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Amphetameme
Where I offer my take on viral happenings online and in culture and across the trend cycle - looking at what makes for the most powerful viral content and why.
A profile of La Paz on Foot, a tourist agency devoted to the ethical and sustainable travel of Bolivia.
Bolivian Express, July 2016.
It has always been my secret. I’ve never been good at team sports but I finally found a game in which I excelled. The players were me, my brain and everyone else, while the rules were to trick others into thinking I was completely fine so I could suffer in a self-inflicted silence.”
Varsity, October 2016
A piece about the change in Bolivian gender identity legislation in 2016.
Bolivian Express, August 2016.
Where did all the women go?
“The presence of women was generally negated, but if not, then I was reading about female bodies like mine being ridiculed, tormented, or raped. Yet I was expected to repress my personal feelings of horror in my essays, and instead foreground the aesthetic merits and the ostensible universal truths on offer in the core philosophy of the text.”
Varsity, March 2017.
An interview profile with Marion Macedo, a Bolivian artist who sculpts with paper as a homage to mother nature.
Bolivian Express, July 2016
Our chemical library romance
“Like academic automata we hop from lecture to library to seminar to supervision to dinner and then to bed, only to repeat it again the next day. […] Some might be bored with hearing people complain about the eight-week term but, frankly, we will continue to do so until the University takes the complaints seriously. The fact that we’re taking study drugs just to be able to cope is a telling sign that something should change.”
Varsity, February 2017.
(Sex)ism on the beach
“Perhaps you’ve already escaped to London during term time or, more likely, you’ve been cracking on with some ‘revision’ of your Facebook newsfeed and been repulsed by the disgusting adverts plastered across the Underground asking “ARE YOU BEACH BODY READY?” to promote their even more despicable weight loss product.
Since there’s no doorman on the beach who will check to see if you have a Victoria’s Secret model body before allowing you entry then yes, we are all beach ready.”
The Tab Cambridge, May 2015
The return of Twin Peaks
“Perhaps part of the charm of watching old Twin Peaks episodes is the very fact that it went from having people on the edge of their seats, desperate to find out ‘Who killed Laura Palmer?’ to getting cancelled after just 30 episodes. Society moved on; perhaps we have a fickle, throw-away attitude towards pop culture.”
Varsity, October 2014