Cleopatra Created an Issue
ALEXANDRA BAYBUTT with CLEOPATRA GLITHERO
This video clip emphasises the often-sobering repetitiveness of email correspondence with public offices.
To Be Heard As Complaining Is Not To Be Heard. Part II
WILL DAMARJIAN If these walls could talk they would tell you everything I cannot say, They would groan and protest under the strain, Unlike me, these walls …
To Be Heard As Complaining Is Not To Be Heard. Part I
WILL DAMARJIAN with EMILY BAKER People can complain, but are they heard? People can raise their voices in anger, but can they truly disrupt institutional procedures which neutralise dissent?
Shapes of Complaint
SIMON FARID
A series of visual accounts showing four encounters with complaints I had in Spring/Summer 2022 through working at a major art gallery and as a resident artist at the Institute of Advanced Studies.
How Complaints Can Stall
VICKI BAARS
Complaining can be understood as something very broadly defined, sharing your unease with something, or very specifically defined, entering into a formal ‘complaints’ process.
Dismantling Gendered Hostilities in Higher Education
LO MARSHALL
When invited to contribute a piece on hostile environments in higher education, my mind immediately drifted to a scene in the film A Fantastic Woman.
Unlearning Ableism
CLEOPATRA GLITHERO
I am not good at being late. This feels like a strange thing to say as a person who is about to enter her sixth year of a normally three-year undergraduate degree in the hopes of graduating for the first time aged 28. But here I am…
Off-set Centres
ALEXANDRA BAYBUTT
I paused by the purple cladded Tour Guides who were showing a small group a picture of the building from a bird’s eye view, The Cruciform, the St George’s cross design.
I Am As Brown As Brown Can Be
MATAIO AUSTIN DEAN
I am as brown as brown can be,
With the swirling riches high,
Piled tightly into my sloe bush eyes –
Sandwiches Are Not Woke
PAULETTE WILLIAMS
‘The meeting was bad. We got a meatless lunch with these awful woke sandwiches.’
An innocuous conversation about corporate catering left me contemplating…