Category: OX Magazine

This year, the theme of International Women’s Day is ‘embrace equity’, which draws attention to the subtle but significant difference between the related concepts of equity and equality. Where equality seeks to provide the same rights and support for all, equity levels the playing field. Equity recognises that some voices are more marginal than others…

It’s hard to talk about love and politics in the same breath, mostly because the divisiveness of debate accentuates a lack of lovely language. And I’ll admit, I am finding it tough to do so here today. But I think writing about the intersection of love, politics and positivity is notwholeheartedly a fools errand. In…

Two years ago, January 6 2021, the US Capitol Building was sieged by far right militia groups, conspiracy theorists, and other supporters of Donald Trump. The mob forced their way into the D.C. edifice after Trump falsely declared the 2020 election to be stolen, resulting in the deaths of five people and hundreds of injuries.“Stand…

In recent years (and particularly in the age of lockdowns), we have all become intimately familiar with the ease and necessity of online shopping. The situation is pretty universal: something like, you need to fix a drawer that has fallen apart and realise that its screws take an amorphous proprietary screw-bit that none of your…

It has been hard to be positive about politics; I might say impossible. I had thought about writing about how the invasion of Ukraine has brought nations together in a show of solidarity, but I found it ultimately crude and unhelpful. I imagined that with each word I wrote, Russian forces had crossed another checkpoint,…

“They just don’t care.” that’s the phrase, I’m sure, has been relentlessly circling through our minds as scandal after revelation makes its way into the fore about our leader’s appetite for telling lies, hypocrisy, and of course, partying while he does it. They just don’t care. Why don’t they care? and this time I mean…