Fallen Women
CW: references to sexual assault. The seductress, the prostitute, the murderess: these are but a few symbols which the Fallen Woman has taken throughout history – symbols which have reduced the women in question to unrelatable imitations, unreflective of lived experiences. The ways in which
The Isis Podcasts: In Conversation with Mark Haddon
Join The Isis for a conversation with the author of the best-selling The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, discussing the pressures of literary success, the affects of lockdown on his creative process, and his recent graphic short story, Social Distance. Listen on Spotify: https://open.
The Isis Podcasts: In Conversation with Theo Kwek & Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
Join The Isis for a conversation with the poets Theo Kwek and Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, discussing creativity in lockdown, identity in poetry, and their experiences of Oxbridge. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Q3YUDRZWTEWxGaStAP2ut?si=e8HsGQnvR525mdaQrNE45w
Queer Manifestos
I was late at night, I was bored, and a stack of unread books was calling me. Among these was Breanne Fahs’ Burn It Down!: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution. As a queer woman, I immediately flipped to Fahs’ carefully curated section on queer manifestos. Instead of the more modern manifestos
Voices from the Entr’acte
“You’re not performing femininity in a way that we can read onstage, so you’re failing at performing this,” says Aiden K. Feltkamp, recalling the rehearsal process for a scene from Rossini’s Barber of Seville. Feltkamp – a transgender non-binary writer based in New York City – trained
Drifting Bridge
You are up on the bridge, my friend. You used to deliver heavy household equipment all over the country— hands of leather, moving like silk. One morning, many years ago, you blew into my house on a wood-violet breeze and landed inexplicably in the kitchen doorway. The setting sun spans the valley
Telling with my eyes
This piece was originally written by the hugely influential Japanese poet Kenji Miyazawa. Despite his many contributions to Japanese literature, his work is seldom translated into foreign languages due to his ascetic values which kept it hidden from the public eye. This piece is an attempt to intro
Mimicry
Mimicry She stoops to worship Mimicry, old, borrowed and belly-full of what has already been the start and end of ideas. She rewrites Genesis with a stale bible; a tea-ringed, deadened […]
The Scam of the Morning Routine
What does a Successful Person do in the morning? The answer, it would seem, if you read enough articles about the CEOs of fashionable start-ups, is a lot: they get up at 5:45am, drink a glass of ice-cold lemon water, run a marathon, take some grateful breaths in the shower, and still find time to [&