Icon of the Week: Martian Moves
Before their out-of-this-world parties, Martian Moves’ Luca Burgess, Michael Donlon, and Louis Bryan started mixing as a matter of necessity. Luca went to Pirate Studios during lockdown with mates simply because it “was one of the only places open during COVID”; after a surgery that mea
PRESSURE POINT: Elon Musk wants to take over our governments. Why are we letting him?
On Sunday, the German parliamentary elections took place, with a majority of seats going to right-wing candidates. The CSU, a Christian conservative group, secured the largest number of seats in the Bundestag, with 28.6% of the vote. However, it is without a doubt the second-place winners, the AfD (
Panda Porn and Jurassic Park: why should we conserve species that refuse to have sex?
You know the vac has reached a new low when you start searching up panda porn. Not the actual stuff—which is both visual and auditory for maximum stimulation—but the long Wikipedia article on it. “What sort of sick person creates this,” I hear you cry. The answer: some of the w
Icon of the Week: Patra
Patra Urairat performed her single ‘Aftercare’ live for the first time after its release in Univ Bar earlier this month. For the first time in her life, she had an audience screaming her lyrics back to her and dancing to the beats she and her partners had taken so long producing. I met he
PRESSURE POINT: Drawing the line in the Middle East
Bad ideas are being drawn up over the Middle East. Donald Trump has called for a US takeover of Gaza in order to turn it into the “riviera of the Middle East”, expelling 2.1 million Palestinians in the process. This is a proposal for ethnic cleansing on a level not seen since the Second [
Feminists don’t wear blue: OnlyFans and prostitution as a “Power Move”
A woman prostituting herself is the ultimate feminist power move. Right? It implies a reclamation of agency, a role reversal. A man does not make money from a woman’s body, as pimps have done for centuries. The woman gets paid cash for her enjoyment of sex! She is the ultimate #womaninmalef
Stranger than fiction: Luigi Mangione and the limits of narrativisation
Is there anything “folksy” about UPenn? Is there anything “radical” about enjoying Atomic Habits and The Huberman Lab? Is there anything “relatable” about your family owning a country club? Does any of that even matter? People have been struggling to make sense of how Luigi
Icon of the Week: Rebecca Harper
Going through the transcript of my conversation with Rebecca felt like deciphering a lost language. We sat down at Society Café at prime time and my poor iPhone microphone couldn’t phase out the bustle. About three minutes into the recording, we devolve into hysterics over our mutual love for Joh
PRESSURE POINT: Put that Ukraine flag back up
Trump’s call with Putin yesterday was a long time coming, but that didn’t make it any less of a shock for Europe: a few people from a fake-sounding place like “Pennsylvania” changed their minds last year, and now it’s finally your problem. Credible journalists are reporting that cur
