Tag: Bodies

The narration of artist Jill Magid moves through corners and rooms, over the slow panning shots of Casa Luis Barragán. A quivering ambient hum underlies her voice, filling the house, at times imperceptible before murmuring into melody or bleeding into rhythm. In the tranquil...

In this paper we analyze the transformative living conditions for middle classes in the City of Buenos Aires and Greater Buenos Aires in relation to the house and the body during these first two months of mandatory isolation. By gathering notes and records of our researches, we seek to problematize ...

A funny thing happened on the way to the forum, exclusionary feminists decided to dog pile on Kim Petras and no-one in the real world cared. Crickets. Not a news headline, not a celebrity tweet, not even a nod from the original poster. All that needed to be said was Kim was a woman, and it was cat n...

Walk through the world and tell me what a woman is. I mean really is. Without falling back on stereotypes or cultural norms. She is tall, short, thin, plump, chubby, cute, beautiful, striking, dowdy, frumpy, ugly, messy hair, perfect hair, make-up trowelled on, no make-up at all, bushy eyebrows...

Reproductive health and rights are once again at the center of public debate following the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to replace the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. While the intensity of the rhetoric is high and the composition of the next Supreme Court will certainly impa...

Outer space, with its vastness and the myriad celestial bodies adorning the cosmic canvas, is a subject of endless curiosity. Among the enigmatic entities that dot the cosmic background, black holes hold a special place. What is a Black Hole? At its most basic, a black hole is a region in s...

Cooperation between mothers and fathers in raising offspring has always been a point of conflict in nature. Parenting requires investment with each parent paying a cost of lost opportunity in mating with others and increasing their reproductive fitness[1]. In the case of human societies, we may h...

I shouldn’t be passing judgement here, having never worn a body shaper. I remember author, Susan Orleans, describing them as “stuffing a sleeping bag into a sack.” That image alone is enough to turn me off cramming myself into anything. One of my greatest disappointments was wat...

Ifthere’s one thing the coronavirus pandemic has taught us — or the year 2020 for that matter — it is the value of having a home. For those of us fortunate enough to have shelter, outfitted with the things and people we feel the need to have to feel safe and comfortable, then we kn...