Is Popular Culture Finally Ready for Ripped Women?
For most of cinema’s history, the pursuit of a Herculean physique has been a male-only endeavour. But in recent years, a number of actresses have begun to bulk up for the screen.
Run Clubs Are The Wholesome Dating Trend Replacing The Apps
Sports and sex are two things I’ve never conflated. But in 2024, it feels as though I’m in the minority.
La Camionera: the Lesbian Bar the People Made Happen
La Camionera is the only FLINTA (female, lesbian, intersex, non-binary, trans and agender) owned lesbian bar in London.
From Glasses to Metal Braces, Gen Z Is Embracing the Nerd Aesthetic
The idea that functional devices make us ‘unfanciable’ was propagated by ’90s and ’00s pop culture.
How To Get a Free Tree of Your Own for Earth Day
New York Restoration Project is tackling urban inequity by giving New Yorkers free trees to plant in all five boroughs.
Inside Brooklyn’s Most Unhinged Easter Party
Across the river from Manhattan’s annual Easter Parade, a blasphemous Easter celebration rave in Dumbo.
Scenes from the Raucous Purim Party at House of Yes
DJ David Kiss’ Purim party, now in its fifth year, is an off-kilter Bar Mitzvah fever dream where all are welcome.
Queer Birding Takes Flight in the City
A morning spent strolling with the 'soft, outdoorsy' NYC Queer Birders crew through McCarren Park.
Ancient Greek-Inspired Debauchery Comes to Bushwick
A new immersive art experience recreates an Ancient Greek ritual at the nightclub Three Dollar Bill.
The Untold Lives of Mature OnlyFans Performers
Women aged 65 and older are relaunching their careers on OnlyFans, fulfilling needs otherwise lacking from their lives.
How a Drag Performance Artist and Educator Spends Sundays
When Kelindah Schuster entered the Brooklyn drag scene, the idea of someone assigned female at birth performing high femme drag was controversial.
Detoxing at an Underground Brooklyn Bathhouse Rave
At the new rave series Steamroom, revelers sweat it out, literally, as they get down and get it on.
Inside the Satanic Temple's Legal Battle to Beat Abortion Bans
At first glance, The Satanic Temple’s new telehealth venture seems like a social experiment in trolling.
Taxidermy and Drag Culture Collide at Wunderkammer
Scenes from an evening of ‘telling stories with skin and bodies' at an annual competition at the Bell House.
How a Taxidermist Spends Sundays
Growing up in a cramped Miami apartment, Divya Anantharaman would spend hours perched by the kitchen window, gazing at the birds passing by.
Will Harvard’s New Bionic Vaginas Revolutionise Women’s Health?
Medical conditions affecting people with vulvas are notoriously understudied, but new developments in the field suggests this might be changing.
Why Are We Still So Obsessed With Smoking?
As heavy drinking and snorting lines are increasingly falling out of fashion, why are vapes suddenly in vogue?
Will the Climate Crisis Affect Our Sex Lives?
As extreme heatwaves are predicted to become the norm in the UK, our sex lives are set to undergo a radical transformation.
The Innovators Shifting Sustainable Fashion into the Mainstream
2022's Love Island contestants will be dressed in secondhand clothes from eBay. Is the sustainable fashion truly moving into the mainstream?
Business and Public Health Go Hand in Hand and Firms Can't Afford to Ignore It
How has health become a blindspot to business, and what can they gain by assessing their health impacts?
Clubbing under Quarantine: Can Raving Go Digital?
DJs and party organisers around the world have been finding ways to recreate raving online. But will this ever come close to the real thing?
Intimacy in Isolation
Pornceptual has launched a new project, Isolation Porn: Sex, Self-pleasure and Fetish during Social Isolation, documenting how quarantine is affecting our sex lives.
The Rise of Climate Superpop
The conflation of relationships with climate anxiety is a common trope of climate pop music.
Coming To Town: Jessy Lanza
The Candian-born singer and producer on anger, anxiety and family.
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