The Anti-Shag Pact
Place, Culture Jess Martin Place, Culture Jess Martin

The Anti-Shag Pact

The conversation drifted, as conversations sometimes do, to the logistical difficulties of sharing a six-bed dormitory where sex could in fact occur in your bed without your knowledge. 

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Is Being Gay Cool Now?
Culture Annabelle Bullock Culture Annabelle Bullock

Is Being Gay Cool Now?

Or maybe it’s not the fact of ‘gayness’ itself that’s cool, but the cultural cachet earned from having gay people in your social circle, however tenuous or protracted that proximity might be?

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Becoming Pink
Culture Lily Wroblewski Culture Lily Wroblewski

Becoming Pink

My dance with the Pink Masked Woman was my access point into a side of my feminine that had been curled into a ball, rolling from place to place.

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Simple Beautiful Things
Culture, Art Sasha Blackman Culture, Art Sasha Blackman

Simple Beautiful Things

After interacting with the most pompous security guards on Earth, having their bags searched as though they are about to embark on an international flight, and parting ways with €12.50, they finally enter the museum.

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Ashwinpur
Culture Purny Ahmed Culture Purny Ahmed

Ashwinpur

She could imagine the scene outside. The younger kids would be kicking around a ball, careful to not shoot it out of the tree-goalposts and directly into the pond.

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How To Brine Olives
Culture Calista Burrowes Culture Calista Burrowes

How To Brine Olives

The Greek diaspora reminds me of the olives that have fallen around the trunk of my olive tree. Some have fallen on their own, others in aging clusters.

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No More Need For Greenwashing
Culture Jessica Watson Culture Jessica Watson

No More Need For Greenwashing

We hear the message that we are not on track, we have missed the deadline, there is no turning back. These ideas build on a narrative which is cloaked in familiar rhetorical patterns and continues to serve corporate interests, centring on the idea that technological innovation will shape our future, somehow transcending the bounds of the planet’s finite resources.

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