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Some of you may relate to the sensory overload of a long day filled with ordinary activities and overlapping conversations on campus. A real mess of stimulus, another type of fatigue. Things can suddenly become too loud, too bright, the images flash too fast. Describing this can sound hyperbolic, but when it comes to the sensory experience, everything tends to be more intense. Especially in a society where everything becomes “overstimulating” - a word commonly used in our gen

Confronted with the spread of reductive readings of Emily Ratajkowski’s Mother F*cker – a personal essay tracing Ratajkowski’s sexual endeavours in the wake of becoming a single mother – I found myself preoccupied with the principles of careful, contextual reading. While conservative commentators attacked The Cut article as a modern feminist guide to female empowerment, my initial understanding of Ratajkowski’s writing signalled something considerably more ambivalent. To me,

The more time I spend doomscrolling, the more I’m faced with the severity of our generation’s obsession with online communication. While social media is an extremely useful tool, it leads us to live in an age of instant reactions, where we respond to notifications faster than to our own feelings, slowly losing the ability to notice what truly matters and to listen to ourselves. In an era of notifications, we react to phones vibrating in our pockets faster and more efficiently

Lippy, I have loved you and now I must leave you. My time as Editor-In-Chief has been a joy, not least for the fabulous fun we’ve had but since it’s enabled me to meet all you lovely lot. Before I go, here are 5 final bits of advice I wish I’d learnt quicker throughout my time in Leeds. A Manifesto of sorts, to make the most of things. Romanticise Everything but People My friend Alice claims we must ‘move through the world as you want it to become’. She envisions a greener fu