Isobel Slocombe
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Writing featured in Polyester Zine, The Indiependent, The Teen Magazine etc. 

CULTURE:

Polyester Zine | The Smart Girl Industrial Complex: How Performative Intellectualism Replaced Being Hot Online

The Indiependent | Last Orders: The Harmful Implications of Pub Closures 

Substack | The Dale Cooper Effect: Are Wonderful Men Just Average Women?

Substack | Why Are We Still So Obsessed With Marie Antionette?

Substack | The Death of the Chick Flick: Why Can't Hollywood Get it Right Anymore?

Substack | LinkedIn Apostles

Presspeak | What Does AI Mean For Creative Industries?

The Teen Magazine | An Ode to Reality Television: Why Watching Reality TV Should Be Encouraged

The Teen Magazine | We All Need to Try Being Bored Again: Why You Should Delete Social Media

The Teen Magazine | The Rise of AI-Generated Music: Will It Surpass Human Produced Music?

The Teen Magazine | The Rise of 'Coquette Core': Feminine Fashion in the Age of TikTok

Forge Press | Cleaning for the Soul: Letting Go of Toxic Habits and Relationships

Forge Press | The Rise of Deepfakes on 'Skinnytok'

FILM CRITICISM:

Forge Press | Hamnet Review: 'The most visceral yet tender depiction of grief' 

Forge Press | Filth and Glamour: Transgression in 'Female Trouble'

Forge Press | The Gothic Feminine Reimagined: Exploring Costume in 'Frankenstein'

Forge Press | Artificial Intimacy: Are We Living Inside Spike Jonze’s 'Her'?

Forge Press | Sofia Coppola's Gilded Cages: Director Profile

Forge Press | 'Bugonia' Review 'An uncomfortably close retelling of our own reality' 

Forge Press | 'Urchin' Review 'Acrid reminder that life is unfair'

Forge Press | 'I'm Still Here' (Review in print)

Substack | 'Wuthering Heights' and the Possessiveness of Adaptation

LITERARY CRITICISM:

The Indiependent | Macabea Lives: Clarice Lispector and the Politics of Seeing

The Indiependent | The Paradox of Perfection: From Latronico to the AI Age

MUSIC: 

Liberty Belle Magazine |  My Thoughts on Lilly Allen's West End Girl

Forge Press | Live Review: Blue Violet, supporting Echobelly at Network

INTERVIEWS:

Forge Press | UCU Sheffield calls for strike action as University plans major cuts: What do students think? 

Presspeak | Women’s Football: An Interview with Vera Cohen

Forge Press | Live Review: Blue Violet, supporting Echobelly at Network

CREATIVE FICTION:

Dream boy book club | Maeve's Things

Substack | The Supper Club

Substack | Heaven is a Seaside Town

Substack | When I Grow Up

CONFESSIONAL/MEMOIR:

Substack | I Must Stop Watching Instagram Reels on the Toilet

Substack | A Girl is a Fish

Substack | People-watching in July

Substack | Hong Kong

Substack | Saint George

Substack | On Grieving