The Digital Battleground

The Digital Battleground Waging war on the internet, one comment at a time by Aaron Grierson Everyone knows about news on various scales; local, national, international. The internet helps facilitate faster access to information, from Google, to news websites, to posts on social media. The potential for...

The Gender Complex

The Gender Complex Frailty of the fairer sex: A myth or reality? By Wajiha Haider “The history of man’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of the emancipation itself,” Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own The above quote demonstrates two things: Woolf was...

A Naked Industry

By Aaron Grierson Entertainment: illegal. Employment: dangerous. Each of these words has been used to describe the pornography industry. It is one of the longest standing industries and has grown in variety, if not popularity. This is due largely to the advent of the internet, which is connected to...

Breaking Bonds

By Salman Latif What prostitution really means. Ever since humans started to live in groups and communities, they began to develop a set of regulations which would govern their way of life. Over millennia, as humanity has evolved, so has its concept of morality. We have come a long way from the moral canons...

The Hard Work of Poetry

By Salli Shepherd Poets are constantly crippled, creatively. It’s the way it works. You write a line and, just now, right now, it seems like it’s the best line in the world to date. It’s a shiny, beautiful line, a thought, an image so remarkably profound that you are in awe of yourself, or...

The Vault

By Maria Amir Crossing perceived boundaries.     “We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky   I suppose it is necessary to admit at this solemn stage...