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🌈 Why We Celebrate Pride and Valentines in the Same Month 🌈
Today, the G-You starts a week’s series of articles in honor of the LGBTQ+ history month and its community. We hope to share relevant and educative information with these series, and some light-hearted articles too… We start on the topic of love <3
What is Intelligence (And do we oversell it?)
Assuming that you’re a university student, I don’t think I need to go to any great lengths to explain the massive importance of intelligence (or at least its perception) to our everyday lives. And yet it’s something we know so little about. What is intelligence? What faculties does it include and is it somehow superior or inferior to the other talents we as humans possess? Let’s take a looksie…
BRIDGERTON: Charming or charmless?
Netflix’s new show, based on a series of books by Julia Quinn, is their new incomparable. The show has taken the world by storm (perhaps for us being bored and confined), raising a few eyebrows…
Ethics of Travel 🚁✈️🚐🚗🚈🛴🏍️🚌❓
The seemingly ever-lasting pandemic has placed restrictions on both domestic and international travel over the last year, forcing us to minimise our movements. Yet lately there has been a surge in influencers and reality TV stars taking international trips to destinations including Barbados and Dubai, boasting images of white sands and turquoise waters to brighten up our day.
Social Media Regulation: From Trump’s Ban to Zuckerberg’s Fear.
…it is important to take a step back and realise that these social media sites are incredibly bad at dealing with illegal behaviour online, and that some strong government regulation is necessary to curb some of the harms they create…
Breaking out of Break Out Rooms
Anastasija not only speaks about the awkwardness of breakout rooms, but alludes to some wise words in Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction”. We’ll leave you with this one specific quote: “why do we feel it’s necessary to yak about [bs] in order to feel comfortable?”
Why is nobody talking about midsize girls?
Mid-size. What is it? Why have you maybe not heard of it before? For decades, the modelling industry represented the smallest of bodies, creating an unhealthy obsession with remaining slim and unrealistically small…Now, more plus size models frequent runways, photoshoots and magazines. However, with this great and inclusive representation, an important group seems to have been missed..
Give Us Clarity. Give Us Support.
…After a year of unparalleled and unprecedented disruption, including personal and financial hardship for so many, students deserve appropriate support and clarity of communication from our universities and governments, not further uncertainty and bluster…
The Much Needed Recipe for Your January (Astrologically guided).
Get your new lockdown recipe with this month’s horoscopes!! You won’t regret it, I promise!
Men’s Mental Health in the UK: What can I do?
The number one cause of death for men under 45 in the UK is suicide. Just because it is not November anymore, it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t speak about men’s mental health. Johnny discusses this further in this article and links some helpful resources.
This Moment in Time
It’s necessary, sometimes, to take a moment to simply pause, reflect and appreciate. I’ve found that, as a student, we’re usually all so busy with studying, part-time jobs, socials, checking in with the family, partying (this could be an inexhaustive list), that often the only photos we take are just posing with mates before your make-up sweats away into the night…
Your 2021 Resolutions Based on December’s Stars’ Forecast.
👀👀👀👀👀👀👀…General pointers: beginning of December is quite “calm” (makes sense because of revision and deadlines); 14th new moon will spark everything up & get the month going with Saturn and Jupiter’s kumbaya. Read for more intel.
TikTok: A New Social
Well we’ll put it this way: if any of your family relatives asks you for the millionth time what TikTok is, send them the link to this article. TikTok is the new social.
‘When the Government does not Protect me, I must Protect my Sister’.
On the theme of disruption - another view on the what is happening in Poland… The rightwing Polish government have launched an attack that severely regresses abortion rights and access in the country. On October 22nd, they ruled that abortion would only be legal in two scenarios: if the pregnancy came from incest or rape, or if the pregnancy threatened the life or health of the mother…
How to be sustainable in the city - a guide for glasgow.
We’re bringing you, yet again, some discussion on sustainable fashion. This time you get a guide to Glasgow though!! One of the good things to come out of this year and the time locked-down was increased awareness and publicity around the damage fast-fashion has done to our planet and the importance of shopping small.
The Forgotten C - Glasgow University Macmillan Society and the Impact of COVID-19 on Cancer Support.
The impact of coronavirus in 2020 has been distressing for everyone in many different ways. However, for those affected by cancer, coronavirus has made an already difficult time even harder. COVID-19 has led to 650,000 people with cancer in the UK experiencing delay…
G-You and GSC Collab Article: The Fight against Anti-Abortion Legislation in Poland and How You can Help from the UK
This month, G-You has collaborated with GSC (Glasgow Students for Choice) to compile a resource pack offering a comprehensive overview of the current fight against restrictive anti-abortion legislation in Poland.
Towards a Northern Powerhouse?
…Events such as the Brexit vote have highlighted a ‘geography of discontent’ in the UK and are illustrative of the culmination of decades of neglect from central government. This has added impetus to initiatives like the ‘Northern Powerhouse’ and Boris Johnson’s flagship ‘Level Up’ election pledge, which have attracted new scrutiny and attention. Yet, it is not enough to merely redistribute money to the North if this isn’t invested at the grassroots level and in local communities…