Tag: FEATURE
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Desire, delusion and the rise of magical thinking on TikTok
FEATURE ARTICLE FOR REFINERY29. Manifestation is all over my For You page, where dewy-skinned soothsayers promise to help me materialise my dreams. I’ve also noticed manifestation buzzwords like “abundance” and “higher self” seeping into the language of close friends. It’s difficult to pinpoint when these concepts took hold exactly — I’d…
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The breakup algorithm: Is it harder than ever to recover from heartbreak?
FEATURE ARTICLE FOR REFINERY29 UK. When my seven-year relationship ended recently, there were certain rites of passage that I’d anticipated: a renewed interest in fitness, dissecting depressing Hinge profiles, and going on even more depressing Hinge dates, posting thinly veiled thirst trap photo dumps on Instagram that I’d later delete, writing unhinged entries in…
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The wild life of Toby Zoates: Sydney’s squatting movement, acid, protests and art
If there was trouble brewing in Sydney in the late 70s and 80s, chances are Toby Zoates was the one at the stove.
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Better to squat than let homes rot: inside Sydney’s underground squatting movement
FEATURE ARTICLE FOR VICE AUSTRALIA. “Once upon a time there was a haven for artists, freaks, punks, pagans, renegades and junkies,” legendary Sydney artist and seasoned squatter Toby Zoates writes on his blog. “It looked like a forbidding fortress: a dark cubist castle clinging to some old disused wharves and, as…
