Voices
In late 2004, in my first year of college, a school friend emailed me a link to something she called…
Digital intimacy is not always obvious or visible, but a lingering trace.
Maintaining the streak meant maintaining contact
The convergence of technology and romance opens up a complex network of possibilities…
Digital abuse is not merely a technical or legal issue, but an emotional and social experience.
People are becoming lonelier, and their desire for connection, stronger.
Intimacy – whether sexual, emotional, or relational – cannot be treated as raw material for consumption without consequence
In such a setting, intimacy becomes the surveillance infrastructure.
…something truer than thought starts to climb upwards.
Standing behind the camera, with a microphone in one hand, I have felt this power imbalance first hand. The camera may humanise the person in front of it more than a text analysis would, but the modes of production remain in someone else’s hands.
Gender has perplexed me throughout life. I never quite understood femininity or masculinity much – I mostly lived in what other people thought I was. One thing I did know always is that I never, ever, want to be seen as a man. But can I still hold masculinity?
Growing up is a tedious task in our society because of the institutionalised practices, societal constructs and boxed identities and expressions that we are expected to adhere to. Anything beyond these implies harm, danger, and deviance.
Medicine does not exist in a vacuum. … a doctor’s words can reinforce oppressive beauty myths or dismantle them.