
Lana, Glamour and White Privilege
Lana Del Rey citing herself as glamorous, fragile and delicate while othering women of colour as “strong,” goes hand in hand with a long tradition of viewing white women as glamourous and women of colour as exotic
Lana Del Rey citing herself as glamorous, fragile and delicate while othering women of colour as “strong,” goes hand in hand with a long tradition of viewing white women as glamourous and women of colour as exotic
“The moon begins to blot the sun-lit sky; / one sphere will prevail, and one will die.” The Quarantine Poems is a series of poetry written during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, available in text and in audio. The fourth instalment, Spheres, is authored by Liam Atterbury.
Despite there being more furniture, more nature, higher fences and more people, it feels as though each addition added an extra metre or so. Lazy summer days that merge into one are spent here, finding joy in the rare days where all nine of us come together for an evening.
At the beginning of tiptoeing through a collapsing, ghost town, society, I was both ashamed and confused by the immediate relief and freedom I felt as soon as lockdown peaked. How could I ever admit that within waves of death, I had become alive?
“It seems to me that everything is marked / in the time before / and now” The Quarantine Poems is a series of poetry written during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, available in text and audio. The third instalment, In Another Time, is authored by Erin Ammon.