Ava Doherty

At Oxford, desire often wears a gown. It speaks in footnotes, engages in debates in the smoking area, and sends you into an existential...

Welcome to Oxford, the place where ambition goes to drink, cry, and write 3,000 words on “liminality” at 3 a.m.

I went to Ometepe in search of a view, but found something closer to a memory. The island floats inside Lake Nicaragua, its twin volcanoes...

“What does summer mean to me?” was always the first question on the first page of a new schoolbook. A trap disguised as a...

Tate Modern's "Leigh Bowery!" refuses easy categorisation—much like its subject A fashion student from Sunshine, Melbourne, rocks up to London in 1980, writes 'wear makeup...

Like Harry Potter under the stairs, I was ‘the one who lived’. A rainbow baby (a baby born after loss), wrapped in nappies and...

It’s a damp Tuesday afternoon, and W.H. Auden is waiting patiently at the bus stop...

Ava Doherty discusses the busyness epidemic, and how this path to validation is ultimately harming us.

Too many of us know the emotional grey area that situationships cultivate. That illusion of indifference – our personal emotional insurance policy – is a ready get out in case our true feelings go unreciprocated. Ava Doherty expands on why this is not only emotionally detrimental, but significant for our political demands too.

Periodisation is the act of dividing literature into eras like Romanticism, Modernism, or Postmodernism – neat, bounded categories based on unifying characteristics, themes, or historical...

Struggling to ward off Union hacks? Look no further for guidance: Ava Doherty has you sorted.

Ava Doherty reflects on university friendships – and laments how it can often feel like a loveless environment