Looking at anger and how we can collectively grapple with it in a healthy way — I am here to talk about anger. Violence and Judgement have been the forever dance partners of this emotion, but I dream of anger that can be equalled to that force that the radicle needs to push the seed out of the earth to become a plant. …

New laws alone won't save us. — New laws alone won’t save us, female presidents alone won’t save us, and representation alone won’t save us. We need a radical shift. As long as the decisions around our bodies and our lives are in the hands of people with a patriarchal Eurocentric perspective, we are not safe. …

A conversation about poetry, hip hop, spirituality and Islam. — *Here are some optional additional ingredients to make this reading time one of pure dedication, for the sake of slowing down. Use one of them, all of them, or none at all. This month’s art corner guest has chosen this song to accompany the piece. Light a blue or white candle and…

This month I spoke to director and music curator Jazmin Garcia about love, loss, and finding beauty in melancholy — Before you start reading, press play on this (Trust me): https://www.nts.live/shows/jazmin-garcia/episodes/como-la-flor-w-jazmin-garcia-18th-january-2021 There is a legend in Alice Walker’s book In the Light of my Father’s Smile that has always stayed with me. In it, she explains how the white bell-shaped flowers, Calla lilies, came to be on Earth. …

A conversation about magic, aquatic creatures and ancestry. — Before you start reading this piece, please put this song on: Hymn of the Oceanines to beauty and fortune, LEAVING RECORDS My grandfather was a creature of the sea. Throughout his life, as an amateur diver, he collected shells from the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, the Atlantic and the Pacific…

We need a revolution, a big fat f*** you to brevity culture. — The strive for brevity and efficiency has taken over too many aspects of our life. The other day, a friend who is looking to buy a home told me that new houses don’t have baths anymore because “who has time to have baths anymore?”. The chase for brevity occupies speeches…

This month, we talk to Mexican artist Manuel Díaz about space, death, and rituals on Mars. — This story started with a mistake. Every journalist knows the sheer pain you feel when an interview you thought you recorded turns out not to be. Be it Mercury Retrograde or bad luck, I decided to take it as an opportunity. …

This society would do itself a favour if it looked more into how we treat mothers. — Type the word motherhood on Google images and you will scroll through pictures of smiling mothers holding the hands of their kids (often multiple). Occasionally you will see a picture about “the dark side of motherhood” where the black and white image of a woman kneeling with her face in…