by Contributor | TueTue, OctOct, 2018201820182018 | Culture
Maria Ballester by Rosie Lawrence. CW: suicide, toxic relationships. Amber and I became friends when I was in year 8, and she was in year 9. We met through a mutual friend and quickly became very close. We would text each other all the time, hang out at every break...
by Ropafadzo Mugadza | MonMon, OctOct, 2018201820182018 | Nonfiction
by Ropafadzo Mugadza. Ropa writes of her childhood friend and coming of age in Zimbabwe. Photography by Dari Depriakhi. ZBC was the only channel that was left on Zimbabwean television, unless you could pay for cable. All day long they played propaganda. Most of...
by Contributor | FriFri, OctOct, 2018201820182018 | Life
Naomi August by Kelly Ronaldson. This time last year, I was halfway through my first year of university, living in the heart of my favourite city, and on my way to securing my dream career. Things weren’t perfect, but I had an incredible group of friends, a...
by admin | ThuThu, OctOct, 2018201820182018 | Culture
via Life Magazine “Is he a friend of Dorothy?” This phrase dates back to at least World War 2 as slang for “what sexual orientation is he?” When acts of homosexuality were still criminalised, slang was needed to discern the gays from the str8’s. But why friend of...
by Contributor | WedWed, OctOct, 2018201820182018 | Poetry
by Taylor Wear. CW: sexual assault. you have to understandwho i was before it happened. youth surged through my veinsseeped from every porefilled my sanguine lungslaced every breath.young and fun and a little dumb,in my prime. age five, high...