Opinion
Opinion pieces from our Intersections writers. Read the full archive of our Love Bites columns, where our writers share the things, people and places they love the most.
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Swipe-Date-Delete-Download: On Dating App Burnout
You're done with dating apps? Join the club. We explore dating app burnout in the queer community and all the complexities that come with our digital romances Read more »| 07 Sep 2023 -
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Love Bites: To Gather & Gossip
This month's columnist reflects on our attachment to gossip, retraces its history, and celebrates the intimacy of a secret shared Read more »| 17 Aug 2023 -
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Ask Anahit: How to Fuckboi Favourably
In this month's agony aunt column, one person asks how to ethically conduct That Fuckboi Life Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
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Dog Days: Responsibility & reflection in trying times
A new puppy can bring all sorts of havoc to a life – but, really, we might actually welcome the ups and downs of canine parenthood. One writer explores growing up, emotional turmoil, and why we're embracing dog ownership in our twenties Read more »| 18 Jul 2023 -
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Love Bites: For the Hungry Girl
This month's columnist muses on a vegetable that delights, comforts, and demands nothing but a solitary joy Read more »| 14 Jul 2023 -
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Ask Anahit: Toxicity in Tiny Towns
In this month's agony aunt column, one person asks how to cut out toxic people in a city where everyone seems to know everyone Read more »| 13 Jul 2023
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Mapping with Intent: Feminist city planning
Who are our cities built for? And how does this impact our daily lives? One writer explores Scottish cities' recent move towards feminist urban planning and unpacks what this should look like – in policy and in public Read more »| 15 Jun 2023 -
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Love Bites: Teenage Foundations of Decay
This month's columnist reflects on rediscovering My Chemical Romance, teen angst, and the power that comes with both Read more »| 13 Jun 2023 -
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Ask Anahit: New Love, New Nuisance
In this month's agony aunt column, a friend won't shut up about their new squeeze Read more »| 13 Jun 2023 -
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Prioritising Pleasure: Vaginismus & centring comfort
Centring comfort in sex will always be crucial – especially when it comes to vaginismus. We discuss gender affirming experiences, pleasurable anal sex, and listening to our bodies Read more »| 18 May 2023 -
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Ask Anahit: Memes, Muting, and My Buddy Eric
In the first of a new column, newly anointed agony aunt Anahit Behrooz offers some advice to our readers Read more »| 15 May 2023 -
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Uneasy Acts: The importance of discomfort in resistance
From slashed paintings to rescheduled snooker matches – methods of political resistance are always criticised. We look at condemned protests from our past and present to unpack the power of anger and discomfort in demanding change Read more »| 10 May 2023 -
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Love Bites: Dual Carriageway Dreaming
This month's columnist Lucy Fitzgerald unpacks the romance of motorway service stations and the imagined lives they allow us to pit stop at Read more »| 10 May 2023 -
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How Glasgow's community organisations are struggling for space
We're well aware: money's tight. But how does this impact the community organisations that allow us to come together and connect? One writer explores the importance of maintaining spaces and unpacks the trials and tribulations of funding applications Read more »| 05 Apr 2023 -
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Drinking Climate: Alcohol and the environment
Tasting Climate Change takes place 11 April, at Edinburgh Science Festival. Tickets are available here: https://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/event-details/tasting-climate-change Read more »| 04 Apr 2023