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Transgender Dating: A Hidden Issue
Get PDFAn interview with Felix, a trans male detailing the silent struggles he faces regarding dating
Is Nottingham\u27s \u27Literary Greats\u27 campaign enough to attract across the pond visitors?
No full textAn article on the literary greats campaign and the distribution of funding in the UK. 
The Phenomenological Influence of Inner Speech on Executive Functions
Get PDFInner speech is an internal verbalisation that can contribute to solving complex tasks. Variations of Inner speech and its influence on specific executive functions in typically developing adults is an area of research that is underdeveloped. This study used the Varieties of Inner Speech Questionnaire (VISQ) and split participants into high and low inner speech quality levels. Each participant completed three conditions; standard (no instruction to use or inhibit self-talk), articulatory suppression (which aims to block a person’s inner and private speech by omitting its usage) and overtly verbalising (talking out loud), to investigate the qualitative influence of inner speech on two measures of executive function. Experiment 1 (The Tower of London) showed no effect of inner speech quality levels on any of the three conditions; findings suggest that planning is not dependent upon inner speech. Experiment 2 (Card Sorting Task) indicated that lower quality levels of inner speech significantly benefited task performance; findings suggest that higher quality levels of inner speech are significantly detrimental to cognitive flexibility. These results are essential for understanding the interindividual role of inner speech quality in supporting complex executive functions. Additionally, the findings advocate that inner speech has separable trajectories for specific executive functions. Understanding the possible interactions between inner speech quality and specific executive functions could assist in maximising performance and interventions for typical and atypical populations
Reclaiming Identity: Sexuality in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
Get PDFThe repression and denial of sexuality in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway conveys the way sexuality was perceived in the 1920s; Woolf addresses some of these issues and attempts to show how they affected different people. Using articles written by Jesse Wolfe, James Schiff and Suzan Harrison I argue how sexuality and identity are connected. Mrs. Dalloway is considered Woolf’s first successful modernist text. Elizabeth Meese’s description of female sexuality as the site of rebellion is pertinent, as is her assertion that Sally Seton’s kiss with Clarissa breaks up the traditional storyline of masculine desire
Examining how Sugar, Sugar represents the effects of experience and tradition on the bodies of migrant slave workers
Get PDFThe experiences and traditions of migrant workers between the 17th and 19th centuries stem from their diaspora condition, forced upon them when they attempted to find work in safe and stable environments. In this context we can consider the bodies of these migrant workers, and investigate how they would have had to adapt to endure hardship. The hardship these workers endured is reflected in their clothing and skin, often a symbol of identity, as shown in Lainy Malkani’s Sugar, Sugar. There is also evidence in Malkani’s short stories of emotional hardship endured by the workers, particularly the women, who suffered abuse and sexual exploitation, coming to regard it as their own fault for not keeping their body ‘sacred’. Additionally, I will explore the struggle of the migrant slaves attempting to hang onto their traditions whilst experiencing hardship, and the effects this has on their experiences on the sugar plantations
Alice Short: never short for words
Get PDFRapper and poet Alice Short has been blowing up Nottingham stages with her sharp wit, political edge, and deep-seated passion for voicing her opinion on current affairs with confidence, flare, and attitude
