The image of a monstrous woman is used to belittle, shame and discourage powerful women, teaching them to adhere to the status quo and remember their place.

We eloped. The pandemic helped me justify the wedding I wanted.

Here are a few things that could happen to you on Friday the 13th that would probably maybe be the worst thing that happened to you this year. (I don’t want to hear about your actual problems, don’t @ me).

As we celebrate the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris will become the very first woman and the first Black South Asian person to serve as Vice President.

Election results have been trickling in since Tuesday night and the world awaits the results. Boshemia editor, Erin Ammon, reflects on the situation we find ourselves in.

2020 is not the year to wallow in despair about how little your one vote matters. Here’s how to vote.

Superhero moves offer simple solutions to simple threats. There are bad guys and good guys and nothing in between. The Boys takes that view and turns it in on itself. There are no good guys and bad guys: there are simply corporations and people fighting for power. And they can do whatever they want.

Boshemia designer and contributor Lauren Elizabeth, who lived in France for close to seven years, reacts to Emily in Paris.

I’m sure that once, not so long ago, this green grow-pot was the perfect size and shape and fit for those poor roots. It’s nobody’s fault – plants grow. This one was just long overdue.

I’m uncomfortable with how Appalachian identity works in the media and in academia, both because I think it’s a problematic identity that I hold too dearly and because I think I’m faking it.

May her memory be a revolution.

These poems are a part of a larger project concerned with expounding on a new place and scenery while grappling with familiarity. I write extensively about movement—not always physically, but even shifts in psyche.

According to NHS statistics, 1 in 10 men of all ages will suffer from a sexual health problem throughout their life, such as Erectile Dysfunction (ED). ED affects 50% of men over the age of 40, a huge figure; yet it remains one of the most taboo subjects in society.

Scientists can talk to me about lumens and refractions, about reflections and lightwaves, and I won’t understand any of it, no matter how much you try, but I think I can say something about the night sky, if you give me a chance. Shouldn’t a poet do it?

Boshemia designer and contributor Lauren Elizabeth reckons with America on the 4th of July in the wake of personal and collective loss.

Q had a sit down with Christina Joy of Our Black Book Magazine, an independent magazine that features Black-owned businesses in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. This interview is featured in Black Voices: A Mini Zine.

Once again police brutality and the force’s institutionalised racism has reared its ugly head, and the concept of watching a nice, comforting TV show about cops is practically nauseating.

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.