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Nov 21, 2020

REVIEW: The Rape Clause (2020)

The Rape Clause (written and directed by Jared Watmuff) is one those films that makes you almost forget to breathe — as though you come to and exhale only as the credits finish. Set in modern-day Britain, the film explores the harrowing consequences of the 2017 reform to Child Tax…

Short Film Review

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REVIEW: The Rape Clause (2020)
REVIEW: The Rape Clause (2020)
Short Film Review

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Apr 1, 2020

The virtue of mildness

I nearly look at you as I describe the fault lines beneath my skin — pale and stretched tightly like gauze. I’m still unsure of what I’m saying, like I’m speaking with a thick felt tip pen. A sip of water and ‘I don’t know’ excuses me from the conversation…

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Apr 1, 2020

A Protracted March

“It’s the end of life as we know it!” declare the village criers, throwing tarot cards into the air over a feverish crowd. “The invisible killer!” writes the spin doctor with the persistent cough. I bask in the balmy comfort of my youth — the round plumpness of my white…

Covid-19

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Covid-19

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Apr 1, 2020

Temperate

The end of summer. A prescient chill in the midday air, A tight forehead and a skull thick like iron wool. Laugh lines that don’t fade with passing hilarity. There are no nuances in single digit white wine, nor fructose nor glucose for sun-drunk bees. Plastic wool sliding over cold shoulders — an autumnal refrain. You aren’t going to give my umbrella back, are you? A sweater, an umbrella. Both died as martyrs to lust, buried in a makeshift graveyard.

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Apr 5, 2019

Short film review: Hey You (2019)

Disclaimer: This review may contain spoilers In 2017, reports of a brutal anti-gay purge in Chechnya made headlines. In response to the accusations, Alvi Karimov, a spokesperson for the Chechnyan leader, claimed that the reports can’t be true as ‘gay people do not exist in Chechnya’. …

LGBTQ

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LGBTQ

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Nov 2, 2018

Unexpected Item (2018) review

Directed by Stephen Gallacher, Unexpected Item is the tender tale of a boy building up the courage to talk to a girl — with the help of a self-service checkout. …

Unexpecteditem

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Unexpected Item (2018) review
Unexpected Item (2018) review
Unexpecteditem

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Oct 29, 2018

Debt, Low Self-Esteem and Addiction: Beneath the Crown of the ‘Shopping Queen’

At the tender age of 19 I went to university. Acutely aware of the upcoming challenge of building a new, adult identity, I purged my wardrobe of any clothing that could belie my previous life as a badly dressed teenager. The stakes were high: at Cambridge University I could no…

Influencer Marketing

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Influencer Marketing

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Oct 29, 2018

Catching Butterflies

On Sundays, Hannah and I would walk into the edges of the jungle and catch butterflies. It was a comfortable routine for both of us. She would knock on my door at around 5 o’clock, when the heat began to soften, wearing cream trousers and a boxy white blouse, holding…

Short Story

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Short Story

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Oct 29, 2018

7 Things to Ask Your Berlin Boyfriend

Besides the black wardrobe, mild substance addiction and ever-present mental voice that implores you to ‘just be more open-minded’ as you lock eyes with someone sipping an apfelschorle while they get a blowjob in a club bathroom, the ultimate Berlin accessory is the Berlin Boyfriend™. If you’re reading this, you’ve…

Berlin

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Berlin

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Mar 26, 2015

The Twilight of Youthful Innocence — What it Means to Accept Mortality

In life, our contemplation of mortality doesn’t come gradually, it hits us quickly, in moments of painful, frightening and sobering clarity. The first time I considered mortality was when I realised that my parents were mortal. I was suddenly old enough to realise that they were not superhuman — the…

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