By Alice Austin MY FRIEND TOLD ME THIS LAST WEEK, I’m serious this time. My friend is absolutely beautiful, seriously, but she refuses to go on Tinder or use any dating apps anymore. This summer she […]
It’s been a bit quiet on our end this last month because we’ve been busy making an actual real No Filter Zine! Why? Because a zine is supposed to be a physical thing and it seems […]
By Alice Austin Reading time: 4 mins My first job was at Fat Face in Norwich. Neither before nor since have I experienced boredom as profound. My role was to stand in an area of the […]
By Alice Austin Reading time: 5 mins Irene is 31, from Madrid and completed her PhD in Palestinian Theatre at SOAS in 2017. When I spoke to Irene it was the day before she handed in […]
Before it became The Foo Fighters Arms, The Dundee Arms was the best pub in East London. The previous owners sold it 3 years ago because it was prime real estate and their reasonable prices couldn’t […]
By Alice Austin Most people will never have the luxury of living alone because it’s expensive and/or you’ll be in a relationship most of your life, so I’ve taken the liberty of sharing my top 5 […]
By Ellen Kirkpatrick So I met this guy at my friend’s warehouse party. I was pretty drunk and my friend was throwing up outside and I was kind of trying to look out for her while […]
Alice Austin Reading time: 5 mins This week I wrote an article for The I about why studying for a PhD can be bad for mental health. The article was a summary of a series of […]
No Filter will be launching our first physical zine in December. The theme is: CHRISTMAS. We want submissions in non-fiction writing, photography, art and illustration. Non-fiction writing You can write under four categories: Recollections, revelations, […]
By Alice Austin Working from home is, for many people, a daily struggle. It’s you vs. you. You are battling only with yourself. No one is watching as you stop doing that important work at 10am […]
By Alice Austin This week the tabloids have reported that a scruffy, needy man has decided to ‘win’ back a girl he dated for four months by playing piano non-stop until she agrees to take him […]
By Alice Austin Another example of pure unprecedented bullshit from my Dad and brother was when we would play games of Monopoly. We began playing when I was about 3 years old, always at my Grandma’s […]