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Disruptions: To the Last Four Years

Disruptions: In her final column, Ellen MacAskill reflects on her activist journey at uni.

Picture the scene: September, 2012. Young Ellen takes a flyer from a silent figure outside the QM. It has details of an upcoming anti-austerity march. People who don’t like the Tories! Just like me! A few days later I ascend the stairs of the Boyd Orr looking for the meeting of this organising group. Nervous and wearing lipstick to make a good impression, I enter the room, the only new face…

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Disruptions: Vote Green 2016

Disruptions: Ellen MacAskill on why she's voting Green in the Holyrood elections @scotgp

Holyrood elections don’t strike the fear of doom into my heart like elections at Westminster, even if recent polls suggest the Tories will come in second place. That the SNP will win a majority is a given, so when voting next week we can make sure they don’t get complacent by ensuring oppositional voices in parliament are intelligent and compassionate. (more…)

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Disruptions: Stop Trident!

Tens of thousands gather in Trafalgar Square to listen to Jeremy Corbyn denounce nuclear weapons on Saturday 27th February. Meanwhile, about twenty activists gather at the physical heart of what they are protesting, at the south gate of the Faslane Naval Base in Argyll, home of Trident. The Faslane Peace Camp, a community living in the shadow of the base, has been a fixture in some form since…

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Disruptions: Men’s Rights Activists & Social Justice Warriors

Disruptions: Men’s Rights Activists & Social Justice Warriors

Now that last week’s meninist vs. feminist scandal has died down, we can reflect on the absurdity of the threat and the sincerity of the response. (more…)

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Film Review: Homotopia and other shorts

Film Review: Homotopia and other shorts at @ScotsQueerFilm

In association with Scottish Queer International Film Festival The Scottish Queer International Film Festival has not rested since launching in Glasgow in September. Seeking to bring global queer cinema to Scotland, this month SQIFF has teamed up with the BFI’s LOVE season to present  ‘I Do?’, a season marking one year since the start of ‘equal marriage’ in Scotland. As part of that, this evening…

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LGBTI+ Education Campaign Rejected by Holyrood

LGBTI+ Education Campaign Rejected by Holyrood

A grassroots campaign launched last year calling on the Scottish Government to create mandatory LGBT+ education in schools has had its petition rejected by parliament. Without prior warning, the public petitions committee decided to end its consideration of the Time for Inclusive Education Campaign (TIE) on grounds that it calls for the curriculum to be introduced as statutory, or compulsory.…

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Live Review - The Spook School, Chorusgirl, Joyce Delaney

Live Review: @spookschool, @chorusgrrrl & Joyce Delaney

Nice N’ Sleazy’s- 6/12 Sleazy’s hosts a Sunday night of angry but hopeful weirdo pop-punk. Joyce Delaney are like a scrappier, angrier Girlpool. Glasgow acoustic fave Chrissy Barnacle has teamed up with pal Nyla to sing about pain, sex, and lack thereof. They are pretty under-rehearsed but pull it off alongside their onstage patter and good-cop-bad-cop routine. The misanthropic ‘Do I Even Like…

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Disruptions: On Veganism

Disruptions: columnist @edjmacaskill on veganism

Veganism is not something I often discuss in depth. Aside from “can you eat this?” exchanges with friends, there’s little space for analysing details of the lifestyle. Prolonged chat about food choices provokes backlash from non-converts who feel they are being personally attacked by my diet, so I tend to keep quiet. However after attending the first VegFest Scotland last week, inspired by a…

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