Finding – Beautifaire

14 Sep

Priestess, sorceress and spellcaster Isabella Greenwood speaks to trans witches about how their craft and gender identity complement and inform one another Witchcraft is, in its purest essence, queer. It's a practice that affirms reference to our truest selves, while also superseding oppressive, patriarchal and heteronormative hierarchies. It's a practice that encourages authentic self-expression in addition to providing tools for self-preservation, should that self-expression be threatened. It is usually something that has historically protected minority groups, and given power to those that needed it essentially the most. As a spiritual practice that requires honest and unbridled expression of oneself, it is not any surprise that throughout history there have been several recorded accounts of...

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13 Jul

Finding ways to attach along with your body after

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Experiencing the illness and death of somebody near you possibly can often leave you feeling disconnected out of your body and your emotions, writer Freya Bromley shares how she found healing in sex and wild swimming How often do you ask to be held? Or tell a friend you wish a hug if you end up struggling and need to feel protected and supported? “Physical touch is as essential because the oxygen we breathe in, the food we eat,” says Dr McGlone, professor of neuroscience. It’s fundamental to our wellbeing, our mental and physical health, and yet our buttoned-up culture often discourages and appears down on asking for help, admitting you must be...

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2 Jan

Diddy Shares The Latest On Finding Love Again After

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Photo: Getty Just as a love story is evolving, it sometimes ends abruptly. This has been the case for Sean Combs, popularly often known as Diddy. As his ex-girlfriend Kim Porter’s four-year death anniversary fast approaches, Diddy sat down with artist Teyana Taylor on Bumble’s latest bi-weekly YouTube series Luv2SeeIt’s to debate finding love again. “[We learn more from] losing love,” the 52-year-old said. “It’s the one way you kinda understand how vital it's. All of the heartache that anybody’s ever been through. That’s the thing that basically makes you appreciate the times you really felt that and truly received that love. While you lose that unconditional love is once you put some respect on love’s name.” Porter and Combs dated between 1993...

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27 Dec

The photographer finding strength in being an ‘unlikeable’ woman

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Millicent Hailes is an unlikeable woman. “I don’t quite fit into small, quiet, sometimes invisible spaces anymore. I'm going beyond where a likeable woman should go,” she says. A creative director based between LA and London, Hailes has spent the last decade cleaving at the perimeters of up to date womanhood – borders that, she believes, are less permeable than culture might let on. Since graduating from LCF in 2012, Hailes has turned her hand to photography and filmmaking, collaborating with a few of pop’s most recognisable protagonists – Billie Eilish, Dorian Electra, Migos, and Young Thug – while her personal work supplants staid notions of desire and acceptability via strip clubs and feminine bodybuilders. Last yr, Hailes funnelled these ideas...

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