Ideas and absurdity and obsessive thought and starvation. I hold your image very close, so close to me. Close to my skin/ my larynx/ my thighs. I own you whole in your own gazing, you will never depart and never think about me at all, and that is just the way of things, and the […]
Absurd mourning. / Duelo Absurdo. Read More »
The 21-st century feminist has most likely seen Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag. Perhaps they have praised it for its unfiltered and incisive examination of the modern-day trials of womanhood. The character of Fleabag – like the rest of us – has a complicated relationship with feminism. Although, in my adoration of the show, I cannot claim
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I was probably 16 years old when I first learnt about the Bechdel Test. Five years into a seven-year stint at an all-girl’s’ school, I was learning most of my socio-political theory and nuggets of feminist knowledge from Meaningful Threads on Twitter, like every other blossoming social activist did at one point or another. For
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Is your boyfriend weirdly close with his mum? Are you wondering if he’s got mummy issues? Does he take the Tik Tok “Mommy” audio too far? Does he idolise Homelander from the Boys too much? Well girl, you’ve come to the right place. I’m here to arm you with 5 of the best ways to
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Sat around a tiny kitchen in Schafer House with three people I had met that day, I felt intimidated. We burnt through all of the typical freshers’ questions with only one left, “where are you from?”. Thirty minutes later the laughter continued, as me and the other two girls bonded over having eastern European mothers,
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Being the daughter of the perfect woman sucks. What sucks even more, is the invalidation that tags along. After all, it can’t be considered childhood trauma if your mother was the epitome of perfect so you end up blaming yourself for feeling anger towards the woman who treated you like her personal project. All those
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“Can I be both an image and an image maker?” Rooted in this question, Carolee Schneemann’s ‘Body Politics’ is affronting, feverish and unapologetically erotic. Spanning six decades, the exhibition is both exhaustive and exhausting as viewers are propelled through twelve zones and two stories in the Barbican’s vast gallery space. As its title suggests, ‘Body
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