Diane reanimates the letters her father sent from prison 15 years ago to understand the chasm that now lies between them ...

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A volunteer at Prinzessinnengarten, an urban gardening project in Berlin, September 2012. Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters ...

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You can kiss a girl?’ Four women recall the joy and vulnerability of first-time queer attraction in this charming animation ...

is a researcher in philosophy and psychoanalytic theory at University College London, and a writer on politics and social theory. He writes the Substack Antagonisms of the Everyday.

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