With your cheek resting on the cool window of the train, the frosted countryside flashes past. Heading home for Christmas, finally. Your hometown may be the same but, somehow, you’ve changed. Time away from home has transformed you. Shedding the Topshop skinny jeans you once wore like a pretentious reptile […]
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Akutu-Carter’s | LGBT Family🇬🇧 (@that_a.c_life) Adoption is just one of the many routes that prospective parents (queer or otherwise) can take to form a family. But it is not aways seen as a first option with many choosing to opt for […]
Finding a sunscreen that doesn’t make me look ashy is a feat, and I know I’m not alone. But that doesn’t mean I don’t use it. To my fellow Black and brown people, please fight against the myths we grew up with. Just because we have more melanin doesn’t mean […]
EMT staff move a patient into an ambulance in front of Mt. Sinai Morningside Hospital on May 18, 2020 in New York City. COVID-19 has spread to most countries around the world, claiming over 320,000 lives and infecting almost 4.9 million people. (Photo by John Lamparski/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Over […]
As pharmaceutical companies start obtaining emergency use authorisations and manufacturing coronavirus vaccine doses as quickly as they can, wealthy nations are hedging their bets by reserving far more of those vaccine doses than they need. In fact, many of the world’s richest countries have enough doses spoken for to inoculate […]
In March, as coronavirus began its spread, photos depicting the rapidly shutting down globe disseminated: Once bustling streets were now empty. Playgrounds were closed, crime scene-tape wrapped protectively around jungle gyms and swing sets. Supermarket shelves, once laden with goods, were now barren. There was panic that the supply line […]
Over the last 11 months, a few of my more conservative friends have confessed to me that they think we’re in the “End Times.” I don’t buy it. But I have noticed this mentality creeping into my dating life amid the COVID-19 pandemic. I feel an unexpected new pressure to […]
Jupiter, computer artwork. There are many, many reasons 2020 went off the rails. But some would argue the planets played a pretty significant role. Starting with Jupiter: For the past year, the planet of abundance was in hard-working Capricorn, a supremely uncomfortable placement. That’s why we’re thrilled to learn that […]
Gwen Swinarton posted her first ASMR video on YouTube when she was in college as a gift to her then-partner. Five years later, Swinarton goes by Gwen or Gwen Gwiz online, and has over 400,000 subscribers on her primary ASMR channel, another 200,000 on a second channel, and almost 100,000 […]
While we’re sure you’ve enjoyed baking sourdough and foraging for mushrooms in your bloomers, we regret to inform you that the summer of cottagecore has come to an end (our condolences). Autumn has been and went and winter has arrived, ushering in a new core-style movement for us to obsess […]
