Joanna Pocock’s Surrender opens with the author’s ennui at approaching fifty, being on the cusp of the menopause […]
Category Archive: Essays
Your father drove you to the trailhead in the small white bakkie. The Tsitsikamma forest pressed up close […]
[34] Fleeting The poet Frank O’Hara gives us the best example of the manifesto as a fleeting, momentary […]
You don’t remember how you got to the hospital district in southern Roma. Whether by taxi or metro […]
The proliferation of Afrogoth Facebook groups and Tumblr feeds, provide spaces for goth diaspora visibility in which corsets […]
Manu was first spotted in the display window of the old sewing-machine museum touching holes of light on […]
Hunger was practical for me in those first months alone after the end of my relationship. It wasn’t […]
I am patient when it comes to the non-presence of bodies. Maybe that is because there is more […]
‘I didn’t know’ ‘I didn’t know’ ‘I didn’t know’ Rhys’ words in Smile Please. She was referring to […]
I write about the hunger for desire with a lover who is not a lover—for there is an […]
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