Kikokushijo: Returning Home
In Japanese there’s a word called kikokushijo. It’s a term that refers to Japanese children who have returned to their homeland after spending a period of their lives abroad. It’s a term that refers to people like us. All of our early childhoods were spent in Tokyo, but we haven’t lived here
Gilette, Cardi B and Chechnya’s Anti-LGBT Purge
Some things never change. Brexit is still a shitshow, masculinity is still fragile and The ISIS team have decided that what they’ve got to say is worth sharing with you. We figured that it can be hard to keep up with the rapid pace of news and pop culture during the busy weekdays so we’v
James Lavelle: The Man from Mo’Wax
Following his documentary film ‘The Man from Mo’Wax’, I spoke to James Lavelle about art, success, and geeky DJs. In 1992, the legendary Mo’Wax was formed. The label hailed the birth of trip-hop and went on to define an era of experimental breakbeats and downtempo music. Mo’Wax was a stapl
Photo Essay
This project started with a two-hour conversation about waistlines. I started thinking about how an accentuated waist makes me feel more feminine, but also makes me sharper in conversation. I know I’m much better at delivering a punchline in a pencil skirt than pyjamas. Each morning I plan my outf
Letter from the Marquesas
We board a tiny plane to Hiva Oa at dawn. An old fisherman sits next to me on the flight. He speaks in rapid, broken French whilst brandishing a photograph of his prize catch. Out of the window, I watch the land heave up in peaks then sink into valleys, falling in cliffs and buttresses. […]
‘Give me peace before I close my eyes’: words in The ISIS during the Great War, 100 years on
And so, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the guns finally fell silent, bringing to an end the most destructive war in Europe’s history. One hundred years on, there are many ways to look back on 11 November 1918. For students, perhaps none is more sobering than a
Fashion
Writhing, smiling, touching her teeth and her chest: those are the first images that greet you in the video for Bjork’s Big Time Sensuality (1993), the fourth single from her fittingly titled debut, Debut. She blinks and grins down the lens – spinning back and forth on the back of a moving truc
A Summer Sliced Up: my two months in a Singaporean kitchen
Saveur is an affordable French restaurant nestled between swish corporate offices and a busy shopping district. It has travelled a long way from its humble beginnings as a modest stall in the far-most corner of a large food court, the passion project of two young Singaporean chefs who sacked off the