Goldsmiths Cuts Funding For ‘Against Sexual Violence’ Project

Reporting on Goldsmiths University’s decision to cut funding for the Against Sexual Violence project and the Student Union’s statement of response, News Editor Tahera Bundhun outlines the college’s consistent lack of commitment to the campaign and echoes the SU’s call for support.

News

September 4, 2020

Palatable Exoticism

In a mesmerizing mix of creative writing, illuminating essay work and urgent call to action, Katrina Nzegwu's piece touches on many vital yet nuanced of the current moment, including the relation of collectivism and individuality to race, colonialism, and class.

Journal, Politics

August 28, 2020

Deptford Town Hall Statues Must Fall – A statement from Bye Bye Francis

Bye Bye Francis, the campaign to remove the slave pioneer statues from Deptford Town Hall, explains the colonial history of the iconography and why it should be taken down.

News, Politics

July 13, 2020

Notting Hill Carnival 2019: A Different World

Looking back on Notting Hill Carnival 2019, the event seems to resemble a distant other world. Using the current climate as a critical lens, Goldsmiths alumni Yuvan Kumar's photo essay is a vibrant, honest, and insightful look at the carnival's most recent incarnation.

Art & Culture, Journal

July 5, 2020

Statues Like Colston’s Are Symbolic, Not Historic

Arts and Culture editor Joseph Hewlett-Hall discusses the symbolic and political implications of removing colonial statues, touching on the laziness and cowardice of conservative response to such removals, as well as responses within the Goldsmiths student community towards colonial iconography on our own campus.

Journal, Politics

June 28, 2020

Semiotics of the Kitchen, Remade

What agency do we have over our electronic appliances? Politics editor Aarushi Matiyani evaluates the kitchen through a postcolonial and gendered lens, revealing the semiotic aspects of our everyday appliances that inspired a project of her own.

Journal, Politics

March 6, 2020

The Invisible Killer: Emotional Abuse in Toxic Relationships and Why We Need to End it Now

Emotional trauma in childhood often creates toxic behaviour in adult relationships. Can we ever break this cycle of emotional abuse and create relationships with a happy ending?

Journal

January 14, 2020

Review? What Review?

"As someone who is witnessing Brexit unravel not having voted for it, someone who is only old enough to vote for the first this year and someone who writes critically of politicians and politics, it can become all too easy to sit back and complain about those who are making the decisions and the decisions they make" - Politics Editor Clare Morris provides a reflective review of Tom Black's 'Crisis? What Crisis?’

Politics, Reviews

December 31, 2019

Corruption Watch: Inside the Global Arms Trade

CEO of Shadow World Investigations, and author of ‘The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade’, Andrew Feinstein, hosts a screening of the book’s 2016 documentary adaptation, where he speaks frankly about his time in the African National Congress (ANC), as well as the power of investigative journalism and our current political reality. Politics Editor Nathan Brown recounts his experience of the screening...

Journal, News

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