Ping Pong, Hayat, & the art of the staying alive: talking to Yeşim Duman
October 27, 2024 Recently I had the chance to sit down with COVEN friend Yeşim Duman to have a coffee in the sunlight to talk about the current iteration of…
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Teenage Dreams and Political Nightmares: An Interview with Charlie Jeffries
Ki Niehaus of COVEN Berlin interviews historian Charlie Jeffries about her 2022 book “Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars”.
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Holy Rebirth of a Youthful Pilgrim
We kiss and slowly undress, as we impatiently caress and taste each other’s bodies like two starved pilgrims at the end of their long walking day. We are both sweating a lot. Our bodies are hot with desire. I feel like a scallop floating in the ocean, soaked in the holy water of desire and touch.
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Ranting, Raving & Societally Changing in the 1600s – Meet The Ranters.
The Ranter address, sprinkling prose with conversation, comedy and swearing, parodies the staid measure of the spoken sermon to escape oppressive social restraints and voice disillusionment.
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In Spirit of The Adolescent: D’orjay The Singing Shaman On Spiritual Reintegration & Aid.
It was in 2020 when D’orjay, debuting Shit My Shaman Says: Volume I, a work Axe Pulse agnate in its anti-linear subversiveness, first came upon my newsfeed.
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Site of Desire
Emotional as in congratulations, mental illness runs in the family. Also, coronary heart disease.
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The 5 Ws of Having a Threesome
When considering having a threesome, there are five very important questions you should ask yourself to have the hottest and most fun experience possible for all parties involved.
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Commit to the Bit!
In the first episode of The Lonely Island (2001), Ardy, played by twenty-three year old Andy Samberg, all lips and shaggy curls, stars in a goofy early-90’s-hip-hop-MTV-style interlude. From the twin-sized bottom bunk on my ten-centimeter iPod screen, I studied this scene with adolescent gravitas.
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AXE PULSE – THE PHOTOS
As part of the large group exhibition titled How (Not) to Fit In – Metaphern der Adoleszenz at Villa Merkel, Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, in Esslingen, Germany, which ran from May 8 – July 17, 2022, COVEN BERLIN created the installation and environment we called AXE PULSE, eponymously named after our current magazine and curatorial theme (which can be read here).
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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.
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