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July 13, 2021

Sexual Violence in Greek and Roman Mythology

CW: Sexual assault and rape. My first opportunity to learn Latin was in my first year of university, and me and my fellow students were keen to find a new take on 2000-year-old set text we used to rely on in translation. We found it. Ovid’s Metamorphoses is an epic poem rife with sexual assault and rape, presented as important and romantic poetry since its entry into the English language in the 15th century...
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July 10, 2021

We’re Here Because You Were There – How the British Empire Metamorphosed Power

Amartya Sen recently outlined the structural impacts Britain had on India throughout its longstanding rule, hoping to unpack the illusions of the empire’s legacy through a historical dive into India’s past. As Sen opens with, power is widely agreed to have been established by British forces in 1757 at the Battle of Plassey by defeating Nawab Siraj-ud-Doula’s army and beginning a 200-year rule that ended with Nehru’s famous words in 1947 – ‘At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to light and freedom’. This monumental moment in global history is thought to be the start of a process of decolonisation stretching into the 1980s.
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July 8, 2021

Metamorphosis: LGBTQ+ Rights in the UK

This year, throughout Pride month, I’ve been thinking a lot about my own journey as a queer teenager, then a non-binary adult, and how I’ve changed throughout my life. As with the metamorphosis we see in nature, my identity and self hasn’t changed – in the way that a butterfly is never not itself, even as a caterpillar. But as I’ve understood myself better over time, who I am to the outside world has changed. I’ve had my own personal little metamorphosis. This all got me thinking about wider queer metamorphosis...
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July 1, 2021

A Reflection on Changing Artists and Art

One of the challenges that artists face is the expectation that their work must look a certain way. If they are lucky enough to find fame while they are alive, they are often constrained by the idea that only a certain style will get them money and recognition. As much as a starving artist is romanticised, no one wants to be one. Yet, must that come at the expense of their own creative metamorphosis?
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May 21, 2021

You May Be Okay, but It’s Not Okay

Without thinking, I turned from the main, busy street into a side alley. I was running late to see a friend, and Google Maps showed this route through dark, pot-holed Athens back streets to be the fastest way to get to my destination. I hurried along, frowning down at the map on my phone screen whilst music blared through my headphones. I don’t know when I became aware of his presence. But I remember feeling my stomach drop. You are not safe said my body to my mind. 
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May 19, 2021

Relearning ‘pleasure’ and improving Sex Ed: an interview with Ruby Rare

There is possibly no better way to welcome in the month of pleasure at Clitbait than an interview with Ruby Rare. For those of you who may not know who she is: Ruby is a sex-educator, Brook charity ambassador, co-creator of the Body Love Sketch Club, author of the book SexEd A Guide for Adults, and pink-haired self-proclaimed jelly enthusiast. And while juggling all of these aforementioned commitments, Ruby was kind enough to talk to us about how she ended up getting into sex education, the inspiration behind her book, and what pleasure means to her...
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May 16, 2021

What are we having?

This lockdown year it was especially important to find meaning, but looking back, I think I was prone to finding too much. I have held on too long and too tightly, to people, or ideas, or expectations, and it’s time to let go. Life’s variations have been put on hold for a whole year, and whilst nothing much was happening, I’ve had too many battles in my head with the wrong people, over the wrong things. In our human compulsion to find meaning where none exists, I have often been engulfed by the smallest offences, I have sustained plenty of losses and occasionally had spectacular wins. 
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May 4, 2021

Commentary on Doshi’s ‘Girls are Coming Out of the Woods’: What do women mean when they talk about ‘coming’?

In 2018, Tishani Doshi was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for her electric poetry collection Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods and for her accompanying dance performance of the titular poem. When I first read the poem “Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods”, it was an unflinching victory song. It was a triumph against violence, a triumph against linear constructions of time and memory. But during my master’s in Comparative Literature, when I revisited her works, the poem became symbolic...
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