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Future Hopes, Intentions and Dreams
December 28, 2020December 28, 2020

Future Hopes, Intentions and Dreams

Blog by Yemurai Chaza0 comments

2020, was an epoch of its own that changed us all.
We began the year in comfort. Comfortable in our own routines and chaos that left us far removed from our own truth and in most instances, the realities of others. As the year progressed, ‘normalness’ was disrupted.

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How to Talk to Your (White) Partner About Race
December 17, 2020December 17, 2020

How to Talk to Your (White) Partner About Race

Blog by Josephine Jay0 comments

How, and how often should you talk to your partner about race? This piece looks at how to navigate these difficult conversations, in light of the BLM movement in America.

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Never Let Me Go: Revisiting Ishiguro in the Pandemic
December 8, 2020December 8, 2020

Never Let Me Go: Revisiting Ishiguro in the Pandemic

Blog by Anahit Behrooz0 comments

Anahit Behrooz revisits Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go in the light of the recent pandemic. 

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November 17, 2020November 17, 2020

After he leaves: a poem on love under lockdown

Blog by Bee Asha0 comments

A poem by Bee Asha that explores how our awareness of physical touch has changed in lockdown, our inner anxieties left untold and the dramatic reactions that can come from such an unprecedented situation.

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November 7, 2020October 30, 2020

On Having a Portfolio Career

Blog by Krishan Coupland0 comments

3+ On Having a Portfolio Career by Krishan Coupland So. What do you do? It’s a question so common that […]

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October 31, 2020October 30, 2020

Old fears, new loss: Anxiety and PTSD during the pandemic

Blog by Myla Corvidae0 comments

I go to the bathroom to splash my face, prolonging the inevitable. Instead, I curl up on the bathroom mat and let out short gasping sobs. An old acquaintance comes again. Some other distant part of me wishes someone had informed Anxiety about social distancing.

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I became an Auntie on Gorgie Road
October 22, 2020October 22, 2020

I became an Auntie on Gorgie Road

Blog by Clementine E. Burnley0 comments

My excuse for forgetting birthdays has always been that I’m busy. In the world before, I travel for work. I live between several countries, am part of several extended families on three continents. I remember the A5 format menu plan sellotaped to the wall in my mother’s kitchen. She ran her busy constituency office from the cane chairs arranged on the front verandah of our house, but the menu plan was the core structure by which she organised our lives. I came to believe when I’d learned every dish on that list my mother’s work on earth would be done. So naturally I refused to learn how to cook.

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Highland Midges 1 – 0 Me
October 15, 2020October 20, 2020

Highland Midges 1 – 0 Me

Blog by Esraa Husain0 comments

It’s funny, how my parents usually know that it’s raining in Edinburgh before I do. They are avid weather app users and will provide daily weather reports during our WhatsApp calls. My mum will exclaim “it was so warm today in Datca; we couldn’t leave the house to even go to the beach!” She’ll then follow the exclamation with a timid and consolatory tone, telling me that they’ve already checked the weather for me…

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October 2, 2020October 22, 2020

The History of Rummikub: Vignettes from my local shop

Blog by Idil Galip0 comments

Rummikub is a 4-person game played with 106 tiles, somewhere between the card game rummy and mah-jong. It’s a loud game, as the tiles are usually made of hard plastic and make a satisfying sound when they’re mixed. The game was invented by a Jewish man from Romania called Ephraim Hertzano as a work around a gambling ban, since playing card games were forbidden in Romania during the 1940s. Rummikub is one of my favourite games.

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September 25, 2020September 25, 2020

Geographies of cooking (or how I learned how to cook adobo in Scotland)

Blog by Katrina Macapagal0 comments

Before moving away from home, my cooking skills were limited to frying everything, and of course, cooking rice. I lived on takeaways, meals out with friends, and free food at my parents’. Food was functional, cooking was a chore.

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