Podcasts for Quarantine
Ready for a deep dive into the world of a show? You’ve got a bit more time on your hands these days. Go down the rabbit hole with one of these.
Pandemic Television: Episodes To Quarantine To
Anyway, I guess we’re all going to die. We’re not, but I wouldn’t blame you for feeling that way. You’re stuck inside while people are literally dying and the government’s response has been objectively terrible. The only thing we can do is bake bread and watch TV.
Britney is a Marxist Icon and We Stan
Britney is a socialist now, so Q and A have done a Marxist reading of some of her greatest hits. You’re welcome, please enjoy the following education.
How 4 Women Are Managing Italy's COVID-19 Lockdown
E spoke with four women about their experiences of the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy.
Best of / Worst of: Dating Edition
From hookups gone awry to brunch with a polycule, the staff writers at Boshemia share their best and worst dating experiences.
An Academic Conference Survival Guide: From One Femme Queer to the Next
Here’s how you survive those two to four days at a academic conference, especially as a woman, a femme, or a queer person.
11 Women Who Aren’t At Reading & Leeds Festival But Should Be
Reading & Leeds Festival announced their line-up for this year and while it’s certainly full of decent to great acts, it’s all looking a little XY-chromosome heavy, isn’t it? Here are 11 non-male artists who could easily have gone on that line-up.
The first prayers were smoke
Dust motes drift like ashes / perhaps an old dream / perhaps you
The Professor is Out: When did you know you[r professors] were queer?
When did you know you[r professors] were queer?
Review: Bombshell
Just like its protagonists, Bombshell sacrifices radical change for mainstream accessibility. And just like Fox News, it is very white.
The Exchange Rate of Outrage
You’re never going to get a racist on TV, own them, and change their minds. You’re never going to persuade people that racism is, in fact, bad by tweeting a solid burn. Save your outrage, it doesn’t work. Don’t tweet about them, don’t click articles about them, don’t watch videos where they’re spewing their bile, just ignore them.
The Midnight Curse
For four years, the curse had endured and none knew where it had begun. Carolina swung her eyes back towards the town streets; very few people were outdoors and the dust swirled in low curls over the cobbles. Torches and lamps were snubbed out - the town had kept to a schedule of time, which included when to sleep, if only to maintain a routine.
NikkieTutorials owes the world nothing
Not every trans person is, wants to be, or has to be a beacon of visibility or activism. Nikkie, just like most, just wants to live in the right identity, quietly and unremarked for it. Trans people don’t owe anybody anything; not explanations, not knowledge, nothing.
Review: Little Women (2019)
Greta Gerwig’s Little Women is, above all, a love letter to sisterhood and girlhood. It is lovingly crafted and gorgeously shot, and carries all the genuine energy and fervour of a houseful of little women navigating a world which they individually realise does not hold space for them.
2019 Hot Takes: Miscellaneous Points About Queer Identity
Columnist Emily Blair brings you her hottest takes on queer identity in 2019.
My Ex, His Mother, His Truck, and Her Tree: On Holiday Mourning
I want to believe there's consolation in reminiscence, that mourning can be cleansing when it's set against green and red lights and holiday songs and a sense of impending renewal. But when time never moves forward for us, it can never be properly marked and peacefully released. Instead we are the ones marked. Holidays repeat endlessly.
The Stages of Election Grief
By the next election, the two main reasons people didn’t vote Labour will not exist. And the bad news: the billionaire owned media will continue to demonise the Left. So what can you do? Accepting the reality we live in doesn’t mean giving up. Here’s what you can do.
Election Fever 2: Electric Boogaloo (A Guide for the Undecided)
For the third time in five years, the UK is having a general election. Again. We have more general elections than Marvel has female-lead superhero films. The rate of us having general elections is higher than the rate of Frank Ocean releasing albums. We have so many general elections, everyone in the UK has a chronic case of tinnitus.
Boshemia Wrapped: 2019 Playlist
At the end of every year Spotify presents you with a playlist of your top 100 most listened to songs. Boshemia staff have taken their top 10 to combine and make a playlist that reflects our vibes across the year. We’ve ruminated on how our top tracks ended up so and shared our thoughts.
Happy Holigays: On Unbelievable Gay Futures and Confronting Luck and Privilege
With the false veil of oppression starkly lifted by our parents’ easy love and acceptance, I am forced to confront my perceived identity as a marginalized person.