021
I Don't Get It: Lockdown Protestors
ELEANOR TAYLOR|REGULARS It was a nice sunny day on the weekend and I was walking the dog with my parents in Pyrmont and around the...

Oct 25, 2021
No Need to Say Goodbye — a thought process, a memory, a nostalgia.
SOFIA IHSAN | CREATIVES It came to me in waves; the unwinded vacations, yawns and packets of chips and chocolates littered across the...

Oct 25, 2021
Corn thins
OLIVIA CHAN | CREATIVES a dry crack like the cork on the wall a shy snack is enough for the night. they came monthly through the...

Oct 25, 2021
THE POWER OF POETRY
ALEX COVERDALE | CREATIVES A footnote in another’s story Is a title in my own. The power of poetry Is something we’ve never truly known....

Oct 25, 2021
Darkest Night
JADE VAN DARTEL | REPEAT OFFENDERS Providing a sensory experience of murder and mystery Podcasts are the hottest new form of media that,...

Oct 25, 2021
Saving Grace - Schitt’s Creek and the power of positive media
TESSA MARSDEN | REPEAT OFFENDERS “This town might just be your saving grace..." At the end of March 2020, I found myself in a rut. I was...
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