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Politics by Cheyenne Brown1st February 202026th January 2022

A Look at Language in the Refugee Crisis

So, there is a lot going on in the world right now. Lots of awful stuff. Like, I don’t need to explain to you what I’m going to talk about because it’s in the title and you already know about it if you don’t live under a rock. I want to focus on something that’s […]

Faith by Cheyenne Brown25th January 202026th January 2022

My Nose

As part of my personal blogging, I wanted to talk about something that’s super close to my heart (actually, it’s really close to my eyes.) I’m going to open up about my insecurities growing up about my nose and how I’ve grown to love it and my other features. So growing to love it was […]

Other by Cheyenne Brown18th January 202026th January 2022

Pretentious Academia

Trigger warning: a rant. Not only a rant but the rantiest of rants that you will ever see on Pepper. Okay, so I’m annoyed about the books in my reading list. I love my degree, I love what we discuss in the seminars, I love theory. But I hate the reading. Like, truly hate the […]

Politics by Cheyenne Brown13th December 201926th January 2022

Moving On

So, a lot of us are disheartened, afraid, annoyed… you name it. But one thing I want to say (something I find hard to say) is that we should respect the result of the General Election. Yes, the Tories won. Yes, it’s going to affect a lot of the stuff we care about. For me, […]

Politics by Cheyenne Brown6th December 201926th January 2022

Critical Limits

I looked at the two contesting parties and thought: “None of these really fully represent the way that I think.” But of course I knew that they didn’t form their manifestos and ideologies to please me but to please the nation. So I tried to see which one I liked best. Frustrated, I had resolved […]

Politics by Cheyenne Brown29th November 201926th January 2022

The Lion King

I remember going with my family to watch the live action adaptation of the Lion King. It was great (neglecting the fact that they got rid of He Lives In You, which will forever slap), but it made me realise that my degree has essentially ruined this beautiful Disney classic; all I could see was […]

Faith by Cheyenne Brown22nd November 201926th January 2022

On the Plus Side

I’m starting off the new year with a bang. or a kick. or a jump. (Some form of exercise at least.) I’m going to Clubhouse Xtra, an event running from the 2nd-4th January set up by Christians in Sport to equip sportspersons to share their faith with their team members and honour God with their […]

Other by Cheyenne Brown4th October 201926th January 2022

Writer Meets Verse Writer

In Warwick Arts Centre, I was sucked into the world of Lanaire Aderemi (also known as Verse Writer.) I payed my £11, expecting what I had always seen – someone at the front, reading their poetry to me for an hour. But this transcended poetry. Aderemi’s poetry was a hybrid between spoken word, acting, music, […]

Politics by Cheyenne Brown20th September 201926th January 2022

Earth, Exploitation and Other Dreaded E-words.

Why would anyone sit on the damp floor of a stop at Warwick University Bus Interchange (on a gloomy day) with some chalk and draw this? I don’t even think anybody at the stop noticed it and when I returned days later, it had faded away. As someone who’s into photography, it definitely caught my […]

Politics by Cheyenne Brown13th September 201926th January 2022

Hairarchy

In the western world, black women are at war against beauty standards that are designed to keep them on the out. Actually, Black people are at war with a lot of things at the moment – unfair graduate recruitment is just one of many marshmallows on the open fire (if you’ve watched How to Break […]