The Rise and Fall of Internet Poetry
What if someone were to tell you that practically everything on the internet – from LOLcats to facebook chat conversations, from Viagra adverts in spam e-mails to inane tweets – was potentially of poetic value? That bloggers, and creators of viral videos and animated GIFs, play a similar role in
Afghan Woman’s Hour
Zarghuna Kargar, the former producer and presenter of the ground-breaking radio show, Afghan Woman’s Hour, speaks to the ISIS.
Photo Essay – Gedi Ruins
The Gedi Ruins are the remains of an ancient Swahili coastal town.
Cockfighting
Cockfighting has been illegal in England since 1845, but the practice continues to flourish within the law in many parts of the world, including the coastal Peruvian village of Nepena. Organisers of cockfights in Britain can incur prison sentences and fines, but champion cock breeders in Nepena win
Menstrual Taboos
“Contact with menstrual blood turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die… Even that very tiny creature the ant is said to be sensitive to it,” wrote the Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder in his Natural History in AD 77. Taboos surrounding menstruation can almost
The Right Kind of Madness
image credit: flickr, ashley rose There is something that doesn’t quite add up in the ‘reality TV’ industry. As a sector, it is very anxious to cover its tracks: applicants agree not to disclose any aspect of the selection process and networks claim they enforce thorough psychological screenin
