This essay addresses ideas around eco-storytelling & neurodiversity, while reflecting upon an immersive performance the author co-created in Tartu, Estonia in 2024, and tells the tale of a woman who must absolve her sins by tattooing the trunks of every tree in a forest.
The kids are afraid of feeling. They, for whatever reason, have an aversion to showing any sign of caring, frustration, sadness, the like. In the minds of young people everywhere there is a block that has been developing and solidifying against the vulnerabilities of...
A speech on the greatest threat facing our country.
Writers are dearly in love with oranges. They’ve found metaphors in bits and peels, even in stems that grow increasingly along the sides of trees that hang low to the reader, easily pickable. What I’ve seen, and continue to see, is that there’s something about oranges...
I was pretty active on Letterboxd last year. If you’re unfamiliar, Letterboxd is a social networking platform that allows people to rate, review, and catalog films. It pretty much functions exactly like Goodreads with a laughably bad search function to match....
My youngest brother, Adi, was yet again on his way to a corner store to buy some daily supplies for our home. Casually strolling down the street, a carry bag in his hands and his headphones plugged in, completely tuning out the world, he was stopped by a group of four...
“Analog is a lyric essay that stems from two of my greatest sources of delight: my non-familial relationships and my mild obsession with recording things, often via photography. Broadly, it’s a meditation on how to cherish moments and people that bring me joy when everything is in constant flux.”
The air was light and filled with the smell of wild roses. Two teenage girls with small bindis on their forehead had the same pinkish hue on their cheeks as the roses they were picking. The cinematographer went closer to take a close-up shot of their faces. It...
This piece interrogates the purpose of faith in giving people a continued sense of purpose in America: a culture of perennial novelty that seeks to discard people when they are unable to find a place in the narrow routine of its population. This essay also opens up a further interrogation of one of the biggest problems facing our culture: how do we resist the urge to dispose of people, as we do our used items? And when people have been disposed of, how do they survive? Robert examines it through the behavior of these charity shop evangelists, while also examining his own relationship to this religious community as a queer man.
A creative exploration of understanding oneself through one’s physical body. Take a look into the nature of symbols using personal accounts, family history, and the work of Umberto Eco. It is, above all, a personal confession told through the eyes – or perhaps terrifying mouth – of girlhood.
MAROU sits down with one of our editors to discuss mental health, moving to a new city, and how art isn’t just something we do, but who we are. She also talks about the music that has changed her life for the better, and how she’s glad she listened to the signs that kept telling her she was headed down the right path.
Caitlin Taylor So retells the stories her grandpa told her about the Vietnam War, from her perspective as his granddaughter. Reflecting on what these stories mean to her, she connects them to her annual Lunar New Year wishes to her grandparents. She grapples with how it is possible to give back to your elders when they have given you everything.
N.H. Van Der Haar wrote this work because he was deeply interested in their Gay Sauna, how it occupies a space in pre-legality homosexual life and how delicate its position can feel in the wider culture of Pride and Melbourne culture.
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With some help from you, reliable sources, and our editorial team we have put together a brief guide for learning about what is currently happening in Palestine, around the world, and what we can do to support people in the face of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
A look at how Kipo functions as a multiracial, Black and Asian character in Netflix Original Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts.
Where does the film, and by extension, the doll, fit into our discussions of feminism, capitalism, and nostalgia?
There’s something strange about the way Hollywood celebrates explosive martyrdom.
Life of Pi is a book written by a White Canadian man about a Pondicherry Indian boy which somehow became a Taiwanese icon in 2012.
Haikus can be so much more meaningful when they are unbound from their syllabic structure
Pulp fiction magazines have always teetered between the line of low and high art, and as such are considered fairly niche when it comes to art historical scholarship.
There are 43 quintillion possible configurations on a Rubik’s Cube, and only one of those is correct. The cube functions as a distraction from the messiness of the world.
