Spiders Can Be Beautiful – An interview with Mariella Herberstein
By Jennifer Vu
In my first semester at Macquarie University, I had this really awesome and interesting Austrian lecturer who would play a random animal noise at...
Grapeshot Chats with Tom Ballard
Tom Ballard chats with Nick O’Sullivan from Grapeshot about being at O-week, Triple J and what’s happening to live Aussie music.
Tom, how have you...
Uni made easy
WORDS || Satyajeet Marar (B Laws/ B Arts – 5th year)
In a disgraceful state of affairs, students up to 40 points short of the mandated...
The Big Short | Review
Words || Adrian Nguyen
He’s well known for unleashing Will Ferrell’s screaming stupidity (Anchorman, Talledega Nights and Step Brothers), but director Adam McKay is no...
Gay as Fuck: An interview with pop artist Brendan Maclean
Meeting Brendan Maclean at a Sydney pub a few days ahead of the release of his EP, funbang1, was admittedly a bit of a...
Film Review: Wild Tales (Relatos Salvajes)
Words | Max Mahood
Wild Tales (Spanish: Relatos Salvajes) is a 2014 film from Argentinean director Damian Szifron that tells the stories of six people whose days...
Life On Stage – Interview with Troy Harrison
Grapeshot Presenter Nicholas O’Sullivan spoke with Troy Harrison about love, fidelity, comedy and life. Troy, alongside with John Atkinson, Megan O’Connell, Zoe Trilsbach and...
Film review: Canopy
WORDS | Alessandro Guarrera
Shot on location in the Jungles of Singapore and the Australian outback, Canopy tells the tale of Jim (Chittenden), an Australian...
SNAP RALLY: Campaign Against Staff & Student Cuts
Words || Rayna Bland
On the 9th of September 2020 at 1pm, a snap rally burst into action at...
Political gaffes and other riff raffs
As Parliament resumes this week, Grapeshot news editor, Emma Vlatko, takes a look back at some of the best gaffes from the six-week winter...
Features
Diving off the Fertility Cliff
Words || Eleanor Taylor
What is common knowledge about fertility now?
If you have a uterus,...
Perfect, Pretty and Poised: The Hidden yet Visible World of the...
Words || Aylish Dowsett
Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, or so the saying goes. Attractiveness is...
Preach Nasty
Words || Anonymous
Let me chronicle my experience as a woman for you.
I grew up...
Exploring the Artifice of Influencers
Words || Shinae Taylor
“Is this caption okay?”
It’s the summer of 2017 and I’m sitting...
The Balancing Act of a Brown Feminist
Words ||Sara Choudhry
Almost anyone who calls themselves a feminist in the year of Miss Rona 2020 is familiar...
