Hannah Bettison

What we can learn from Americans despite Trump

They saw our Brexit and raised us Trump. Now more than ever it seems easy to dismiss Americans as stupid, arrogant, selfish and fake. After all, they are being represented on a global level by a man who is arguably all these things. But despite Trump, there is still a...
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Posted Dec. 18, 2016

What I Learned from Sharing a Room

Do you know what it means to be ‘sexiled’? Read on to find out Hannah Bettison’s experience with having a roommate…   Doing a year abroad is undoubtedly an experience of a lifetime, but when I saw the price of a single room, my heart dropped. Over $1000 a month. That...
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Posted Feb. 24, 2016

Sexual violence in Westeros

Spurred by the wedding-night rape of Sansa Stark in a recent episode of Game of Thrones, Hannah Bettison looks at the show's portrayal of sexual violence against women, and why it's a problem
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Posted Jun. 11, 2015

Representation Frustration

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t is generally considered wrong to judge someone based on race, gender, wealth, class, religion or sexuality, yet these factors may well, intentionally or otherwise, play a part in the way we vote. This is because of the desire, or expectation that any elected body, be that the Boar exec...
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Posted May. 1, 2015