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SUCH A FLOOD

* 4 CARD SPREAD Okay, so you’ve only got €4 left in your bank account and it’s annoying that they won’t let you take that out. But are you even…

WORK WEEK SAMPLE

A few weeks ago I set out to write about being a freelancer for COVEN’s current theme LABOR OR LABOR. I wanted to share a sample of my workday, or maybe some highlights from…

SUN IN THE OFFICE

My hands have become a bit autonomous, and it’s a huge relief. I love that they now pick up dishes on their own, turn the dial of the washing machine…

What matters about matter? In the October edition of VULVA CLUB,f riendship-based collective female trouble hosted an evening around different intellectual notions of matter, material, and materiality. They drew from…

INTERVIEW WITH MARI LUZ ESTEBAN

Mari Luz Esteban is a feminist anthropologist who studies the body and human emotions. She teaches at the Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), where she is also a mentor for…

INTERVIEW WITH FEMINIST ARTIST AGATA CARDOSO

It’s hard to miss Agata Cardoso’s work, amongst the familiar sea of stereotypical saccharine images that claim to summarize femininity today. Working solely in analogue, her photography is a hypnotic…

A pen and pastel drawing on white paper of caricatured and loosely drawn faces. The faces are defined in black pen, while blue, orange, pink, red, yellow and green pastel is smeared between and around the outlines. The texture of the paper is visible.

BITTER VICTORIES

The second time I went out socially after moving to London, a stranger forced me under pressure to out myself to the group we were sitting with, while discussing how…

I DO NOT PERFORM MY GENDER – I PERFORM MY BODY, AND MY BODY IS A PROSTHESIS FOR EVERYTHING I DO DESIRE

I don’t see a prosthesis as a replacement for something missing, but rather as an adaptive mechanism for the environment. Let’s think in a parallel between the variables 1 and…

UNDERSTANDING THE ORCHID

[Breathes in, out] Hi, good evening. I’m here talking to you guys and I’m so happy to be here talking to you guys. I, ah, I have just a couple…

LABOR OR LABOR – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS #5

Imperialist and sexist systems of control are imprinted in the way society thinks about, and acts around, labor. Be it how we work, how we give birth, or how we…