Every word that Lizzo drops in this no holds barred interview in Vanity Fair is just magic. She talks about everything from abortion rights and white supremacy to body neutrality and non-monogamy and honestly we don’t deserve her
It’s always fascinating to see how people around the world live and these teeny tiny shoe box apartments in Tokyo are no exception
Gen Z has made no secret of their dislike of GIFs (they’re “cringe”, apparently) but turns out there’s loads of other reasons why the humble medium that gave us Nyan Cat and dramatic chipmunk might soon become extinct
If there was one piece of writing that divided the internet this week, it was this personal essay in the Guardian about one woman’s experience of finding out her boyfriend of 10 years was trans. Have a read and let us know what you think – narcissistic and self-indulgent or a brave account of what happens when the people we love change?
In tech news: This week Meta announced that “legs” were “coming soon” to their virtual reality platform Horizon and the reactions on Twitter have been pretty funny, here’s what we think we know about Elon Musk’s plan for Twitter and TikTok is launching live shopping in the US
How mid-century modern design took over the world (you need to enter your email to keep reading but it’s worth it, we promise)
There’s no timeline to grief and sometimes you just need to be mad
A reminder to approach life with open palms
Michaela Coel recently posed for the first-ever Vogue cover shoot in Ghana. Her photos are full of life, and the accompanying interview reads like a delightfully personal tour of the capital city, Accra
We’re extremely into romanticising our own lives hbu?
This piece unpacks why wellness is so f*cking exhausting and questions whether it’s simply more unpaid work to add to our load (“Maybe the combination of things we need to actually be and feel well—conventional medicine when we’re sick, alternative therapies when we’re exhausted or run down, fresh food, exercise, love, hope, someone to care for us as much as we care for others—is impossible to prescribe. But it’s oh-so-easy to exploit.”)
With the highest number of refugees per capita in the world, Lebanon will soon start sending refugees back to Syria. But what will they go back to?
Perfectly rational advice from John Paul Brammer on how to overcome a fear of dating
Annnddd fun n silly things from around the web… the best gifts are often frivolous, fat bear don’t care, dogs as famous humans, 10 underrated thrillers for people who can’t do horror movies, the winning shots from Wildlife Photographer of the Year, the incomparable Marisa Meltzer is writing a tell-all book about Glossier, Whatsapp’s new ad in London is BONKERS, so I guess all know how King Charles feels about Liz Truss now, there’s this new trend on TikTok where people recite the lyrics of Katy Perry’s Last Friday Night and pretend it’s a true story and this is by far our favourite take so far (this one is a close second), we could watch Florence Pugh eat for hours, expectation vs reality of dating, and the thumbs up emoji is officially uncool according to Gen Z 👍👍👍👍
