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Contributor Sora Al-Baghdadi waxes poetically about the beauty in the pain of yearning for a love that she’s still yet to uncover. *** Because love can burn like a cigarette And leave you with nothing *** It's all so stupid. Ugh. Looking around campus, all I see is loving couples. Hand in hand strolling, sneaking loving looks between tuts, and whispering god-knows what in crowded rooms. It's all so sickening. I suppose part of it is because I entered uni with the promise t

Contributor Micheline Chen reflects on a series of childhood crushes, taking readers back to a simpler time where puppy love was an emotional rollercoaster, and everything had high stakes. *Real names have been changed in this memoir A guy slipped into French class late in the first year of secondary school. The door was at the very back of the classroom, and I sat closest to it. Brown hair, brown eyes, class clown—unanimously the best-looking boy in the entire grade. I remem

Contributor Georgia Sullivan guides us through how knowing and mastering speaking your partner’s love language is the key to the ultimate sensual experience. You may have heard of the love languages before as a way of understanding the best ways to receive love and how to display your love for another person. It’s important to appreciate that people are going to have different love languages than you, even if they are your true love [2]. The love languages consist of Words of

Editorial Assistance Navdha Thakkar lingers on the magnitude of love and yearning through the lens of Bollywood films and her favourite romantic melodies. There is a moment, and if you have loved someone you know the one, where the ordinary world becomes unbearable with meaning. A particular song comes on, and you have to sit down. You catch a scent in the air, cologne or rain or something baking, and you are somewhere else entirely. Flooded. Undone. Surprised by the sheer vo

Editorial Assistant Elizabete Lasmane explores the flurry of anxiety and anticipation that accompanies her visions of The One, and whether they’re The Wrong One. “What if when they come over, it’s going to be the best night ever? Or the worst? Or you’ll fall in love and get married? Or they’ll never text you again? Or you’ll ghost them? How will they see you: as cute and beautiful, or weird and strange?” are the thoughts EVERY girl has ever thought at any point in her relatio

Deputy Editor Chantelle Mackintosh examines the outrage behind Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend album art and asks why femme pop icons need to relinquish their sexuality to be respectable and admired. This article started as a collaboration between myself and former Editorial Assistant, Helio, in 2025. While they are no longer at Grapeshot, this article would not exist without them <3 What happens when a child star grows up to become an adult icon? This is the question I

Section Editor Bianca Chatterjee discusses her fascination with Heated Rivalry (2025), specifically how one demographic in particular has been especially entranced by this steamy queer romance. Being openly and unapologetically vulnerable is an expression of bravery and courage. Carefully restrained yearning reaching climaxing into a passionate monologue in the rain is what I’ve always dreamed of. Being the object of your beloved’s affection is one thing, but the act of lovin

Section Editor Siya Pujari scrutinises the present ignorance of environmental devastation emerging from acts of war and its harsh impact on the climate crisis In the current age, all actions now undertaken by any military exist in the context of a climate emergency. The political nuance surrounding the latest attacks on Iran, spearheaded by the United States (‘US’), has clouded the discussion of a crucial topic – the climate impact of mass war crimes orchestrated by nations s

Editorial Assistant Maryam Bokhari summarises the focal government actions and public discourse surrounding the current fuel insecurity in Australia With fuel prices rising due to the US-Israel war on Iran, Australians are recommended to work from home in an effort to control the national oil supply. As of 21 March 2026, the most expensive petrol in Sydney was in Lewisham, at just over $2.79 per litre, with the nation’s average sitting at $2.45 [1]. At least 42 New South Wale

Editorial Assistant Shreya Arora recaps the tantalising tale of lone adventurer Strange Catman in his captivating journey across the terrain of the Australian land A Japanese adventurer known as ‘Strange Catman’ has successfully completed an approximately 6,000 km walk across Australia. He arrived at the Sydney Opera House on 14 March 2026 after nearly two years on the road. Dressed in a full cat costume and pushing a wheelbarrow, ‘Catman,’ also known as Kentaro Jin, began hi

Macquarie Student Yvone Inall shares the monstrously bewitching details about the upcoming and unmissable on-campus Halloween event Once again, the Gale History Museum comes to the party with a signature event for Halloween. For the past few years, the spooky season has been an opportunity for Macquarie students to come together with the community to celebrate the spookier side of museum life. Our theme this year is Monstrous! And we’ll be exploring aspects of monstrosity in

Editorial Assistant Amy Shelton details some of the excellent opportunities for Macquarie students to explore any and all of their personal interests through campus clubs and societies If you’re not already studying your passion, or even if you are, why not let that passion run wild by spending your free time immersed in your passions? Why not also engage with like-minded students who also share that same passion? Macquarie University has a diverse range of societies to suit

Editorial Assistant Alicja Krotofil presents Macquarie University’s Psychology student group, the wonderful MacqPsych, and the current executive team at the helm of the club Macquarie University has countless student societies that allow students to engage in topics that interest them and make friends. Today I want to shine the spotlight onto one of the largest student societies—that currently has over 3000 members—and was also the winner of the MQU Student Group of The Year

Editorial Assistant Alicja Krotofil, reviews Emerald Fennel’s titillating film "Wuthering Heights” examining its sensual shadows, tempestuous romance, and lush gothic decadence. Warning: This article contains mild spoilers for both the film and the novel I would like to preface this with a quote directly from Emerald Fennel during an interview where she’s asked to explain the quotation marks around the title: “You can’t adapt a book as dense and complicated and difficult as t

Editorial Assistant, Martha Florence brushes away the cobwebs of misogynism from Friday the 13th This February, we were very lucky to have a Friday that fell on the thirteenth. Yes, I said lucky. There are many acts of micro-feminism I thoroughly enjoy flaunting as obnoxiously as feasibly possible, but my absolute favourite is revelling in anything that includes the number thirteen. Misogyny has messed up a lot for us. Wowie, shock-horror. I’d like to use this Veiled women’

Editorial Assistant, Katrina Wang, examines lace-making’s unknown origins, pulling loose the myths to reveal the women who wove history in thread. Lace making has an incredibly rich history and is more than just a simple, decorative hobby. When making lace by hand, it quickly becomes evident the unparalleled skill required; endless patience, great skill and attention to detail, the intricacies of the art making is one of the hardest needle arts there is. Like a spider spinnin

Deputy Editor Niamh McGonnell-Hall unearths the gothic pulse of Mary Shelley’s cinematic wonder, from stitched flesh to silver-screen immortality Please note that this article contains spoilers for the movie Frankenstein (2025) We meet again, my dear readers, for another gothic piece. For this year’s women’s issue Veiled, I shall be introducing you to the original Gothic heroine: Mary Shelley, and discussing her work’s recent film adaptation, the 2025 Guillermo del Toro film

Hungry for recommendations? Editor-in-Chief Kayleigh Greig brews a stew of all the most grim and gruesome artists, authors and areas. Warning: This piece discusses real and imagined murder in detail. Music: Flower Face “In the morning, I’ll love the mangled bits of you.”—Flower Face, ‘Cornflower Blue’ Her voice may seem as sweet as her name, yet her lyrics are anything but. Flower Face’s songs descend like a spell, hushing all chatter as no audience can do anything but listen

News Section Editor Siya Pujari, ruminates on the criticism surrounding Rachel Zegler, where talent takes a back seat to the tired spectacle of tearing women down For this issue’s Culture and Her Criticism column, we are going to be talking about the one and only Rachel Zegler, who at one time was the most disliked female celebrity in the cultural zeitgeist. For those of you who have missed her rise in Hollywood, she first entered the public eye by beating 30,000 other auditi

Editorial Assistant Vanessa Bland, conjures the dark magic of The Craft (1996), tapping into the film’s spellbinding legacy and the rebellious cultural zeitgeist that made it iconic I was sixteen when The Craft hit screens—roughly the same age as the girls it portrayed. I didn’t see it at the movies; I thought it looked like a film about try-hard teenage goths, and I was busy reading books on astral projection and ghosts. But my close friend did see it, and suddenly she becam

Editorial Assistant Alicja Krotofil dissects The Last Dinner Party’s latest album and their rapturous live rite, where femme excess becomes power. When The Last Dinner Party entered the stage at the ICC Sydney Theatre, it felt less like the beginning of a concert and more like the lifting of a velvet curtain. Bathed in theatrical lighting and draped in their signature baroque styling, the all-woman band delivered a performance that was dramatic and deliberate. There is someth

Section Editor, Juliette Allen, deconstructs unbridled maternal grief & anguish displayed by Actress Jessie Buckley in Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet Content Warning: This review contains discussions surrounding death of a child and grief, as well as spoilers from the film. Still From Hamnet (2025, Dir. Chloe Zhao) Wow! It is hard to believe the time has come again for my favourite, the annual women’s issue. For Veiled our wonderful executives have implored us to examine women as wande

Editorial Assistant Emily Chan shares a moment in time, meditating on the privilege of having women to look up to. I, Tinkerer When I finally make it back to my workstation, I am a mess. Coffee breath (I don’t even like coffee), blood red ink trailing down my neck and chest (it’s not what it looks like, I swear; the pen exploded on me), and to top it all off, this woman—Emily, or whatever her name is—will wake in less than four hours and I am nowhere near finished updating he

Editorial Assistant Amy Shelton unveils a powerful lesson of love taught by one of cinema’s most bewitching couples. They were created for the parody of everything dark, twisted and gothic, yet the love between Morticia and Gomez is something to be envied. With their declarations of love and passionate embraces in seemingly inappropriate times, the chemistry of Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston could warm even the darkest of dispositions. While most people think of Ally and No