ESSAYS

By the time November unfolded, with the bleak winds of my own recent heartbreak echoing through the digital void in the form of emo tweets, one solitary track from Dayseeker’s 2022 record, DARK SUN, had become the first song to be played each day on the way to work and everywhere else. “Crying While You’re Dancing,” on repeat, gradually solidified Dayseeker as my top-listened artist of the past…

“This Loneliness Won’t Be the Death of Me,” a song on Being as an Ocean’s record Dear G‑d, finds me unprepared on the bus one night, as I drive through the darkness of this city to get ice cream, covering up the fact that I feel utterly alone and don’t know what to do with myself at home. It’s a feeling I’ve grown all too familiar with—the pervasive…

Allen Ginsberg once said of Neal Cassady that he was the art. It is my opinion that Allen Ginsberg did not quite understand what art is.

See, there’s this thing about you—you were like this tiny droplet on a day of withering heat. When the days became indistinguishable from one another, filled with the absence of love, scorching summer suns blazed over my life like they had a personal vendetta against the ground beneath my feet. In the heat, just a single drop of water, fleeting and brief, felt like the downpour of the…

Heterosexueller Geschlechtsverkehr als zwanglose und beidseitig lustvolle Beschäftigung? Wünschenswert, doch herrscht in der Realität für viele Frauen das Gegenteil: Sexuelle Missachtung und Machtspielchen.

In Charlie Brooker’s reimagined 1969, two astronauts pioneer an interplanetary project which allows them to transfer their consciousnesses into artificial surrogate replicas on Earth.

“There’s this feeling, once you leave where you grew up, that you don’t totally belong there again. You can live whatever you want to live. Be whoever you want to be. You have time.”

„Ich wage einen Blick zum Wandkalender, wo die Deadline meiner Hausarbeit rot markiert ist. Während mein Hirn raucht und der Computer überhitzt, verdampfen die Tage wie flüssiger Stickstoff.“

Bei der Datingshow Princess Charming kam es vermehrt zu sexuellen Übergriffen. Eine Betroffene, Jo, meldet sich zu Wort. Dies hat Konsequenzen für sie selbst, die Täterin und für uns—die queere Community.

“This is exactly the point in the conversation where I have to make a choice.”