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My stint as a financial dominatrix taught me free money isn't all it seems
Who holds the power? — We've all got our own little kinks in the bedroom, fantasies of all types and fashions that provide a thrill from the bizarre to the sublime. Abi Wilkinson received a message from a man offering her cash, for which she'd have to do nothing. It made her wonder, is the world of financial domination just too good to be true?
Written by: Abi Wilkinson
Using the internet to become your own doctor
Healing versus Harmful — The internet can be used as a powerful tool for individuals who feel like modern medicine has failed them. Lucy Beech explores what happens when patients try to become their own doctors, in her new film Pharmakon.
Written by: Emily Reynolds
How Bay Area post-punks Creative Adult overcame competing artistic visions
Creative Conflict: The Making of ‘Fear of Life’ — Short documentary explores how Creative Adult’s five members came close to all-out war before completing sophomore album, ‘Fear of Life’.
Written by: Atina Dimitrova
Dan Plunkett gives us a tour of his East Bay Skatedom
Huck x Levi's® — Skate Mental lifer Dan Plunkett offers a view of SF as seen from Richmond, his adopted ’hood in the northeast corner of the Bay. Here, in the latest post from 'Lines Through The City' – a collection of skateboarding and cycling stories produced by Huck in collaboration with Levi's® Skateboarding™ – Dan shares how he and a group of friends have carved out their own nice in East Bay.
Written by: Maxwell Klinger
The photographer stripping away the stigma around the burkini
Going beneath the veil — Photographer Melina Papageorgiou’s Burkini series challenges how Muslim women are represented and the stereotypes perpetuated about the Middle East.
Written by: Alex King
How the worlds of dancehall culture and church collide in Jamaica
Dancing with the spirit — Photographer and filmmaker Jeremy Relph explores the connections and contradictions between Jamaica’s deep-rooted religious morals and its raucous dancehall culture.
Written by: Jeremy Relph
Why domestic violence support services must not be handed to companies like G4S
#NoSisterIsIllegal — The private and public spheres are merging, an ideologically driven move to transfer power and profit into corporate hands. The UK is now the second largest outsourcing market in the world. But there's a human cost to allowing private companies like G4S to run services that are relied on by some of our most vulnerable citizens.
Written by: Sarah Silver
The trees in this Norwegian forest will one day become the greatest books of our time
The Future Library — Our lives are temporary, a few short years spent roaming the planet is our lot. It's the what we produce however, the fruits of a lifetime, that we hope will endure. This isn't always a given, but the stories in Katie Paterson's latest art project are destined to be read after the authors are long gone.
Written by: Megan White
The female cyclist who rode 2,000 miles across America alone with a broken shoulder
Riding solo in to the heart of America — After crashing on the first day of the solo Trans Am Bike Race across America, cyclist Laura Scott, got a far more profound experience of the country and its people.
Written by: Laura Scott
The psychedelic punk creating a safe-haven for artists
Acid Priest — When photographer Lee Kirby stumbled across a vagabond in designer clothes, he found himself opening a pandora’s box that would change his life. But for Lee Trosclair, renegade-turned-muse, the story is just beginning. In a world that undervalues art, he’s kickstarting a cultural revolution from an unlikely place.
Written by: Cian Traynor
