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    IPCC Climate Change Report – What Is It and What Does It Mean?

    15th October 2018 By 0 521

    By Shawna Healey The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or the IPCC, is an intergovernmental United Nations body formed in 1988 that is dedicated to providing the world with an objective, scientific view of climate change, and its political and economic impacts. At its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, it is chaired by Dr. Hoesung Lee,…

  • Entertainment, Fashion, Opinion

    The Growing Influence of YouTube Beauty Gurus

    15th October 2018 By 1 1449

    By Shawna Healey In the last couple of years, the “beauty community” on YouTube has boomed. The original stars, such as Michelle Phan, Tanya Burr and Kandee Johnson, paved the way for new, more modern, and arguably far more influential beauty influencers, otherwise known as beauty gurus. Today, beauty gurus such as NikkiTutorials, James Charles,…

  • Lifestyle, Opinion

    What It’s Like Being a Low-Income Student at University

    15th October 2018 By 0 212

    By Shawna Healey Student loans and grants are a touchy subject due to students receiving different levels of financial support depending on their socio-economic and family backgrounds, particularly for students who come from a middle-class background who are frustrated by the lower level of support they receive. While this annoyance is valid, it can drown…

  • Fashion, Lifestyle, Opinion

    Tess Holliday’s Cosmopolitan Photo shoot: Fatphobia at Large

    9th October 2018 By 0 1100

    By Shawna Healey The term ‘intersectional feminism’ was coined by critical race theorist Kimberle Crenshaw, professor of Law at UCLA and Colombia Law School, in a 1989 paper “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics”. Intersectionality is centered around analysing how oppression often…

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