Shreya explores her summer in Indonesia, reflecting on not just the highlights of the trip but the deeper lesson she took from it. Her piece questions our seeming dependence on earphones, a constant barrier we put in place to block out the noise of reality, instead encouraging a decoupling from our reliance.
Shreya reports on how LSE has been named among twelve British universities found to have paid a private security firm to surveil pro-Palestinian students on campus.
Sophie highlights how society imposes contradictory and performative expectations on disabled people.
Hareem claims that Western powers weaponise feminist rhetoric to justify imperialist violence.
Anna contends that Dubai’s promise of insulation from Middle Eastern instability was always precarious, and recent conflict exposes how wealth cannot ultimately shield a city from geography, politics, or human consequences.
