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The Unruly Appetite: Inside The Last Pancake

What if the person who could teach us how to recover is the person we were before we learned to be afraid?

Eilean Lough-Phare

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Hyper-Femininity and Simulation in Post-Internet Contemporary Art

Contemporary artists are using hyper-feminine aesthetics to blur the line between performance and identity.

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Vindictive Survival

On dragging ugly trauma into the spotlight and insisting on making it beautiful

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The Political Implications of the Selfie

The selfie is neither simply a symptom of narcissistic capitalism nor straightforwardly a tool of the oppressed

Isobel Slocombe

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Between Belonging and Singularity

In an age where identity is increasingly performed, curated, and endlessly reproduced online, what does it mean to remain genuinely singular?

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The Spectacle of Femininity in Crisis

Miss Piggy, the Makeover, and the Hysteric in Revolt

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Another Autist Crashes Out Due to Office Job

The Wework is just an office space, but to me… to me it represents so much more.