Words of Wisdom: Rusty Kate 3rd Week
CW: This is a mildly comedic column written by a drag queen agony aunt. It is not for the faint hearted, and contains sensitive...
Introducing Cherwell’s Dragony Aunt: Rusty Kate 0th Week
CW: This is a mildly comedic column written by a drag queen agony aunt. It is not for the faint hearted, and contains sensitive...
How to find the ‘good’ in ‘goodbye’: moving on and breaking up
We choose who we trust. Sometimes, we just pick wrong. We kiss the wrong people, hold the wrong hands. When you realise you aren’t...
Literary Loves: What fictional romance has taught me about real-life relationships
For the first 17 years of my life, I felt like everything I knew about love I learned from books. Sure, as a self-conscious...
Requiem for a marriage
'I wanted you, all the more because I knew / Someone else was getting you. / What does that mean now?'
Wine and Weather Forecasts
Back in my childhood bedroom, I am stuck in an unpleasant time-warp, sixteen again and agonizing over awful boys, listening to utterly miserable Smiths songs. It’s the deja-vu experience no one wants.
Review: The Places I’ve Cried in Public
"The book tackles abusive relationships in a way that allows younger (and older) readers to realise the many forms abuse can take."
KitKat
Lying down like an upset wine bottle,
smeared across the floor
Personal History
You want to understand how someone could be two people. Why you failed to recognise it at the time.
How to have the perfect relationship (and other lies)
Often, Men seem Martian. They just baffle me. And I’ve got it on good authority that despite our best efforts, they’re regularly just as...
Opinion – The Staff Student Relationship Rules Need to Change
TW: Sexual harassment, sexual abuse, child pornography
‘Would you like a date?’ my tutor asked me plainly
as our tutorial drew to a close. Stomach dropping...
Review: Conversations with Friends
At one point in Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends, the protagonist, Frances, tells her best friend and former girlfriend, Bobbi: ‘If I could talk like you...
Lady Pat R. Honising: Frisky Friendships
Dear Lady Pat,I write to you, as you may expect, in a state of dire embarrassment, shame and confusion. As I’m sure you know, the...
Love and Long-Term Relationships: The Pressure to Commit
As Valentine’s Day is upon us, and advertisements make it
almost impossible not to be constantly reminded of the holiday, many wonder
about their relationship status....
