Panda Porn and Jurassic Park: why should we conserve species that refuse to have sex?
You know the vac has reached a new low when you start searching up panda porn. Not the actual stuff—which is both visual and auditory for maximum stimulation—but the long Wikipedia article on it. “What sort of sick person creates this,” I hear you cry. The answer: some of the w
Icon of the Week: Patra
Patra Urairat performed her single ‘Aftercare’ live for the first time after its release in Univ Bar earlier this month. For the first time in her life, she had an audience screaming her lyrics back to her and dancing to the beats she and her partners had taken so long producing. I met he
PRESSURE POINT: Drawing the line in the Middle East
Bad ideas are being drawn up over the Middle East. Donald Trump has called for a US takeover of Gaza in order to turn it into the “riviera of the Middle East”, expelling 2.1 million Palestinians in the process. This is a proposal for ethnic cleansing on a level not seen since the Second [
Feminists don’t wear blue: OnlyFans and prostitution as a “Power Move”
A woman prostituting herself is the ultimate feminist power move. Right? It implies a reclamation of agency, a role reversal. A man does not make money from a woman’s body, as pimps have done for centuries. The woman gets paid cash for her enjoyment of sex! She is the ultimate #womaninmalef
Stranger than fiction: Luigi Mangione and the limits of narrativisation
Is there anything “folksy” about UPenn? Is there anything “radical” about enjoying Atomic Habits and The Huberman Lab? Is there anything “relatable” about your family owning a country club? Does any of that even matter? People have been struggling to make sense of how Luigi
Icon of the Week: Rebecca Harper
Going through the transcript of my conversation with Rebecca felt like deciphering a lost language. We sat down at Society Café at prime time and my poor iPhone microphone couldn’t phase out the bustle. About three minutes into the recording, we devolve into hysterics over our mutual love for Joh
PRESSURE POINT: Put that Ukraine flag back up
Trump’s call with Putin yesterday was a long time coming, but that didn’t make it any less of a shock for Europe: a few people from a fake-sounding place like “Pennsylvania” changed their minds last year, and now it’s finally your problem. Credible journalists are reporting that cur
P*sh boys: if you can’t beat ‘em, fuck ‘em
In my first year at Oxford, posh boys were my snobby, smug, quarter-zip-loving kryptonite. I expected to see them here, meet them, and (probably) detest them. I didn’t anticipate being attracted to them. Yet that’s where I found myself, talking to Tarquins and fucking Ferguses. All of a sudden,
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Vasiliki Poula
‘When No One’s Looking’ Film Photography, Kodak Porta 400 These photographs, shot on Kodak Portra 400 with an Olympus OM-1 at box speed, are from Hydra, in January 2025. Hydra is a small Greek island just a two-hour boat ride from Athens. The island is entirely traversable by fo