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TWO TINY FOOD-RELATED LOVE POEMS

#1 I’m thankful that you are not a health food product, I don’t want to choke you down. You can be the morning smoothie for when I’m bad I’ll…

A black and white image of a rumpled bed with white sheets and a floral duvet thrown to the side. The white pillow has another darker pillow peeking out from underneath, and a bright window is behind the bed. The wrinkle pattern in the fabric is most heavily emphasized. A paper with text printed on it is on the far corner of the bed.

RELEARNING LOVE

During Coven’s Feminist Conqueerors exhibition, I co-hosted a discussion about queer femme experiences, and I’m not exaggerating in the slightest when I say that it changed my life. This has…

MANIFESTO ON FREEDOM / MANIFESTO OF MY BODY

We must impress in our minds: Freedom does not exist. I have never understood the people who pursue Freedom like dogs chasing a mechanical rabbit at a race; ‘mechanical’ here…

SUBTLE CEILING – A VISUAL INTERVIEW

SUBTLE CEILING is a mixed media artist/illustrator + zine maker + workshop facilitator. They answered 9 verbal questions with 9 visual answers. ♥ What is your life motto? ♥ Do you believe…

WHEN I FUCK YOU I THINK OF HIM

These images were created in in the ruins of love. A selection of 10 drawings documenting the dissolution of a relationship and the birth of the new. You need to…

UNWANTED COMMENTS A column by Eve T A collection of unfortunate prejudiced remarks and conversations we’ve heard, which somehow make for stupendous anecdotes. Valérie. Montreal. Mid-twenties. Winter….

GO LOVE YOURSELF

How do we learn how to love? Where? Who from? My school teacher would reply: “the guy is driving you crazy but just because he likes you! He harasses you,…

RURRU MIPANOCHIA – A VISUAL INTERVIEW

Rurru Mipanochia is a Mexican illustrator whose work addresses sexuality outside the mainstream physical standards. She answered 9 verbal questions with 9 visual answers for COVEN Berlin’s new issue LOVE…

STEFANA FRATILA

I met Stefana on a sticky summer day at the Berliner Ernst Thälmann Park, named after a former Communist Party leader. With grey Soviet plattenbau buildings in the background, I…

EVERYBODY WANTS TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT LOVE

There, some thoughts on the matter. Miscellaneous. Everyone wants to say something about love, don’t we? love is the most perfect form of social repression if god was…