Hoops, studs, cuffs, drop earrings. Fashion accessories, cultural identifiers, rites of passage, even methods of rebellion. For centuries, earrings have featured in every culture and …
Lizzie Borden’s Mirror
Have you ever axed someone? To death or just to grievous injury. (There is no real way to axe someone lightly. It is either final …
A Stream of Consciousness on How Sex and Love are Confusing Concepts to Place.
I don’t know how to love. Scratch that. I think I don’t know how to love. And actually, scratch that again. Because love isn’t the …
The beauty-fuckability standard
[Content warning: mention of eating disorders and body image issues.] “I don’t understand how women have body image issues. I just don’t get it.” It …
“Right Person, Wrong Time” is a Sugar Pill
A tribute to recent conversations, which explored how “right person, wrong time” is a sugar pill, a placebo remedy to matters of heartbreak. “Right person, …
Stuck/Unstuck
“The versatility of time”, I thought to myself while figuring out what I wanted to write for the upcoming issue of BRIZO magazine. I kept …
Nostalgia, the art of bittersweet longing
During lockdown, nostalgia has become a kind of addiction for me. I search for it everywhere – every evening walk with my dog makes me …
How Childhood Myths Became Sobering Accounts of Societal Injustices
Bailam corujas e pirilamposEntre os sacis e as fadas.E lá no fundo azulNa noite da florestaA lua iluminouA dança, a roda, a festa…[O Vira, Secos …
On the Peculiar Nature of Emotional Time Travel
Following my grandfather’s death, my mother kept several of his jackets and sweaters lodged away in the deeper part of her closet. She put them …
The Magic of Food
‘Food’, my Dad begins, stretched out languorous and pleasantly full after one of my Mum’s legendary Sunday dinners, in the back garden amongst the summery …