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Seventeen editorial shot by Renato Grignaschi 1981

What a Bleedin' Shame: why we need to challenge the stigma of periods.

I got my first period when I was twelve. Then, for some reason, I didn’t get another one for months. It was a hiccup, a one-off, a warm up act. Then, sitting in a classroom about four months later, I felt my stomach ache in a weird twisting motion and I became very uncomfortable in my chair.  I was eventually sent home from school with a headache because I didn’t have the courage to tell a…

Album Review: Fictonian- Desire Lines

Desire Lines, the debut album from Glen Roberts aka Fictonian, is a collection of songs oozing with the rusty rawness of the autumn countryside. (more…)

Film Review: Wild Life at the French Film Festival.

In association with the French Film Festival Wild Life, from director Cédric Kahn, in many ways adopts the tropes of a familiar family tale of divorce, separation and the inevitable difficulties which come with a newly fragmented family. (more…)

Home Students and Freshers’ Week.

If you’re not living in halls, stumbling home with fellow students in the early hours getting to know new flat mates in a fresh and exciting city, University can be a very different ball game. (more…)

Arts Review: All My Sons

Dir: Michael Emas, Theatre Royal, 1st – 5th Sept 2015 Played out upon the wooden frontyard decking of the Keller family home, Rapture Theatre’s production of Arthur Miller’s 1947 play examines the consequences of capitalism’s clutches on a war torn nation. “I’m practical now”, states a disheartened, betrayed Chris Keller (Robert Jack) to his corrupt businessman father, Joe (David Tarkenter), “and…

Arts Review: Joan Eardley – Time and Place

Joan Eardley, Clydebank Museum and Art Gallery, 5 June – 24th October Situated in the brilliant, newly-renovated Clydebank Museum and Art Gallery are the collections of some of Joan Eardley’s most memorable and cherished works. This is an opportunity to see a collection otherwise scattered across different venues around Scotland. Accumulating pieces from West Dumbartonshire Council with many…

The Cruelty Free Challenge

I have always loved make-up. Obsessively watching beauty gurus on YouTube, awkwardly teaching myself to contour (I’m still learning), feeling that rush of excitement at getting my first Chanel red lip-stick and, yes, some questionable years of blue eyeliner experiments…make-up is, for better or worse, a big and valued part of my life. But, however enjoyable a hobby, make-up is not necessary.…