Words: Isaac Quirke (he/him) ‘It was just for fun’ That’s what we pushed through wind-burned teeth on nuclear-occasions when the shit from the belly of the star was all around… Read More »Sometimes cool, mostly difficult
Words: Rachel Currie (she/her) Come winter or summer, everything is everywhere. It’s all right before me. It is bright; so bright. Pinned to my cork board, there he is. Zoltar… Read More »A Trip to the Seaside
Words: Alice McCloskey (she/her) Head bowed against the baptismal font, Wrapped in a permeating white. Face turned upwards,Not to the heavens –Nor to the aching grimace of the Son pinioned… Read More »Shedding
Words: Rebekah McCrorie (she/her) James wasn’t the only one to post a notorious apology video: Laura Lee, Jaclyn Hill, and Shane Dawson, amongst others, have all confessed their sins inside… Read More »Digital Deliverance: The Art of Apology Videos
Words: Anna Williamson (she/her) What we are sold as ‘self-improvement’ is, more often than not, self-erasure: the slow replacement of reflection with panoptic performance. It’s 2026: New Year, New You.… Read More »Panopticon Pilates: The Search for Self in a Digital World
Words: Ella Ramrayka Rogers (she/her) Think of the fantastical idea of the American West: a vast, empty plain, available for deconstruction. Is there a difference between colonial-era “conquistadors” and the… Read More »Mother Earth and the Violence of Land Purity
Words: Rachel Currie (she/her) It is utter catharsis to watch her find freedom from her mundane life of purity and dip her toe into a fantasy-fuelled alternative. ‘Sexual intercourse began… Read More »Bodice Rippers: Finding the Sexy in the Subtle
Words: Deepanjana Biswas (she/her) The ripe fruit of humanity has slipped out of its fleshy body into linguistic abstractions through our peculiar fixation on maternity. ‘Blessed is the fruit of… Read More »Mother-ing: Man’s Myth of Maternity
Words: Lorcan Adams (he/him) Years from now, the moderates of the future will look back on this genocide as an unavoidable tragedy, and forget the role their rhetoric played in… Read More »Yesterday’s Extremists, Today’s Icons: The Hypocrisy of Liberal Amnesia
Words: Gemma Sawyer (she/her) There is no good in being able to identify these patterns if we do nothing to prevent their power to indoctrinate If you weren’t familiar with… Read More »Violence for me, but not for thee