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Girlhood is a room with no lock
Girlhood is a room with no lockwhere the windows are always open. It smells like rain caught in hair,like notebooks filled with hearts that never finish closing.It is learning the shape of your nameby writing it on fogged glass,watching it disappear, writing it again....
Kites Know No Boundaries
My name is Tahera. I am fifteen years old.Right now, I live in Pakistan. But my story began in Kabul.Kabul was never peaceful, but it was alive. We measured the distance between joy and danger by the sound of explosions we often heard. Snow, cold days, our coal...
Goodbye 2025
What a year. We have had a real competition to be the most terrible years over the past decade, but this one really took its toll. Perhaps as a culmination of them all. How many of us feel better at the end of this year? I cannot say I have felt much worse. But we...
I Hate Men
Image from @ikeahostage_ on Pinterest A phrase I’ve heard all my life. Most commonly at the drawn-out end of a long club night. When the dregs of us make one final stumbling trip to the toilet and find another heartbroken girl, swallowed up by misery upon the bathroom...
Meet the Interns: Courtney Cardini
Hello, I'm Courtney Cardini — a dyslexic, ADHD-fueled traveler with a passion for art, history, and adventure. I'm an artist, independent curator, and travel blogger of www.courttheworld.com, blending creativity and curiosity wherever I go.I graduated from Penn State...
A Vast Sky
It started, with small things as many other things, both writing and publishing them, at least for me it was the case. And like many good stories do, it started with a picture. I was halfway through a cup of chai, scrolling, reading and doing nothing maybe, that I saw...
A Visit to Vardzia
Outside Vardzia, Georgia. Photo: Hannah Spencer In my journal, the first sentence I wrote about my trip to the cave-city monastery Vardzia, Georgia, was ‘It was SO hot today.’ This was true in Georgia nearly the whole summer. Even after insistence from my peers that I...
My Top 3 Feminist Reads: Her Body and Other Parties
Cover Art for Her Body and Other Parties, 2017. Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Machado, 2017 Following my earlier analyses of Madeline Miller’s Circe and Saba Sams’ Send Nudes, this final review examines Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other...
The Girl Who Didn’t Paint Pretty
Bridget Riley as a Girl by Helen Barnard, 2025. When Bridget Riley was a young artist, many people expected her to paint things they recognised, like lovely landscapes, bowls of fruit, or portraits of people. Art was supposed to be "pretty," they thought....
Meet our Interns: Sarah McGreevy
Kia ora! My name is Sarah. I’m from New Zealand and currently living in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. I grew up in a small town in the South Island called Blenheim with my parents and my older brother. I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honours and I have just recently...