Which type of lockdown relationship are you? A fun game to while away the time until lockdown 2.0 is over!
Zoom Fatigue, Digital Drain, Virtual Ennui: Who else is sick of their screen?
It’s the phrase on everyone’s lips. Zoom Fatigue (or whichever titular variation you prefer) is bearing down upon us as we enter week seven of lockdown. Fatigue or no fatigue, however, there’s certainly no escape from the endless virtual socialising that has come to dominate our lives.
Normal People: The show you don't want to watch with your parents
It feels like summer 2018 all over again. Sally Rooney’s Normal People is the dominant topic of conversation - although this time around it’s not her words we’re drooling over, but the BBC’s new 12-part adaptation of the novel. Find out what Harpy thought of the series.
Build your own ecological period product
A fun isolation game for all the family!
20 things I’ve learnt on the long road to 2020
It’s Brexit Day (boo) but it’s FINALLY the end of January (yay). To celebrate (and commiserate) this rather momentous occasion, Rose Collard takes a look back at some of the things she’s learnt on the long road to 2020.
OPIA Collective: The Girl With Glitter In Her Eye
OPIA Collective’s The Girl With Glitter In Her Eye is an ambitious, theatrical piece that explores the narrative – and most importantly, the ownership of the narrative – around trauma. Written and directed by Masha Keninovna, the play tells the story of a friendship complicated by the revelation of trauma. It poses the question: is it possible to tell someone’s story without silencing them along the way?
Lemon House Theatre: shaking up the theatre landscape
Lemon House Theatre (aka Jen and Samia) have landed with a splash - and are about to debut their first full-length productions at The Bunker in South London. Harpy caught up with the smart, savvy pair to talk about theatre, politics and why woman are ALWAYS funniest when they’re in the home. Catch Willow and Different Sand on the 8th, 9th, 15th and 16th September.
Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Victim, Complex
Kiri Pritchard-McLean’s latest show might just be the best thing you ever see. Harpy unveils why you should be checking out one of our favourite heroines.
Ella Woods: Wing Defence
Heading to Edinburgh this year? Check out Harpy’s new favourite comedian Ella Woods and her show Wing Defence: a comedy about sport by someone who hated it.
Wish: A Voice for Women's Mental Health
Wish are a women’s mental health charity; the only national, user-led charity working with women with mental health needs in prison, hospital and the community. Charity director Joyce Kallevik chats to Harpy about their work.
Meet Katherine Christie Evans: Velodrome musician and Harpy heroine
Katherine Christie Evans = Velodrome: a queer artist whose work is concerned with social inequality, Feminism, and mental health and queer visibility. Harpy meets Katherine to talk about Velodrome’s debut single and debut event.
Review: Tessa Coates, Primates
Tessa Coates - sketch comic extraordinaire, trio-of-podcasts host and now stand up - unveiled Primates, her debut solo show, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2017. Part-autobiography, part-anthropology lecture (and a whole lot hilarious) Primates has just finished a sell-out run at the Soho Theatre. Harpy was lucky enough to snatch half an hour with Tessa to talk about her experience creating the show.
The Women's Equality Party: Political Protest
As International Women's Day approaches, we take a look at the two year career of the Women's Equality Party, who have accomplished a great deal in their short life span.
London Women's March 2018
A year to the date since the Women’s March of 21st February 2017 (the first day of Donald Trump’s presidency), the Time’s Up Rally was held to commemorate this anniversary. As a Leeds-based magazine, Harpy was unable to attend the London rally, but caught up with our friend Kirsten Peters-Roebuck (@KirstenP_R), who was there in full force.
Not all men? Actually, Yes, all Men.
#notallmen might be one of the most vexatious, thoughtless social media campaigns since the dawn of Twitter. Assuming complete ignorance on society’s part, it is passive-aggressive, snide, and wrongfully accusatory. Much has been written, deliberated and disagreed on about this most divisive of hashtags.