This. Always this. 🥹

at 26 yrs I've figured this is what life is about: wearing nice outfits, playing music to urself & ur friends, supporting their art & projects, yummy food, helping other human beings, doing what u can to take care of the earth & doing this all in the face of oblivion & oppression

girl who is probably going to be okay but can’t get herself to believe that right now

🚨 PSA: This is what CHALLENGERS will do to the inside of your head.

Challengers could’ve been longer idgaf. Could’ve been three hours if possible

So proud of my #NYU students - Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Atheist - standing up against genocide. They are fearless, principled, energized.

looking for a 2 bed apartment, bills included for £200pm.

🚨 it's finally happening: WE ARE LADY PARTS season 2 babyyyyy

avclub.com/we-are-lady-pa…

Gorgeous piece and interview with a fave, Zineb Sedira.
Her exhibition 'Dreams Have No Titles' is not-to-be-missed at Whitechapel Gallery for Londoners, and it's travelling to Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation - Abu Dhabi this Oct!

ocula.com/magazine/conve…

I adapted my Master’s dissertation at SOAS University of London SOAS University of Londonanthro into this essay for @saaganthology — many publications are covering the state of Bollywood now, but I sought to explore the past few years since the pandemic to understand how it got here.
saaganthology.com/article/saffro…

Woman a Hard Worker Unless She's Tired, Hungry, or Doesn't Feel Like It: ow.ly/NECc50QTJi3

watch Da’Vine Joy in High Fidelity I’ve been saying

it was fun at first but i’m bored of reading the same internet cultural criticism essays over and over about girlhood/girl dinner/coquette/alienation/individualism/tiktok trends that will be gauche to do discourse about in a week. say something new and interesting please!

idk who needs to hear this, but all art, all curation, all writing, is political

that goes for arts/culture/research bureaucracy too

and what is the most overt, activist example of arts/culture bureaucracy being political?

when it starts warning against ‘politicisation’

For The New Yorker I wrote about the curse in “The Curse,” the racial dimensions of the supernatural, and financial speculation as white people’s black magic. newyorker.com/culture/cultur…

i'm not a 'hater' i'm a freelance cultural critic

In an address to the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature in 2008, John Berger gave a moving reading of Ghassan Kanafani's 'Letter from Gaza', written in 1956

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