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“Can you turn that off?”
The Watching Issue / 01
You can curate an online version of yourself down to the song on your story, but real life does not come with an edit button. As being watched and recorded starts to feel more normal, this first piece of The Watching Issue asks what happens when we begin living as though someone might always be watching.
The death of Journalism
The journalist is no longer competing with another newspaper. They are competing with your attention span. TikTok, podcasts, and viral interviews increasingly favour entertainment over scrutiny, while traditional reporting struggles to keep up. Writer Meg explores this in the new Entre- Deux issue.
Meg Pratt
Sonder in Colour
A personal reflection on sonder, people-watching, and the realisation that everyone around us is living a life as vivid, messy and full as our own. From a friend’s house party to strangers on trains, Sonder in Colour asks what it means to really see people.
Chi Ahiwe
AT 1:17 AM : The People We Meet At Parties
At 1:17am, nightlife becomes more than noise and movement. In bathrooms, smoking areas and balconies, strangers turn parties into temporary galleries where identity is worn.
Chi Ahiwe
Butterflies
A lyrical, meditative article by Aisleyne on tenderness that wounds, care that consumes, and the violence of being loved.
Aisleyne Luvuezo
Are we still in love
We’ve turned dating into a set of rules for avoiding rejection. Somewhere along the way, playing it cool started getting in the way of actually getting close.
Talia Wilkinson
BOREDOM-PHOBIA IN THE DIGITAL AGE
We have more to watch, read and scroll through than any generation before us, and now five minutes without something playing in the background feels unbearable. How did we get this bad at doing nothing?
Lily Weerasinghe