Culture & Reviews

The Drama of Sublimation: Ugly Truths, Radicalised Youth and the Crisis of Connection

Jasmine Piakan

Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama arrives like a Molotov cocktail lobbed into the wedding-industrial complex. Zendaya’s Emma and Robert Pattinson’s Charlie are the sort of couple neoliberal culture sells us as aspirational: cultured, attractive, ostensibly secure in Boston’s creative class. He’s a museum curator; she’s a literary editor. Their meet-cute is awkward-cute, their engagement photoshoots absurdly… Continue reading The Drama of Sublimation: Ugly Truths, Radicalised Youth and the Crisis of Connection

Health

The Soft-Life Guide To Burnout: 7 Red Flags You’re Not “Just Tired”

Jasmine Piakan

Burnout rarely looks like a dramatic collapse. It looks like you, at your laptop, telling yourself you’re “just tired” for the fourth month in a row. It’s the Sunday dread you joke about in memes but secretly can’t shake. It’s the way your jaw aches, your patience evaporates, and your life slowly shrinks to work,… Continue reading The Soft-Life Guide To Burnout: 7 Red Flags You’re Not “Just Tired”

Health

My Dry Eye Journey: From Screen Fatigue to Real Relief

Jasmine Piakan

Dry eye syndrome is more than just a passing irritation; it's a pervasive condition affecting so many worldwide, in which the eyes either fail to produce enough quality tears or the tears evaporate too rapidly, leaving people with persistent burning, itching, redness, and those irritating sensations. The condition often stems from meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD),… Continue reading My Dry Eye Journey: From Screen Fatigue to Real Relief

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Why Rest Is The Best Performance Hack

Jasmine Piakan

The voice has been with me for as long as I can remember. You'll probably know it. The one that runs its commentary during downtime: you haven't done enough to justify this procrastination. Other people are further along. You should be building something. What are you doing just lying there. For years, I treated this voice as a signal — as the useful internal pressure… Continue reading Why Rest Is The Best Performance Hack

Culture & Reviews

The Hidden Cost of ‘Making It’ for Young Black Britons

Jasmine Piakan

We celebrate the ones who 'make it'. But we don't interrogate the architecture that determines who gets to try, what 'making it' costs, and who's left holding the structural damage when the cameras move on.