I’ve never been an Irish farmer living in Civil War Era Ireland, but it’s easy to empathise with everyone on screen; in fact, this is the first film I recall that so accurately captures the unique heartbreak of a friendship breakup.  

Sometimes, men are okay, and it’s okay to show that with material goods! Happy Capitalism Season everyone, here’s the official Boshemia Boy Gift Guide TM. 

Untranslate is primarily meant for the vast number of people who grow up outside their state or country and often lose the privilege of being immersed in their native languages and cultures.

It’s our favourite time of year, but the true spooks aren’t the witches and nice ghosties that walk among us – it’s the everyday hauntings that are the most terrifying of all.

You don’t need to be in the same room as somebody to give them an orgasm anymore.

Cottagecore is dead. Synth pop reigns in Midnights.

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.

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?

Apart of nature, I shed the skin I have outgrown, Refusing to be restricted by things that have lost their purpose.

WHERE is the MELANCHOLY?!

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 — 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

Stranger Things 4 showed that, while mind flayers and Demogorgons are all terrifying, there’s nothing scarier than a white man on the hunt.

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.

nestled in the soft bit of skin between her neck and jaw,

it’s sprouted just out of her range of vision [. . .]

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 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.

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?

What says “love” better than poetry? Four of the Boshemia team share their latest love poems for Valentine’s Day 2022.