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The Overnight Train To The North Pole

The Overnight Train To The North Pole

December 25, 2020
by Natalie Blazevski
Yarns

If you were to find yourself in streets of Helsinki in the midst of a Finnish winter, don’t be surprised by a shower of snow…

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Free Speech and Democracy, Opinion and Truth

Free Speech and Democracy, Opinion and Truth

December 4, 2020
by Alistair Johnston
Editorial

I have opinions. I don’t know if my opinions are true. It seems unlikely that all of them would be. Because for every opinion I…

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The Writer's Routine

The Writer’s Routine

November 17, 2020
by Jada De Luca
Japan Yarns, Yarns

Six o’clock. Greeting her in the dim light, the mirror on the far wall can only fit a proportionate view of her features. It is…

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One More Jewel in the Corona: On Doing Exchange in the US in 2020

One More Jewel in the Corona: On Doing Exchange in the US in 2020

November 17, 2020
by Shifra Power
USA Yarns, Yarns

This year, I cast aside the dirt-encrusted vouchers for disappointment and bought the VIP Backstage Experience for the United States 2020. In late August, I…

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How Backpacking Taught Me to Embrace the Unexpected

How Backpacking Taught Me to Embrace the Unexpected

November 17, 2020
by Caitlin Brown
Thailand Yarns, Yarns

It was the night before the Thai new year festival of Songkran, and we were spending it in the luggage hold of a bus. We…

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The Day I Fell in Love With a Flat Earther

The Day I Fell in Love With a Flat Earther

November 10, 2020
by Oscar Long
Yarns

“Tell me something I don’t know,” she said. We were drinking champagne from the bottle, wearing only bathrobes in the suite of a 19th-century estate…

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Nonna’s Lens: Fighting and Finding Stillness in Isolation

Nonna’s Lens: Fighting and Finding Stillness in Isolation

November 2, 2020
by Jasmine Alavuk
Yarns

In front of the hills of Arthur’s Seat, Margherita Nerini-Garcia stands before the Mornington Peninsular shore. Margherita, my nonna, pulls off her dress and throws…

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Yakuza, Spoiled Carpets and Big Cash -- The World of a Gaijin Hostess in Tokyo

Yakuza, Spoiled Carpets and Big Cash — The World of a Gaijin Hostess in Tokyo

October 5, 2020
by Eleanor Wilson
Features

“I don’t want to do this job for that long. I don’t want to do it now if I’m honest. Who wants to sit around…

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Accepting Diaspora: From The Caucasus to Australia

Accepting Diaspora: From The Caucasus to Australia

September 30, 2020
by Dana Hubraq
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I learned about it the summer after I turned 16. The fan above was blowing hot air onto my head. Miscellaneous birds made their Australiana…

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Overwhelmed and Underwater

Overwhelmed and Underwater

September 17, 2020
by Sachini Poogoda
Yarns

Crystal clear waters. The wings of a giant manta gliding above me while I float, weightless, in the ocean. This was how scuba diving was…

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I Got High With My Parents in Kenya (and They Didn’t Know)

I Got High With My Parents in Kenya (and They Didn’t Know)

September 14, 2020
by Gaia Lamperti
Yarns

Cozmoz arrived with his usual perky walk, wearing flip flops that belonged to two different pairs and red plastic shades lifted over his head. He…

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Activism, Wanking and Saving the World

Activism, Wanking and Saving the World

September 7, 2020
by Jack O'Neill Paterson
Editorial

Predicting the impending apocalypse is no longer just a game for those dogmatic Mayans. Random Instagram pages on a quest to expose 5G, the reptilian…

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