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Shining a Light on the Northern Pint: An Interview with Misty Taylor
Over this year’s summer, SINK encouraged young northerners to explore their culture and identity in an essay competition with prompts of Northern independence, identity or spirit. It was the final question, ‘what is the spirit of the North,’ which inspired the 18 year old winner Misty to write their piece. With a humorous spin on…
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Utopia: Dreaming Up a New Dimension
What does utopia mean to young, Northern artists? In this issue, contributors paint up their predictions, hopes and dreams for the future. Ranging from dynamic art, witty poems and thoughtful essays. For centuries the idea of a perfect world has been mused upon by many. From the philosophical and political realm of Plato’s republic to…
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“I am deeply Mancunian on a molecular level”: Speaking to Natalie Morris
We spoke to journalist and writer Natalie Morris about her game-changing book Mixed/Other, what Northernness means to her, and what a diverse and equal media landscape would look like. Natalie Morris is an engaging, charismatic and tenacious voice in the UK media scene. I came across her at first through her Metro lifestyle reporting, which…
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Summer essay writing competition
SINK magazine is launching its debut short essay competition to encourage young Northern creatives to get thinking and writing about the issues which affect and underlie regional inequalities. We are looking for short essays of up to 750 words responding to any of the three questions below. Your essay can be personal or impersonal, artistic…
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The Survivors Trust UK: Issue 2 Charity Spotlight
CN: sexual assault, violence, abuse and harassment, r*pe culture, sex, brief reference to Sarah Everard When we chose to base our second issue on intimacy, love, sex and the body, we were acutely aware of the sensitivities and difficulties that would be involved in producing art around these themes for so many people, but disproportionately…
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Free Period Products Reveal How Bodily Autonomy is Limited by Socio-Economic Factors
Background After extensive grassroots campaigning, Scotland has become the first nation in the world to provide period products for free to all who menstruate. While the practice of providing free period products in public buildings has been widespread for at least two years, the Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act will impose a legal obligation…
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Hungry children are not “a liability to the state”
The voting of 322 of our elected representatives against providing free school meals for children in England until Easter 2021 highlights how out-of-touch and uncaring this Tory government is. They claim it’s to avoid ‘state-dependency’ and that they have a universal credit system to deal with issues like child hunger in a more sustainable and…
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‘Fatima’s next job could be in cyber’
In 2016, I was in set four in maths, with a man who got increasingly frustrated with me as I demonstrated carelessness, a lack of focus, and a tendency to make mistakes. He clearly saw me as a nuisance as he moved me down a set. Four years later I was referred for ADHD(I). This…
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Reproductive Rights and the US’ History of Forced Sterilisation
CN: This post contains reference to forced sterilisation, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, sexism, classism and ableism Background Many harrowing allegations of forced hysterectomies and other unnecessary gynaecological procedures at an ICE detention centre in Georgia have been alleged by a whistleblower this month. The whistleblower alleges that many of these surgeries were performed on Spanish-speaking female…