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5 Mar

2025 Horoscope: It’s the grand finale before the rise

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2025 Horoscope: It’s the grand finale before the rise
Grace McGrade is an intuitive astrologer and priestess based in Los Angeles. She is the host of the podcast Bitchcraft: Spirituality for Bad People. For more astrology, read her guide to rising signs and moon signs. 2024 led to unmistakable Aquarian fashion: with drones and celestial anomalies spotted across the skies, growing discourse about aliens beneath the ocean, and the glorification of Luigi Mangione, a romanticised murderer with a noble, collective cause. A surrealist cultural and political landscape lies ahead, as Pluto has barely begun his journey through essentially the most unusual of the air signs, preparing to pervade the realms of humanity and technology by shock. 2025 is the yr for locating your mission. While it shouldn’t necessarily involve murdering any...
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27 Nov

A popular culture timeline of the rise (and fall)

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A popular culture timeline of the rise (and fall)
“Nice wig Janice, what’s it manufactured from?”…“Your mum’s chest hair!” This iconic one-liner (from the now-canonical 2004 film, Mean Girls) is indicative of just how far chest hair, be it your mum’s or your individual, is loaded with cultural connotation.  In terms of body hair, a sort of ‘all or nothing’ politics abounds and chest hair is not any different. In fact, there was a time when humans were completely covered in body hair but, as our ape-adjacent ancestors migrated to warmer climes, and eventually indoors, we began to shed this coating through a technique of natural selection. Over time, any body hair that did remain became encoded in deep sociocultural associations.  Due to chest hair’s correlation to higher levels of testosterone,...
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22 Aug

Exploring the mind-body problem and rise of body anxiety

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Exploring the mind-body problem and rise of body anxiety
For hundreds of years, philosophers and psychologists have fought over the mind-body connection and this relationship continues to be just as fraught today. From the ‘obesity crisis’ to gender fluidity, the ways during which our psychological self pertains to the physical is complex and contentious. Within the seventeenth century, René Descartes argued that the mind exists individually from the body and that the body cannot think. Such dualist considering has been the dominant attitude toward the body ever since encouraging us to take care of the considering mind and dismiss that which is corporeal. The truth is, quite worryingly psychoanalyst Susie Orbach argues we are moving towards a dematerialised existence where every part we understand about living, “will occur within the realm...
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14 Aug

Meme tattoos and the rise of post-ironic body art

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Meme tattoos and the rise of post-ironic body art
Post-ironic tattoos10 Images “Yeah sex is great but Fortnite” – a funny meme, possibly, but would you will have it permanently inked in your skin? For some, the reply is a resounding yes. Because, despite being raised on Kim Kardashian’s forewarning words, ‘you wouldn’t put a bumper sticker on a Bentley’, Gen Z are one in all the most inked generations. And in contrast to the earnest and symbolic designs favoured by Millennials – infinity signs, plant pots, love hearts etc – they're taking a more ironic approach to their ink, with tattoos that seem like memes lifted straight off your Instagram grid. The brainchild of brain rot, ironic tattoos resemble the relics of 2009 memes and shitposting spiel you’d find on...
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