Members of the Leeds LGBTQ community talked to Features Editor Brigitte Phillips about living with their identities, and their misunderstandings and misrepresentations that come with it. Stephen’s story asexuals aren’t sex-hating killjoys. I realised I […]
LGBTQ: A Community Speaks, Tasha’s Story
Members of the Leeds LGBTQ community talked to Features Editor Brigitte Phillips about living with their identities, and their misunderstandings and misrepresentations that come with it. Tasha’s story People often assume that bisexuality is essentially […]
LGBTQ: A Community Speaks, Jude’s Story
Members of the Leeds LGBTQ community talked to Features Editor Brigitte Phillips about living with their identities, and their misunderstandings and misrepresentations that come with it. Jude’s Story I’m very much still the same person […]
LGBTQ: A Community Speaks, Claire’s Story
Members of the Leeds LGBTQ community talked to Features Editor Brigitte Phillips about living with their identities, and their misunderstandings and misrepresentations that come with it. Claire’s story “Thanks Mister Hetero Drunk Man, really glad […]
LGBTQ: A Community Speaks, Ryan’s Story
Members of the Leeds LGBTQ community talked to Features Editor Brigitte Phillips about living with their identities, and the misunderstandings and misrepresentations that come with it. Ryan’s Story And I can assure you that when […]
UniversiTORY Challenge
Paul Dacre, Editor of the Daily Mail, famously said ‘If you don’t have a left-wing period when you go to university, you should be shot.’ Yet Edward Hardy, president of the LUU Conservatives, has no […]
Female Masturbation: It’s a touchy subject
It’s a Friday night. You’re sitting around a table in someone’s kitchen, drinking vodka out of a Deloitte promo mug. To disguise the uncomfortable atmosphere, you play ‘Never Have I Ever.’ It gets to one […]
Ayahuasca: ‘It was one of the most amazing experiences of my life’
An anonymous student talked to The Gryphon about ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic drug in South America I first heard about ayahuasca when I came to South America to study. One of the topics brought up […]
The legalisation of drugs worldwide
The British media in the past year or so has seen a fixation with ‘legal highs’, and more specifically, why they are still legal when we know they can cause harm. One could be forgiven […]
We meat again: vague-etarianism
After being a vegetarian for seven years, the editor of The Gryphon, Jasmine Andersson, discusses why she decided to start eating meat again, the social pressures of being a vegetarian and her reasons for initialling giving […]
Zwarte Piet: The Dutch tradition of Black Pete falls under increasing scrutiny
The Dutch national holiday Sinterklaas is now under international scrutiny. St Nicholas, an old white saint who hands out presents, has a servant by the name of Zwarte Piet, or ‘Black Pete.’ Despite obvious connotations […]
A Divided Germany: 25 Years since the fall of the Berlin Wall
Although Remembrance Sunday will this year be focusing on the centenary of the First World War, the day also marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. For those who lived during […]