Running out of time: charli XCX, Children & the Environment

“it’s unlikely you’ll be performing another Boiler Room set with an infant. So likely yes. Charli sees her life branching out before her, ripe with opportunity.”

CultureSasha BlackmanOctober 1, 2024charli xcx, childhood, family

Mucha, So Confusing

“To say, “this is a cigarette ad”, in the same way I can say, “this is a pillow”, or “this is a bookmark”. But isn’t summing it up reductive?”

CultureAden ZakiOctober 1, 2024music, music history, pop music, charli xcx

Please, Please, Please Father: Catholic Repression and Irish Boy Obsession

These men are vulnerable, honest, and embarrassed. Hot, hot, and hot. We want them to be a little nervous, a little objectified. They don’t want us looking at them! It’s fun, right? And really, after all the money for acting school or the Trinity College drama course, surely, they should’ve expected this?

CultureAlice HeffernanSeptember 23, 2024ireland, catholicism, sex, desires, film

Geo metrics

your eyes wander to their new leaves

curling at the sky -

110 emblazoned to the left of the screen,

you search for truth in their cycles but

CultureJem RiceSeptember 23, 2024poetry, prose poetry, people-watching

Gleaning

Ever wonder what you might find in what is left behind?

“Some glean because they have been left no choice, others have sought out the gleaning lifestyle to participate ethically in society.”

Ondine Karpinellison sifts through the weeds.

Culture, RecessOndine KarpinellisonSeptember 4, 2024climate change, food, food writing

Being Killed To The Limits of Eternity: Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Pasolini cleverly subverts the cinematic techniques of excitement to be in service of pure horror.

Film, CultureGeorge McMillanJuly 11, 2024salo, cinema, filmmaking

Watching Men Wrestle: Sport and the Female Gaze

While male athletic achievement is an aesthetic ideal immortalised in the Hellenistic visions of Greek sculpture up to the fake-tanned contorted bodies of bodybuilders, female athleticism is an object of horror.”

Culture, SportsMia RetallackJuly 11, 2024sport, wrestling, female gaze

Mirrors

I sit cross-legged before the mirror yet again. What do I see? I see a face. Is it me, or some Other?”

CultureAlexa Hansen WeeksJuly 11, 2024identity, self-reflection, place

Rest

This is not a call for a return to the divine or the premodern, we only aim to contrast what was once common sense with what has now become radical.

CultureSimon Harris & Lizzy KwokJuly 11, 2024rest, time, culture