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Common rooms, LGBTQ+ Soc condemn Oxford events with ‘gender-critical’ speakers

CW: Discussion of transphobia Oxford University is facing backlash for a string of events featuring “gender-critical” speakers, including journalist Helen Joyce and Professor Michael Biggs. Oxford University LGBTQ+ Society (OULGBTQ+ Society) alongside several college common rooms have issued statements against...

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Do ‘you-need’ Youni? 

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My music doesn’t break tradition. It is traditional

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MLK Day: Anti-Blackness isn’t just a Western problem

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Culture

The Secret History Characters as Oxford Tropes

Donna Tartt's novel The Secret History is set in an exclusive college in Vermont but can be read as a satire of Oxford and its students. It invites us to question how little differentiates us from the elitist American universities.

Nosferatu: From Murnau to Eggers

Over one hundred years since its first screening, F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) is not as terrifying as it once was, yet it retains a timeless...

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