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May Thomson

May Thomson
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Location
Durham
Education
Durham University
Expertise

University, student lifestyle, higher education, features, opinion content, literature, art, Durham city content, social media

  • May is the Editor-in-Chief of The Durham Tab for 2025–2026, where she oversees the publication’s content and team. In addition to writing and editing articles, she helps with social media, runs meetings, commissions stories, and manages the publication’s daily operations
  • May writes a broad range of content for The Tab, including social media trends, local university news, opinion content, and features
  • May is an English Literature students who loves to read and enjoys writing both poetry and prose. She has a TikTok account where she posts about university life and books, which has amassed over 750,000 likes.

Experience

May Thomson began writing for The Durham Tab in 2024 as a student writer, and will be Editor in Chief for The Durham Tab from 2025-2026.

Education

After studying Politics, English Language, Art, and English Literature, May enrolled in an English Literature course at Durham University. Currently a second year, she is particularly interested in Sapphic and Victorian Literature.

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Posts

Lesbihonest: My experience being an openly lesbian woman at Durham University

A brief discussion of my experience as a sapphic woman at Durham University

On grief: My experience of dealing with loss whilst studying at Durham University

I lost my father during my first term at Durham: This is my story