WOMEN IN COLOUR
The shoot started off as a simple exploration of makeup – how we use it, how we don’t, how we love it, how we don’t. It’s a strange tension that unravels into latent discomfort the more I think about it. Why do I use makeup? If it’s empowering, why am I paying for it? The […]
Poetry
The hired car rolls, wriggling down south along the river, away from the colonial glamour of the Bund (among which is gemmed their hotel: young, alcoholic, cosmopolitan), towards, now visible in quiet prominence, the PSA, with its clean geometry: concrete box & long line of a smokestack, stickin
Weekly Roundup: AI, Gay Rights and High-Speed Trains
Shamima Begum, IS teenage bride, wants to return One of three schoolgirls who left east London in 2015 to join the Islamic State group says she has no regrets, but wants to return to the UK in order to have her child. There’s been a lot more coverage of British men leaving to join ISIS […
Poetry
reading your facial expressions i interpret screenplay, dramatizations of us rendered larger than life in a rousing performance of scientific discovery you softly diagnose anatomical anomalies: brow bone, lumbar vertebrae, clavicle – skin-adhered-eyes in lab-issue goggles, curiosity unchecked,
Remembering the Emo Music of the Midwest
704 West High Street in the college town of Urbana, Illinois is no ordinary house. Lying in a leafy midwestern suburb, with weeds pushing through the sidewalk cracks and an overgrown front yard, a passerby could be forgiven for not looking twice at its bleached horizontal planks and single window. J
Investigations
A background throb of birds and insects. Then the quiet chanting, tinny and dampened as if playing through a radio. Then the gentle scraping and clacking of tea being made as the black title screen fades to a beautiful palette of browns, and we first see Kusum. My second viewing of Burning Birds fee
Short Fiction
The stone path stretched away around the sun-bleached rocks and out of sight. Scanning her eyes further up towards the Cloud Rock of La Cumbre, she could spy grey horizontal streaks and bobbing pips along the oblique route to Roque Nublo, betraying walkers making their slow journey. It was the symbo
WEEKLY ROUND UP: Truancy, Green Deal and Emojis
A little truancy goes a long way On Friday, thousands of British school kids are going to be on ‘school strike’ to protest against the government’s stoic resistance to effectively combating climate change. A plethora of other countries, including Australia, Belgium and The Netherlands, have al
Poetry
Don’t forget the hiding thought that made the moon so embarrassed. I’m embarrassed too moon, for you & your second-hand shine. Your eclipsing self-regard, your fictional solace above in a nova of salt angels & astronauts fucking on your aromatic moon belly washing away the footprints of