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Cousin, for you
ASHLEY DUCK | CREATIVES you are gone and past and yet passing tones on warm breath say never forgotten to me, you are the tide sweeping,...
Nov 27, 2021


I’m in love with the shape of you
OLIVIA CHAN | CREATIVES It was overplayed at one point, Blending into our social fabric Like small talk he made at a pit stop On the way...
Nov 27, 2021


The Broken Column
SWAGATALAKSHMI ROYCHOWDHURY | CREATIVES An adaptation of Robert Frost’s poem ‘A Passing Glimpse.’ Trigger warning: Mentions sexual...
Nov 27, 2021


Monash University Student App to Connect Students During the Pandemic
NIKITA BYRNES | NEWS Monash University student Richard Osakwe was tired of having to constantly re-adjust to uni life when Victoria was...
Nov 26, 2021


Book Review: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
MADI SCOTT | REPEAT OFFENDERS Poor Ernie Diaz. Goddamn Don Adler. Gullible Mick Riva. Clever Rex North. Brilliant, Kind hearted, Tortured...
Nov 24, 2021


Is It Time?
CREATIVES|KAVERI TALUKDER White rain Against a dark black sky. Muddy dirt Clings to my Worn-out shoes. In I walk To a mirrored hallway,...
Nov 24, 2021


The Rise and Fall of the Sukeban Girls
FEATURES|TIFFANY FONG In the 1960s, Japan saw an increase in all-female street gangs, mostly made up of teenage girls. These gangs are...
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 24, 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 15, 2021


Stuck Offshore
NADIA KHAN | NEWS Nadia Khan, an international student from South Africa, speaks about the overwhelming situation and desperately calls...
Nov 11, 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...
Nov 3, 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
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