Author: arranproctor
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Van Gogh Alive TV Package
This TV Package was originally used for the module ‘TV Presentation’ at Edinburgh Napier University in 2022.
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Black Friday’s Effect on Small Businesses
This TV package was originally used as part of the ‘Newsdays’ module at Edinburgh Napier University.
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Tracks Monday host fundraiser in aid of trans drag artist seeking asylum
In this country, trans rights and access to healthcare are at an atrocious level but add seeking asylum from a transphobic country into the mix and your life would surely feel impossible. That is what it is like for Lorelai (she/they), a trans woman and drag artist based in Glasgow. This Indian-born Law student has…
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Turn Up for Trans Health: how it started and where it is going
Cory, from Turn Up for Trans Health, wants to see a complete shake up of the current trans healthcare system. Trans people across the country are facing an immensely hard time right now. From their whole existence being questioned by cis-gendered people to the highest levels in recorded hate crime in history. But even worse,…
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Huge Number of Young LGBT+ People Feature On Local Election Polling Cards
The Local Elections 2022 are now underway, with polling to start at 10am on Thursday 5th May. With all that is going on in UK politics at the moment from the cost of living crisis to Partygate, one thing that did strike me was the amount of LGBT+ young people who are running as candidates…
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Queer radio show host releases diss-track about an Edinburgh Gay Bar
Simba (he/they) started his radio show on EH.FM in 2021 and has had a blast so far. He said, “a year ago, a friend of mine suggested I’d be good for a radio show. And I pitched an idea, and my idea was just essentially an excuse to just play the music that I like.…
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Meet the 11 Drag Artists Performing at Tracks Monday’s Open Stage 2022
Based at Subway Cowgate in Edinburgh, Tracks Monday hosts a plethora or amazing drag talent every week. Hosted by Edinburgh icons Lucy and previously Channel O.Connor, they use their massive stage to promote great talents from across Scotland. On Monday 11th April, Tracks hosted their third Open Stage featuring 11 new drag artists from Edinburgh…
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The Stage is Set
It may not be the West End, but B2 Theatre Company’s leap from amateur to professional production is bound to get a standing ovation. The theatre is back, and I couldn’t be happier. Being a lifelong theatre fan, involved in different amateur productions from the age of seven, I know its importance. Pivotally, it’s got…
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If Nicola Sturgeon resigns is the SNP down the drain?
In the last 12 months of this pandemic, it has been shown in continuous polls that support for the First Minister has risen due to her clear and confident performance in leading the country through this uncertain time. Many have suggested that this has led to fanfare around her and with her support being high…
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TERF Wars and the GRA
TERFs are the worst. How anyone can be a feminist and not believe in the equality of every person astounds me. So, these Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists really get on my nerves. I know, as a male, I’m in no place to dictate what your feminism should be, I also won’t sit here and mansplain…
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