The Longest, Saddest Blonde Joke
Blonde is pure trash that both hates and lusts after the central character. If Frollo from Hunchback of Notre Dame had access to a Hollywood production team, this is the kind of garbage he’d create.
Queen's Dead
The Queen is dead. The big question is, how long do we have to wait before it’s no longer “inappropriate” or “too soon” to talk about ditching the Monarchy?
Shed: a poem
Apart of nature, I shed the skin I have outgrown, Refusing to be restricted by things that have lost their purpose.
Review: Melanin Sun (–) Blind Spots
An ambitious and thought-provoking collection of poems, Melanin Sun (-) Blind Spots mixes the many reverberations of a biracial identity with a complex poetics of ambiguity.
Softbois Are Worse Than We Thought
Softbois — men who spend time illustrating themselves as respectful of women — are often less respectful than those who let their actions speak for themselves. // art by @chalametinart
White Men: The Real Monsters Of Stranger Things
Stranger Things 4 showed that, while mind flayers and Demogorgons are all terrifying, there’s nothing scarier than a white man on the hunt.
The Life My Grandfather Never Lived
You were always waiting for that piece, that final slice of inspiration that would finish the story you claimed would change the world. But the inspiration never came, and your story sat in your notebook, unattended, like a corpse in a coffin.
Poem: Ear Fruit
nestled in the soft bit of skin between her neck and jaw,
it’s sprouted just out of her range of vision [. . .]
Review: Surviving 'Men'
Men (2022) is a film about victimhood, trauma, and guilt—the ways in which we survivors can sometimes fail to move on, projecting our worst, embodied memories onto strange men around us, but also the strange men around us who truly do have the potential to be dangerous because they are men and they sniff out and exploit our vulnerability.
The Library on the Edge of the Night, Part 2
The three of them sat together outside the library in that little dark crevice of the universe, watching the lights in the sky, whilst a song about home wafted in the air. Tallis glanced over their shoulder for a moment at the building behind. Eleison’s library was still nowhere near as grand as a good chunk of those Tallis had seen. But it didn’t need to be. It had books.
Mrs Romcom: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Netflix Original
It’s finally happened to you; you’ve woken up in a Netflix Original Rom-Com. You just woke up and you’re inexplicably wearing mascara, brow gel, lipstain and a little eyeshadow in the socket. You suddenly have a manicure. Your antidepressants have disappeared, but strangely you’ve got the energy to go on a five mile run in the morning? Who are you?
four love poems
What says “love” better than poetry? Four of the Boshemia team share their latest love poems for Valentine’s Day 2022.
10 People You'll Date in the Pandemic
From the Poly PhD Student to the Roommate, the editors look back at the characters they’ve dated in the pandemic.
What your Valentine's Date lipstick says about you
Gals, V-day is fast approaching. Your hot date is right around the corner and as you reach for the lipstick, it’s time to ask yourself the important question: what vibe am I giving off tonight??
The Molly Mae Money Making Guide to Girlbossing
A lot of people don’t actually know this, but we all have the same 24 hours in a day, so use those hours wisely! Lucky for you, here’s your guaranteed guide to help you disgusting peasants be a totally girl boss babe. Follow this 5 step guide, and you too can enjoy such luxuries and The Influencer Sofa, mid-lockdown “work” trips to Dubai and complaining about Italian food.
And Just Like That, Nobody’s Having Sex
If Sex and the City has done anything right in the past, it’s been to show us that women still have sex beyond menopause, and enjoy it. No, there’s something else going on with the new, sexless Sex and the City. And it has to do with masculinity.
November 1? You mean, Christmas the First?
I’ll be listening to Christmas carols, slowly unpacking our decorations, making gingerbread houses, and snuggling in with blankets and tea for those nights that start at 5:45 these days to watch some old classics for the next 8 weeks, and there’s nothing you can do to stop me.
The Library on the Edge of the Night | Part 1
People had pretty soon decided that there wasn’t much else worth exploring in the vast empty stretch of space beyond, which people called the Night, and attention had moved elsewhere. Not for the first time, Tallis groaned inwardly and forced themself to remember that they were lucky to still be employed by the Librarians’ Guild at all after the unfortunate Charlotte Brontë incident. This posting was just something they were going to have to endure for a while.