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Brittney Rigby – 2017 Tharunka Managing Editor

  • The Garbage Man

    The Garbage Man

    Daniel’s Garbage Man dives into feeling like garbage in the lonely hours of the night. Inspired by T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men and Nietzsche’s concept of ‘last men’, Daniel also looks at the apathy that we can unwittingly slip into when we feel small and thrown around by life.

    February 2, 2022
  • “Lockdown”, “social distancing” and “COVID-safe”: How did COVID lingo become so normalised?

    “Lockdown”, “social distancing” and “COVID-safe”: How did COVID lingo become so normalised?

    The coronavirus pandemic has seen the emergence of new phrases such as “social-distancing” and “flattening the curve” as well as the induction of coronavirus into the cockney rhyming slang dictionary as “Miley Cyrus.” But when do new, eloquent terms descend into the depths of political jargon and buzzwords? Tasarla Harman investigates how language can help us navigate the ongoing pandemic.

    February 2, 2022
  • For him in the past and the future

    For him in the past and the future

    Poems about preconceived realities, those that haunt my thoughts through my eyes centre and my hearts focus.

    January 31, 2022
  • Everything’s Symbolic

    Everything’s Symbolic

    Poems about preconceived realities, those that haunt my thoughts through my eyes centre and my hearts focus.

    January 31, 2022
  • Gorgeous sex workers get fucked hard by OnlyFans

    Gorgeous sex workers get fucked hard by OnlyFans

    Exposing OnlyFans’ flippity-floppity decision making, violations of sex workers rights and the future of the porn industry. 

    January 31, 2022
  • The video games industry isn’t just filled with trash, it’s rotten to the core

    The video games industry isn’t just filled with trash, it’s rotten to the core

    The horrifying levels of abuse and discrimination recently uncovered at Activision Blizzard are shocking, disgusting, but unsurprising. This behavior seems to be endemic in the video game industry. 

    January 31, 2022
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