We romanticise the individual experience because we are so alienated from the community. We are so lonely we have taken to altering our perspective on life just to bring ourselves a little solace. TikTok's romanticisation trend has become a cultural movement. But what are this movement's real motivations? Is it damaging our mental health? Are we now so lost in our online world we've lost all touch with our reality? Or is this new movement helping us recover from a two-year-long pandemic?  

This episode is co-hosted by Jamie Spillett aka @cubismhater

This week on the Espresso Series were joined by Racism Unmasked. Racism Unmasked Edinburgh is a movement to combat racism towards East Asians/Southeast Asian-presenting people in Edinburgh and the wider U.K who have experienced racism. With the recent racist attack on the University of Edinburgh's campus, Racism Unmasked's work has been pivotal in creating safe spaces on campus. They are trying to create a place to share experiences, come together as a community and become empowered. They also campaign for policy change in various organisations and companies, such as the fast fashion company Boohoo, and they hope to spread their movement to our universities.

This week we are joined by Anna and Alice from Girls Against. Girls Against is an organisation fighting to sexual assault and misogyny within the live music scene. We aim to build educational resources, to create safe spaces and to ensure the voices of all marginalised folks are heard and listened to. We founded in 2016 as a response to multiple instances of sexual harassment at gigs, and since we have built our campaign to support survivors and to give them a voice. We host gigs, club-nights, fundraisers and produce educational content and resources. We have been featured on BBC News, VICE, The Guardian, The Independent and more
Trigger Warning:  Sexual Assault, Rape and Sexual Violence

This week Olivia Gambelin, the C.E.O. of Ethical Intelligence Edinburgh, answers our burning questions of the Ethics of AI and how her company is consulting cutting edge technology developers, from the heart of Silicon Valley to all five continents.

Her company is at the cutting edge of both research into ethics in the modern day and technology development.   Olivia founded EI Edinburgh to tackle issues with ethics in developing artificial intelligence, such as apps and data collecting technologies.  EI Edinburgh work with technology developers to make sure that they create technology that is morally responsible, advising entrepreneurs and start-ups on how to create artificial intelligence that humans can trust and most benefit from using.  Olivia’s primary field of interest is moral responsibility with regard to autonomous cars.

In this episode we cover how neurodiverse people are often left out of the Reproductive Justice conversation and how they are being exploited and degraded by the healthcare system.

This episode was done in collaboration with GirlUp Edinburgh, GirlUp BAUP and BlackED's Black Feminist Space. Special thank you to all the wonderful people who helped make this episode happen. Stay Caffeinated! 

This week it’s an episode on the Commercialisation of Pride with Grace and Honor. We will be discussing all things rainbow in relation to capitalism! It's about the ethics of Pride and one can be really Prideful while also supporting businesses that don't align their internal policies and their supposed support for the movement every year in June. 

Join Olivia Scher and Banseka Kayembe, the founder of Naked Politics, for a discussion on young people and politics - raising engagement, strengthening participation, affecting change…

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Joel Sodzi is a student who has just finished his second year at The University of Edinburgh studying English Literature and Classics. An avid reader, he enjoys writing recreationally when he isn't making memes or compulsively quoting Peep Show. Following the recent surge in the BLM movement; Joel, his sister Grace and cousin Nat decided to create the page "SODZI" in the namesake of their family, to discuss the experience of being Black and British in the UK, as well as to respond to current events. Though only in it's infancy, Joel and his family hope to use it as a means to discuss, explore and contribute to the growing conversation around race.