Written by Bouchra Haddani A couple of years ago, one of my closest childhood friends didn’t attend my 18th birthday party. She wasn’t sick, she wasn’t traveling, she wasn’t busy. She just couldn’t be bothered to leave her house on a cold winter day to a function where the only person she knew was the… Continue reading Maybe we should inconvenience ourselves?
Category: Society
It’s “my body my choice” unless you’re poor
We’re soft launching super humans and we should be worried about it. Written by Maria Cairoli Choice feminism has made the phrase “My body, my choice” into its mantra. It expresses bodily autonomy in a world that keeps attempting to regulate, judge, control, and weaken women’s bodies. According to the so-called choice feminism as upheld by liberal ideals, plastic surgery appears as a… Continue reading It’s “my body my choice” unless you’re poor
How to Be Healthy: Notes From Someone Trying
Written by Deniz Kaya This year, I went crazy and bought sardines. I hate sardines and I hate canned fish. But they are high in protein and omega-3. I stopped eating sugar, I tried. I heard it gives you more energy, better skin and improved health. But I was just unhappy. This is not just… Continue reading How to Be Healthy: Notes From Someone Trying
The Apartments We Visit
Written by Larissa Straßer How do we measure time? How do we measure moments and memories and a life lived? I keep a counter, a visual one. It is a mental list of all the apartments I have visited in my life. From my grandma’s house with the dark green oven tiles and the hidden… Continue reading The Apartments We Visit
2026 is the new 2016
Written by Maria Francesca Ficarra In a world that increasingly feels (or rather is) one breath away from disaster, we are instinctively driven towards the idea of certainty, searching for means of escapism, and what better comfort there is than the rose-tinted memories of 2016? At the beginning of the year we witnessed a surge… Continue reading 2026 is the new 2016
The Beauty of Gore
Why Are We So Attracted to Murder Mysteries? Written by Nastassia Tsialpuk Why are we as humans so fascinated with blood-curdling stories of serial killers, and why do we derive a sort of guilty pleasure from indulging in consuming them? What kind of masochistic tendencies make us want to flip through the gruelling details of… Continue reading The Beauty of Gore
On Gen Z, Crises, and Politics in Art
Written by Filipp Beldushkin I am not really well-versed in the pop culture that is popular among Gen Z, even though I am part of it, so please take my analysis with a grain of salt. I believe the Western civilization is undergoing a major institutional and value crisis. The values of Gen Z and… Continue reading On Gen Z, Crises, and Politics in Art
The Quiet Resistance to Acceleration
Written by Ceylin Dogan I wake most mornings with the sense that time has already escaped me, as though the day has moved several steps ahead before I even open my eyes. The restless drum of my mind, still soft with sleep, begins listing the lectures to attend, deadlines to complete, messages to reply to,… Continue reading The Quiet Resistance to Acceleration
Why are Korean women such good writers?
Written by Livy Li After the phenomenal success of the film Kim Ji-young: Born 1982, I went to read the novel. On Japanese Goodreads, many people gave it four stars. One highly upvoted review said: “A thin book, just over a hundred pages, sparsely printed and written like a diary without any literary flair. Hardly… Continue reading Why are Korean women such good writers?
Gatekeeping, or the art of being tasteful
Written by Maria Francesca Ficarra “We need gatekeepers again – new, more diverse ones. Editors, experts. Taste isn’t a democracy, nor should it be populist. It comes from experience and exposure… Just because you eat doesn’t make you a restaurant critic.” This extract from a Substack post written by Emily Sandberg sparked a lot of… Continue reading Gatekeeping, or the art of being tasteful