Sav arrives home from school late, flushed from cold air and aching limbs. She had circled her bike up and down the length of the prom between Callum’s house and the turn off for her road for hours. She had thought she might run into Callum, or find a nice spot to sketch the ocean … Continue reading Excerpt from an abandoned novel.
ohne x Mude Threads content collaboration “On social media, in the hands of these artists and brands and activists, the male gaze becomes redundant. There is absolutely no question of who these images are made for and who these bodies are serving. They’re for us. You can only look at our bodies because we chose to … Continue reading Mude Threads: ‘Gaze at Something Else’
Mystery Vibe x ohne content collaboration Despite what urban legend would have many of us believe, there actually isn’t any scientific proof that hormonal birth control directly causes a drop in the libido of the person taking it. In fact, in 2013, the European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Healthcare published a study which evaluated … Continue reading Mystery Vibe: What Drives Your Sex Drive?
June. Skin everywhere. I remember that much. On the bar top. Legs almost as high and just as exposed and bare and covered in the dust which always collects in pubs like that one. Pubs that have always been and will always be old. Old in dusty corners and in smell and in the men … Continue reading Mosquito Bites
It started with Hayley Kiyoko’s Girls Like Girls video. With that echoing, heartbeat-beat and the young girl with the cuts on her face and the way the video felt like warm summer and nostalgia before Kiyoko even began to sing. It started with something like recognition, something like, I see you, I see me. Continue reading Tell Me Why My Gods Looked Like Mick Jagger: On Falling in Love With Queer Pop Music
The scene-setting notes for the novel I’m reluctant to even admit I’ve started (commitment and I are not pals). Here there are quarries pink and lined like the life lines inside a tree. Sometimes, if you’re very far away from a town, you’ll find one with an old piece of machinery or two nearby. I’ve seen … Continue reading Notes on a Non-Existent Novel.
Bolivia, I did not fall in love with you and your airless cities, your soot-soaked mines. But how many times did I try to write you into a poem? Some story that would turn you beautiful, try to write you down before I knew you, touched your crevices and cobbled streets, let your thin air seep through … Continue reading If This Is What Remains
On Friday, 4th May 2018, Protesters took to the streets across Spain to protest this ruling on the grounds that it places blame for such attacks on the shoulders of the victims. Fight harder, scream louder, dress more modestly, etc., etc. – we’ve heard it all before. Continue reading The Night is Also Ours: A Protest Photo Essay
My parents sleep with all the doors and windows open
Top floor city block safe
Street loud now at one am as I stand in the kitchen
Alone as 3pm sun heating the ancient stone Continue reading Not the Clouds but Better
There was this girl I knew when I was a kid. Ten, eleven maybe. We were in a few classes together. Her name was Marcella, but everyone knew her as Marcy. She was intimidating in that way that girls in the mid-2000s who played football with the boys and wore baggy basketball shorts and held … Continue reading Marcella: A Short Story
Isabella Millington 