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 …
Textiles and Materials of Discrimination
The Restless Child
I have always been an introverted person, and I have always largely lived in my own head, often getting lost in my daydreams. When I …
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 …
The Candid Works of Instapoet Hollie McNish
As we crawl further and further into the murky depths of the technological age, it comes as no surprise that what was once deemed a …
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 A Word
I remember watching Sex and the City for the first time a little over a year ago. Having heard so much about it, but never …
a conversation for one
16:00 on the clock; it seems to spark a ritualistic series of events. Footsteps sound, shuffling towards the kitchen, the hinges on the door echoing …
KEEP OUT
I told myself no more would I afford the privilege of giving away my heart. I spent endless hours, dragging HEAVING these colossal wrought-iron chains …
So let’s talk about the meat paradox
Meat tastes amazing and no one will ever be able to deny that. Before I stopped eating meat, Panda Express Orange Chicken was my absolute …
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 …