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My name is Evie and I am a writer, editor and publishing professional based in London and Oxford. I began writing as a young person as a response to the injustice I was seeing in the world.

I am passionate about gender equality, LGBTQ+ and disability inclusion and migrant justice.

Recent Articles

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Stories of Science’s Female Trailblazers: Lise Meitner

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was an Austrian physicist whose pioneering work led to the discovery of nuclear fission. Through the archive of her nephew, Otto Robert Frisch (1904-1979), Trinity College holds various papers that tell the story of this remarkable woman. The works of Lise Meitner are featured in the exhibition In Her Element: Stories of Science’s Female Trailblazers currently on display in the Wren Library.


Born in November 1878 to a Jewish family in Vienna, Meitner grew up in a time...
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Stories of Science’s Female Trailblazers: Mary Somerville

Mary Somerville (1780–1872) was a Scottish polymath and one of the most respected scientists of her age. A full century before Cambridge University allowed women to receive degrees, Somerville’s pioneering works were essential reading for Trinity College’s scientists and mathematicians. In 1831, she donated her acclaimed new publication Mechanism of the Heavens to the College library. A year later, she was invited to stay within the College itself, meeting leading figures of the scientific world...
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Disability History Month 2024: Lord Byron

14th November 2024 marks the beginning of Disability History Month, where we highlight the voices of disabled people, past and present, in hope of creating a more equitable future. The theme for this year’s month is ‘Livelihood and Employment’, a subject that encourages us to re-evaluate the historical association between disability and unemployment, and to challenge the traditional preconception that disabled people are ‘less-able’ and so less ‘valuable’ in a working society. To mark this month...
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Toxic 'Hostile Environment' policy for UK migrants is jeopardising public health - Shout Out UK

Within the last year, this government has willfully ignored the plight of undocumented immigrants and refugees, denying them safe accommodation and safe access to healthcare.The government’s policy of creating a ‘hostile environment’ has become increasingly harmful throughout this pandemic. The term ‘hostile environment’ refers to a set of policies created in 2012 by then Home Secretary, Theresa May. These policies were designed to make life difficult for immigrants, forcing them out of the UK....
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Legally Owned By a Man: #FreeBritney Echoes the Plight of 'Hysterical Women' - Shout Out UK

THE STORY OF BRITNEY CONCERNS COUNTLESS OTHER WOMENBritney Spears can’t leave the house without permission or live where she wants to. She can’t spend her own money or make crucial decisions about her body — such as whether or not to have more children. For the last decade, every one of these decisions has been made by her father. Spears’ life is completely out of her hands. She is a woman legally owned by a man.If this level of control sounds familiar, it’s because it is. Britney’s fight for fr...
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Oxford Speaks: Experiencing Queer Joy - The Oxford Blue

The world is not always a kind place for queer individuals like myself. A lot of the time, I feel hurt, anxious, and concerned when I see the depictions of our community in national media. These headlines show a lot of sadness, but at the heart of the queer community is joy. We are just a group of individuals all seeking to find little slices of queer joy in our lives. The world deserves to see this side of the queer experience.


For me, this joy can be simply feeling comfortable wearing the c...
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The Dahmer Series: Stop obsessing over serial killers - The Oxford Blue

TW: Violence, Murder


If you weren’t already aware of the name Jeffrey Dahmer, a serial killer who murdered 17 young men between 1978 and 1991, you’re unlikely to have continued in blissful ignorance of his existence recently. With the relentlessly publicised series ‘Monster: A Jeffrey Dahmer Story’ now the second most popular English-language series on Netflix of all time, we seriously need to think about the nature of the content that we are consuming. Writing this article has been a two-per...
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Transphobia: The UK's "Respectable" Bigotry - The Oxford Blue

Illustration by Leyla Baxman.


TW: Transphobia, Homophobia


Over the past few years, there has been a dangerous and recurrent rise in transphobic hate speech. Politicians, media personalities, and twitter trolls alike have all taken to attacking trans people under the guise of moderate, even logical, views about protecting women. But where did this come from, and what can we do to change the narrative? 


There has been a dramatic change in the amount of articles written around transgender...
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Hidden Aces: The lack of asexual representation in the media - The Oxford Blue

Illustration by Evie Craggs


With more and more mainstream programmes exploring queer experiences and queer identities (see Heartstopper, Euphoria, Sex Education and more), LGBTQ+ individuals are becoming more seen than ever before. Yet, in amongst this great progress in representation, there is a pointed lack of exposure given to asexuality. I can count the number of asexual identifying characters I am aware of on one hand.


This means that most people are not aware of asexuality as they ha...