Review: Queen, Nicki Minaj
It’s been a rough few months recently for rap fans, from Kanye’s antics, to Nas’ half-hearted NASIR and, most recently, Drake’s exhausting double album, Scorpion (also the dumpster fire that…
Review: Mum Says My Memoir is a Lie – Rosie Waterland
Releasing a memoir which discusses details of your most embarrassing, dark, confronting and scarring moments growing up is challenging enough, let alone having your mother read it. Let alone having…
Love Letter to Eskişehir, Turkey
I witnessed a furious brawl outside a teahouse, the type frequented almost exclusively by older men. I wasn’t sure what the source of the commotion was, but I saw a…
Better Late than Fresher Episode Ten: You’re the Angina of My Heart
This week: Cohen’s actually productive? Also, learning about important drugs, college fire alarms, study sanctuaries, uni debating, Vine parties and step counts Hosted by Bridget Rumball & Cohen Augustson
All Aboard the Guild HYPE Train: A bumper guide to what you’ve missed
This is the guide to all the things that make up elections before BLACKOUT is lifted tonight. I thought a fun little framing device would be being the conductor of…
Review: Crazy Rich Asians
I watched the trailer for Crazy Rich Asians between my fingers, a metre away from the screen, ready for Scarlett Johansson to jump out like a demon in an early-2000s…
The Lost Dimension of 2-D Buying
Today we live in an impatient and insatiable world in pursuit of instant gratification. Everyone wants super charged NBN, express delivery, speedy sustenance and racey ‘Tinder’ romances. Clothes shopping is…
Tortured Artists – Aisyah Sumito
Aisyah Sumito is a Perth based visual artist and curator. They spoke to Alec about a range of things from their own work to the need for spaces for diverse…
SITTING IN SOLIDARITY: A Response
This piece below written by the Left Action Presidential Candidate, is in direct response to a piece published on 28th August regarding Jacob Fowler’s opinion on solidarity motions found here.…
Review: You Were Never Really Here – A Brutal, Poetic Study of Trauma
There’s a moment in Lynne Ramsay’s latest film You Were Never Really Here where Senator Votto (Alex Manette), the father of the kidnapped Nina (Ekaterina Samsonov) asks Joe (Joaquin Phoenix)…