Writing

The Gryphon

• Ariana Grande isn’t Exploiting the LGBTQ+ Community, Manchester Pride is
  Ariana Grande’s headlining of Manchester Pride 2019 has caused an uproar and sparked debate, but is she really to blame?
• TV Review: ‘Russian Doll’
  Natasha Lyonne finds herself stuck in time in Netflix’s ‘Russian Doll’.
• A Mute Gesture
  Music editor Mikhail Hanafi discusses why the music industry still has a long way to go before the abusive actions of artists like R. Kelly can be silenced once and for all.
• Netflix and the Serialised Television Phenomenon
  Where TV series of old tended to stick more rigidly to a procedural format, telling their stories within self-contained episodes, we’ve begun to see more and more shows embrace serialised storytelling. Arts Editor, Mikhail Hanafi, expl
• The Whitewashing of Aladdin
  Despite the narrative that we are the most progressive era in history, debates about portrayals of race in the arts continue to rage on.
• In The Middle with Nimmo
  We speak to Nimmo, one of the most exciting indie-pop bands to come out of the UK.
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape
  Mikhail Hanafi looks at the Ched Evans and Brock Turner cases and why the rhetoric around rape still needs serious change.

The Coffeelicious

• The Acute Loneliness of the City
  “… cities represent our collective optimism about the possibilities out there; the possibilities for work, for self-improvement, and — most importantly — for human connection.”
• Being Different: The Malaysian LGBT+ Rainbow
  According to the World Values Survey, 89.8% of Malaysians perceive homosexuality negatively, and 58.7% specifically stated that they wouldn’t like to have a homosexual person as a neighbour.