My Satisfyer Pro (2) Situationship

As August appears every year, so does a discrete package at the footstep of my family home.

ComedyGenevieve RipardFebruary 16, 2024comedy, sex, self-love

Porous Romance, love through degrees of obliteration

You move through the grain of closed eyes, calling through the undergrowth of my body.

LiteratureJake StarrFebruary 16, 2024poetry, love

The Great Magpesis: On Unrequited Love

We seem to think that our place on the spectrum between divinity and mayhem comes down to how loved we are.

LiteratureKate SaapFebruary 16, 2024romance, love, philosophy

Scalp

One by one, friends gloved their hands and got to work; my ridged, lumpy canvas morphing and shifting, follicles taking on new forms every fortnight.

LiteratureMiles Hiroshi HuynhFebruary 16, 2024creative writing, family, love

I am going to kill whoever's responsible for this.

I mean it. Honestly.

ComedyJames WilyJanuary 30, 2024pepsi, advertising, graphic design, comedy

Wet Sun

people watching. i peer ruthlessly from behind my darkened eyes. observing and absorbing like film.

LiteratureSoleil MistryJanuary 11, 2024poetry, europe, travel, art

Murky waters, murky pasts: the dark personal history of an Australian icon

The lives of these men are certainly more interesting than the movie they inspired, and perhaps a testament to the capacity for the Australian outback to swallow complicated figures whole.

CultureAidan Elwig PollockJanuary 8, 2024film, australia, crocodile, identity

Trend Tracking

Just as we can examine how society’s obsession with certain individuals indicates ever-changing and ever-dying social and political values, so can our study of a seemingly trivial and meaningless trend.

Culture, FashionNina WangDecember 24, 2023fashion, trends, harajuku, style, consumerism, coquette

Undressed to Impress

Hans Wegner’s PP250 Valet Chair: This chair ‘wasn’t really made for sitting.’

CultureLukas KalosDecember 21, 2023design, chair, hans wegner, innovation

The Sun Worshippers

Say Goodbye.

LiteratureJoan de la KagsawaDecember 21, 2023relationships, poetry, sydney, love, breakup

Selling Sex

Kate Saap sat down with ex-independent-sex-worker Lola Sinclair to do some market research.

CultureLola SinclairDecember 18, 2023relationships, sex, sex work, interview

Climate-Change-ing-My-Wardrobe

As the seasons falter in their usual rhythm, our closets become a reflection of this chaotic dance between Winter and Summer.

FashionElla ThomasDecember 17, 2023culture, fashion, climate change, sydney

Noumenia

The ‘Noumenia’ capsule collection draws inspiration from the captivating beauty and transformative energy of the phases of the moon.

FashionKadie DaoDecember 11, 2023photography, art, fashion, the moon

Small talk with your left-behind

I wonder whether she’s praying, or meditating, and whether she’s prone to impatience, but the 01:01 train arrives before I work it out. It takes four minutes to depart; four minutes to expose the translucent creature perched in her place.

Art, LiteratureClaudia BlaneDecember 8, 2023art, culture, trains, fiction, memory

THE PANORAMA REPORT

Your phone is hungry for the world, hungry to consume everything in front of you. Regular images are no longer enough, we must survey, collate, stitch together.

ArtSimon HarrisDecember 5, 2023photography, art, culture, panorama, iphone

Dependency

I am forced to remember it back again. The Sellotape-tear of flesh.

LiteratureAlexa Hansen WeeksNovember 27, 2023memory, sydney, reflection, mother, daughter, relationships

Haunting in reverse

Coming off antidepressants has been comparable to ‘coming off’ Mum, which I have been doing concurrently.

LiteratureCharlie KennedyNovember 27, 2023memory, sydney, reflection, mother, daughter, relationships

Fitzroy

I was caught like a fishhook / in the soft dab of my lower lip.

LiteratureZoe HercusNovember 27, 2023memory, poetry, sydney, reflection, persona

Meaningful Stone Interview

In conversation with Kim Jimin of Meaningful Stone — on 90’s rock bands, surfing and the spiritual power of the universal subconscious.

MusicJustine HuNovember 27, 2023art, culture, korean music, rock, meaningful stone

Specs of my core, Exploding outwards.

Inspired by works by Youssef Nabil, Shahin Alipour, Lalla Essaydi and Shirin Neshat, this series of photographs explores the beauty of seemingly ‘paradoxical’ intersecting identities; being from the SWANA region, queer, religious/ non-religious – a child of diaspora existing in the uncertainty between eastern and western culture.

ArtMax ChahineNovember 27, 2023photography, art, culture, Lebanese, catholicism