Features Archives - Page 9 of 29

12 FEB

In conversation with Flora Alexandra Ogilvy, founder and CEO of Arteviste

By Gabriella Yasmin Khan, LLM (Master of Laws) For our readers who will be unfamiliar with Arteviste, could you give a short description as to what the platform is, and what it aims to achieve? Arteviste is a digital arts platform with a focus on the younger end of the contemporary art market. We put together […]

01 FEB

Lonely Spirits – January

You are the hansini Oh meri hansini May this new year be ever so liberating for you to do what cannot be done To spread those swan wings and fly And to fly along – I will try 🙂 Anon I just wanted to send all my love to my favourite editor, your […]

30 JAN

Cigarettes and Smiles

By Milhouse Storey, BA Arabic and History Steve – I’d walked by Steve because I didn’t have any cash on me, but stopped further down the street in a quiet place to wait for a friend and smoke a cigarette. It was dark and already cold, although it was only early evening. I saw Steve pick […]

30 JAN

Humans of SOAS: Stephen Chan

Professor, Martial Arts Master, Former Student Activist. Interviewer: Ali Mitib, BA Law and Politics What is your background? I was born in New Zealand to refugee parents. Because of the war, New Zealand was a very poor country and there was also racial discrimination, including laws against Chinese people. I was the first born […]

30 JAN

My first time: Keeping tadpoles (and thinking about death)

By V. A. Douglas When I was very young, and was out on a walk with my parents, I came across a pond full of frog spawn. I wriggled free from my mother’s grip, and ran to the water’s edge. The water was alive with swimming black things. The edges of the pond were bubbling […]

30 JAN

DO NOT READ – January

By Your existentially subversive sweetheart Right, okay. I met up with a high school friend recently (LSE, high-fly, business owner), who’s further down the right-spectrum than me. In talking to her I found a rather uncomfortable mirror. This is my letter to her. Listen in, if you like. We think we are the rational ones […]