One writer reflects on outer space, societal space, and how we may learn from both to better support communities… (full article here)

There's power in taking time for ourselves and for each other. After spending time in Sweden, one writer reflects on how the country's culture harnesses this power – and how we should too… (full article here)

The conversation around ADHD is increasingly opening up – but there's still a lot that goes unsaid. We speak to women about their experiences with diagnosis, the structures which dominate, and workplace professionalism… (full article here)

On October 14th 2022 two young activists, just 20 and 21yrs old, from Just Stop Oil threw a can of tomato soup at Van Gogh’s The Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London. “What is worth more, art or life?” they asked… (full article here)

As another year rolls around and everything is still on fire, one self-described radical pessimist reflects on the power of hope during times of despair… (full article here)

The UK and Global Arts have had to do some serious self-reflection recently. Following George Floyd’s murder and the Black Lives Matter protests, Sarah Everard’s murder and the Women’s Rights protests, the climate crisis, increasing poverty, and the mass movement of people from around the world to find safety and refuge, all compressed by a global pandemic: we’ve had to really consider how the arts operates within an increasingly precarious world… (full article here)

Society often thinks of gender as a spectrum with two binaries on either side – women, who use the pronouns she/her, and men, who use the pronouns he/him – and in between the two, lies a grey area of non-binary people who typically use the pronouns they/them. But what this limited spectrum doesn’t accurately convey is how gender, like sexuality, is an incredible kaleidoscope… (full article here)

31 July 2021: The Skinny

As the Edinburgh Festival Fringe returns to in-person venues for the first time in two years, we assess the festival's past problems, whether anything has changed, and what a fairer Fringe could look like in the future… (full article here)

2 October 2020: Colouring in Culture

I am really pleased to be able to share this extremely powerful, thought-provoking guest blog by Rosie Priest. It’s a personal account of how art can be part of everyday life as well as a challenge to the superficial rhetoric of institutional art as a vehicle for “transformative change”… (full article here)

March 17 2021: Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities

This week’s guest post is by University of Stirling PhD researcher Rosie Priest. Here, she discusses the specific difficulties she’s encountered throughout her time in academia and how the exacerbation of those issues during the pandemic encouraged her to seek help… (full article here)

6 May 2021: The State of the Arts

The monopoly The Fringe Society has created means artists and cultural workers aren’t being cared for… (full article here)

6 May 2021: Bella Caledonia

It’s been four years since #MeToo swept across the world, seeing millions of women step up and share their most vulnerable, terrifying and traumatising stories of abuse. After 2017, the UK saw a surge of reports through official channels, calls to organisations such as Women’s Aid and Rape Crisis rose dramatically and it was clear that #MeToo had encouraged women to step forward, to ask for help, and to attempt to hold their abusers accountable… (full article here)

1 October 2018: The Skinny

Fed up with society’s casual misogyny? Here’s why a group of women came together to form a coven… (full article here)

18 May 2018: The Skinny

A brilliant showcase of work by Dundee's most exciting artists at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) degree show… (full article here)