Has Grayson Perry swooped in and saved the damsels in distress? Well, perhaps not entirely, but his book The Descent of Man certainly offers a refreshing, and necessary, male perspective on the position of white, middle-class men in the workforce within Western culture.
During the pandemic, youth have been forced to transfer their lives from school to extracurriculars onto digital platforms […]
Misha Glenny’s McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime shines a light on this shadowland, showing with startling insight just how far-reaching organized crime truly is.
Being under all of this stress caused discontent with myself. I felt like everything was falling apart and I didn’t have time to fix anything. But then COVID-19 had happened. Just as he world began to fall apart, my
world came to a standstill.
Through the preservation of flowers, which are often symbolic of femininity, delicateness and beauty, I challenged the objectification and notion that women are only meant to be fragile objects.
But if nobody is born good enough for our standards,
Then maybe all that we’re killing ourselves to achieve,
Is impossible.
Soon, these words took over my life.
Smaller equals Happier
Smaller equals Prettier
Smaller equals Feminine
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town, by Charles Bukowski is a short story about three complex themes: beauty, love, and death. As usual, Bukowski presents a deep and dark narrative full of self-destruction and decadence.
Looking at the reflection though, I know that I abandoned myself
Forgetting myself, I decided to let my doll outshine me
Making my doll lovelier than me…
There is more than what meets the eye. Within lies a beauty still unknown.