• SU Elections: Meet your 2017 Part Time Officer candidates

    During our SU Elections media day on Saturday 4th March, we chatted with the candidates hoping to fill part-time SU officer positions. Here’s what they had to say. International Students’ Hemanth & Loren (aka Aladdin & Jasmine) Loren Querickiol is a first-year International Media and Communications student and Hemanth Kalathuru...
  • Spotlight on LGBT+ Instagram Fashion Icons

    Fashion is, for some, the ultimate mode of self-expression, and as February is LGBT History month, what better way to combine the two than take a look at some amazing LGBT+ fashion inspiration? From celebrities to less well-known style icons, if you’re Instagram is running dry, take a look...
  • Gay Thoughts: An LGBT Valentine’s Playlist

    We’re halfway through LBGT History Month AND it’s Valentine’s Day! However you choose to spend this month of love (and this day of love and buying things), the Impact Music gang are here to make sure you have a gay old time. Below is a selection of our favourite LGBT+ related songs… Make...
  • Trailer Watch – Love Is All You Need?

    What if society’s views were reversed? What if heterosexuality was not considered the norm? An overtly thought provoking concept turned indie film is Love Is All You Need? Nothing excited me too much in the trailer and it seemed to go on for a long 3 minutes, giving every...
  • Jo Ralphs: “Is May’s Premiership Closing the Gender Gap?”

    Starting an online search for Theresa May, you can’t help but feel sorry for our new Prime Minister. Though admittedly the search engine I was using was Bing, seeing the words ‘low cut top’ appear next to her name as the first search suggestion was more than a little depressing. In a...
  • “Notts is with Orlando”: Nottingham holds vigil for Orlando victims

    Hundreds of Nottingham citizens gathered at the Brian Clough statue in the city centre on June 18th to hold a vigil for the victims of the Orlando shooting. The statue was adorned with the rainbow flag and was surrounded by tea lights arranged to read ‘LOVE 49’. A framed...
  • LGBT Playlist: “Glad To Be Gay”

    As LGBT History month comes to a close, IMPACT brings you a choice selection of some of the finest LGBT-affiliated songs to soundtrack your demonstration of pride throughout the year. Where some of these entries are just a few of our favourite tracks by LGBT artists, others have an incredible political,...