Switchboard Weekly: Life and death in the NHS, CUSU Class Act, and reclaiming Lesbian Visibility Week (S1, Ep. 4)

Switchboard is back to keep you connected to the Cambridge community at a time when students and staff are scattered across the globe.

Varsity

Friday May 15 2020, 1:01am

In CoronaBoard, this week we discuss the impact that changes to the lockdown measures will have on working-class people and hear from an Intensive Care Unit Researcher (00:50).

PhD student Hafsah Siddiqui offers an insight into how the pandemic has altered her experiences of sound in Cambridge (09:35).

We speak to Kirstie, Class Act Officer at Fitz to find out more about CUSU's newest liberation campaign (14:10).

For Varsity Out Loud, Siyang Wei reflects on the first ever Lesbian Visibility week, examining the politics of representation and corporate sponsorship, instead suggesting that liberation lies in pursuing structural and material change (23:35).

The Cambridge community is now spread across the UK and around the world, but Switchboard is here to keep you connected. Every episode connects you to an eclectic array of voices and sounds, from Cambridge and beyond...

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