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2023 Craccum highlights

Flick through this year’s Craccum editions and remind yourself of all the wonderful, weird, confronting and uplifiting events of 2023.

A selection of 2020 Craccum Magazine covers

Feature highlights

Let’s talk about intersectionality, baby!

By Amanda Joshua (she/her)

When asked about White Power presence at her events, anti-trans activist Posie Parker replied, “you’d have to ask the Nazis why they show up”. (If speaking to a Nazi isn’t really something you felt like doing this week) Craccum will dissect intersectionality, reflect on queer POC experiences and why hate against any minority group will always invite other hate groups…

Paris and Abby Take on ‘The Menu’

By Paris Blanchard

How hard can it be? The answer is ‘very.’ It’s 10pm and Abby and I are standing in her kitchen. Our shoulders are slumped, heads low and stomachs uncomfortably full. We have spent the last five hours unsuccessfully recreating Chef Slowick’s infamous dishes from Mark Mylod’s film, The Menu. Why, you might ask? We did this for you. And now…

Conversations with a Dealer

By Oliver Cocker (he/him)

Reporting on drugs. This is a conversation with someone like you. They’ll walk across City Campus on any given day. You will not know who they are, and they will not know you. They’re not new to the University, but neither have they been here long. I did not ask their name, and they did not give it. No name,…

Shove It Up Your Arse!

By Tim Evans (he/him)

A terrifying list of makeshift sex toys. Everybody knows that your arse is sensitive, in more ways than one. Playing with it is only a natural progression of sexual exploration which frankly more people should embrace. But fear not, if your student bank account is fucking you daily, makeshift alternatives to high quality sex toys present a strong and hole-filling…