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
Icon of the Week: Oliver Guilfoyle
Oliver will be a familiar face for anyone who has been to the open jam sessions at the Mad Hatter on a Wednesday evening. Previously the secretary of the University Jazz Society, they are now practically the house pianist of the Oxford bar. But they don’t flaunt it: as I met Oliver at their
Sissy fascism; a watershed moment
The Lover is playing at the Keble O’Reilly Theatre tonight at 7:30pm for the last show of its run. It is late November 2013. Jeremy Paxman adopts his trademark supercilious lean as he introduces his guests on Newsnight. The screen behind him reads only the word “gay” in comically large
Critical Notices
Good Work by Melinda Zhu (Empty Space Productions) Burton Taylor Studio, 4th – 8th March. At its core, Good Work is a striking and deeply thoughtful exploration of grief—how it manifests in different ways and how unresolved relationships with the deceased complicate mourning. The play follow