Amelia Averis

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20th August 2023

Perhaps the ponytail can be seen as a 'Feminist Symbol', but we mustn't reduce top-level athletes to their hairstyles

I hoped to read an article on the feminist symbolism of the hairstyle, and its rejection of what the male gaze sees as feminine, but instead, I was met with predictions of the next summer trend.

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4th July 2023

Laughing in Despair: Satire of Sh**ty Partners

Reasons for and repercussions of creating comedy out of bleak traits in romantic partners.

15th April 2023

Taking it all in – how visiting a French museum taught me to slow down.

Inspired by Tates #SlowArtDay.
Translating all of the written information in a museum and art exhibition was meditative, and encouraged me to fully take in the pieces. It made me realise something similar about experiences

13th April 2023

Creating Liminal Spaces of Confession: Johan Deckmann

Deckmann fades into the background and allows his pieces to be a personal interaction between the art and the onlooker. Deckmann’s pieces create a liminal space that each viewer will fill separately.

27th March 2023

Men, sons, and daughters.

Is there more to the son fantasy than football? Why men should stop telling daughters they don't want daughters

17th March 2023

The Alarmist and Exploitative Fabrication of 'No Go Zones'

The Daily Mail recently came under fire for discussing the existence of so-called 'No Go Zones' in certain UK areas, which were claimed to be unsafe for white people to enter due to hostile Muslim community. This is false and perpetuates Islamophobia, yet it has persisted over the last decade.

14th March 2023

A Case For The 0.5 Lens

Uncovering the artistic and social reasons for the craze over wide angles and their mini photography-art movement.

8th March 2023

Poverty Play or Artistic Activism? Skip House

Why The Skip House has landed slightly wrongly.

4th March 2023

An Additional Thought On: Dating Shows as Reality TV?

Inspired by Broey Daschanel's video essay 'Love Island: A Flirtation with Surveillance'

1st March 2023

An Additional Thought on: Talking about Motherhood

Inspired by a conversation on 'Adulting 2.0: Timelines' by Oenone Forbat.

26th February 2023

The Museum of Lost Memories: the Extraordinary, Ordinary History of the everyday

The Museum of Lost Memories is a project dedicated to the return and preservation of lost photographs, home movies, letters, and more.

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24th February 2023

The demise of #girlboss

It is offensive? Cringe? Embarrassing? What happened to the accolade of being a 'girlboss' and who ruined it?

23rd February 2023

An Additional Thought on: Veganism and Restriction

Inspired by a conversation on 'Goes Without Saying' by Sephy and Wing

23rd February 2023

Memes and social satire -- future GCSE-History sources?

The intersection of viral memes with sociopolitical and societal satire

22nd February 2023

The Factors at Play in the Protein Boom

Women in weightlifting, social media, and market buzzwords - a deep dive into the protein mania of the twenty-twenties.

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21st February 2023

Technology, science, and the immortalisation of everything

A quote by L.M Montgomery reads “Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it”- this is how we and our lives are immortalised through technology. Maybe it is more poetic than dystopian.

But how then, can we let things go? And do we have to?

boot-music • 7th February 2023

ALBUM REVIEW: Biig Piig - Bubblegum

Feminine speed garage combined with dreamy electro-pop is an increasingly popular genre. Biig Piig’s debut album 'Bubblegum' is the newest addition and joins the likes of YAZ, PinkPatheress, and Nia Archives.

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5th February 2023

The Future of our Socials and our Socials of the Future

Social media apps are released almost constantly. Only every few years does one take off and enter popular use.

What makes them make it? And what can we expect in the next few years?

3rd February 2023

The Nostalgic Warmth of IKEA's New Collection

IKEA's collaboration with Sabine Marcelis takes interior design back to the 60s and 70s.

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25th January 2023

The content-ifying of exercise: social media, fit-fluencers, and running apps.

Examining the combination of social media and exercise.

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17th January 2023

Symptoms, anecdotes, and treatment: Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)

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13th January 2023

Are We Living At the End of History?

As we study civilisations from the beginning of the world, there's the uneasy feeling that we are living at the end of it.

14th December 2022

Lana Del Rey's Journal-like Discography

Lana's discography captures place, time, and feeling in a way that only a personal journal can. I look into how her current moment in her discography is forming an audio journal that's scrapbooked by her album art.

11th December 2022

What is Purpose?

Where we find meaning: Does purpose have to be unattainably bigger than us?