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.

The Quarantine Poems is a series of poetry written durning the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, available in text and in audio.

The second instalment, 'from heaven’, is authored by Emily Blair.

The Quarantine Poems is a series of poetry written durning the covid-19 pandemic lockdown, available in text and in audio.

The first instalment, On Yearning, is authored by Sarah Lawrence.

Some pick at their faces mindlessly, but I know I am using it to cope with depressive episodes and issues of anxiety in many forms that I have been avoiding for years.

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.

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 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.

E spoke with four women about their experiences of the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy.

From hookups gone awry to brunch with a polycule, the staff writers at Boshemia share their best and worst dating experiences.

Here’s how you survive those two to four days at a academic conference, especially as a woman, a femme, or a queer person. 

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.

Dust motes drift like ashes / perhaps an old dream / perhaps you

When did you know you[r professors] were queer?

Just like its protagonists, Bombshell sacrifices radical change for mainstream accessibility. And just like Fox News, it is very white.

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.

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.

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.

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.