SALIVA

This looks like a photo that’s been edited to appear almost drawn. Featured is a group of people waiting at some kind of bus stop-shelter. The photo is shot from above, like from a drone or the window of an apartment overlooking the stop. Of the people there, you can clearly make out a man talking to two women.

Site of Desire

Emotional as in congratulations, mental illness runs in the family. Also, coronary heart disease.

Tumblr user with false horns and a text collage displaying the words "part boy part god" over the demigender flag

QTGRL.Me Girlonline At The End of An Era

The internet in the 2010’s was a very special time and place to come of age as a trans woman. It was right at the end of old systems of categorization and identification, as well as the old internet.

Collage of various chumbox advertisement thumbnails: images of people, skin, and runny eggs.

Feelings at the Edge: A Chumbox Tour

The scene is all too familiar, the gestures rehearsed. It begins with the innocence of casual browsing, the wide-eyed wonder as you click and scroll, traipsing around some mildly interesting news article. Then it leers at you, inevitable and horrible.

A soft, blurry, circular, geometric pattern of blue and white

Initiation.

This is the story of my arrival to Berlin.

1. The setting. (Separation) t is spring 2019, and I have just moved to Berlin. I am filled with excitement and curiosity to rediscover the city I was born in, but that I haven’t lived in since I was a toddler. I am still able to romanticise the U-bahn and the fact that I sleep in a bare room on a shitty mattress. It suits the coming of age narrative I created in my head. The 30 days I spent here so far have been full of encounters and activities, as if I made it my goal to explore each facet of the city as fast as possible.

A black and white ink drawing of barren plants surrounded by a thin, wiggly border

soul death in a digital dating app

Have you ever walked into a room on a warm evening and noticed an unpleasant odor? So unpleasant and complicated that it is visible to the naked eye?

I haven’t smoked for two months, yet I wake up every day with an acid taste in my mouth. The bitterness that I reflect to others mirrors the bitterness within me. It’s a bitterness so rich with associations, so raw and complicated.

A 15th century depiction of Ivar and his brother Ubba sailing to England. Ivar and Ubba stand in the front of the ship each wearing armor, a weapon resembling a spear and a crown. They are surrounded by multiple people also wearing armor and holding up weapons. The waves and clouds that surround the ship indicate a stormy sea.

Ivar’s Sea

The feeling of mud on Ivar’s feet was one of his favorites. When he was still a small child, the most thrilling sensation was the touch of water and earth on his thin skin.

A pencil style drawing of a bunch of small black non-detailed figures trapped in an interior space made of 2D walls. Some of the figures are in motion, bouncing chaotically off one another, and others are struggling to leave the enclosure or sitting alone. The tone is sad and trapped.

A Return To The Scene of the Crime: Sex, Intimacy, and Healing From Childhood Trauma

It wasn’t until I was in my early 20s and living with my first partner that I began to realize just how much the physical abuse I faced as a…

Animorphs, revisited

Do you remember them? Did you read them, or do you just remember the covers? Girls turned into starfish, boys into tigers, and it was beyond wacky. I remember staring…

An image of installed art. A cement tire sculpture is visible in the foreground, and other artwork can be seen through the center and around the sides of the sculpture.

LUCKY Collective Statement and Exhibition Guide

COVEN BERLIN met four years ago with the idea of pursuing a sex positive, genderbending, non-dogmatic project based on feminism, art, and love. It was born around a kitchen table…

A sketch in blue ballpoint pen of a person with a head covering holding an object. A yellow-green ghost is to the right of the figure. The left side of the frame is blank. The levels of the image have been adjusted to make the contrast appear more extreme.

The Little Gaze

Last winter I came to visit my partner in Berlin. I noticed that I was spending a lot of time thinking about which homeless person to give my money to….