Asking for a Friend

Student life isn’t always easy. For Mental Health and Wellbeing Week, campus-based support services – Student Health and OUSA Student Support – answer your questions with advice on everything from how to manage your workload through burnout or grief, to dealing with flatcest or hall food constipation. Student Health I’m so tired but struggle sleeping. Any tips? There are a few things you can try to help you sleep...

Penetrating the Perfect Pussy Problem

Content warning: Racism I can’t remember how it started. There was no inciting incident that compelled me to question my labia. Perhaps because I was raised by lesbian parents with a strong hippie persuasion, and (radical) feminist ideology being passed around the dining table as if it were bread and butter. I was always encouraged to explore my body and I’d never had any doubts that my vulva or labia were in any way abnormal, or...

Sins & Virtues of Flatting

Seven Sins  Pride Pride is the over-inflated sense of superiority. The prideful flat is one that considers themselves above the simple tasks that hold flats and the shared Otago experience together. But such pride is, as always, a curse. Pride is selling tickets to a flat party. Pride is labelling yourself as the only ‘clean’ flatmate. Pride is unconscious. It is telling yourself that you don’t need to clean because...

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