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Sonder in Colour
A personal reflection on sonder, people-watching, and the quiet 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.
“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.
Maddie Foster
Forget Big Brother, the whole world is watching you…
The Watching Issue / 02
Meta has turned its AI glasses into another lifestyle product, helped along by celebrity faces like Kylie Jenner. The second piece of The Watching Issue looks at what happens when a company sells surveillance to the very women who have the most reason to be wary of it.
Grace Atherton
Acceptance vs Longing
What if the problem isn’t wanting more, but believing more will finally be enough? This piece asks whether fulfilment comes from chasing the life you want, or learning not to make your happiness depend on ever reaching it.
Milo Lewis
Butterflies
A lyrical, meditative article by Aisleyne on tenderness that wounds, care that consumes, and the violence of being loved.
Aisleyne Luvuezo