Everyone’s taking about the new TV series I May Destroy You (Vanessa started watching this week and is HOOKED), and this Vulture interview with creator Michaela Coel is an incredible, exquisitely written insight into how she’s turned her trauma into a cultural triumph
In the market for a mask that’s as stylish as it is safe? The good folk over at Frankie have compiled a list of over 30 local businesses to support who are making handmade fabric masks
Check out this perfectly preserved 1950s kitchen
When everything's on Instagram, what is true intimacy among friends?
Over on Twitter, US/AUS journalist Chloe Angyal has shared a fascinating play-by-play account of her long haul flight from LAX-SYD, and her subsequent 14 day hotel quarantine (“When we got to the hotel, we were briefed on the bus by a state police sergeant. “You will not be given a room key, because you are not allowed to leave your room,” he told us.”)
This absolutely wins the internet this week
If you’ve ever dated (or tried to date) someone that was ‘busy’ all the time, this article will really hit home
Thanks to our friend Liz for alerting us to this wonderful piece by Yanyuwa Garrw woman Miriam Charlie, who tells her story of living through two pandemics (“I remember the last pandemic to really hit Borroloola. The Hong Kong flu came in the 1960s and changed the way we lived forever. My mum sat us down and said, ‘this flu will come and kill our people.’ I was just a little girl then, and three different clan groups in the region all lived together in the same place on the eastern side of the McArthur River at Malarndari camp. But when the flu came, families had to move away from one another, to isolate on their own areas on both sides of the river. Lots of people died from that pandemic in Borroloola. My grandfather was one of them.”)
How to respond to ancient emails (with handy pre-written responses)
Former Sneaky Sound System frontman Daimon Downey is now working as an artist in Sydney, and we’re drooling over pretty much every single one of his hand painted plates, especially this collection of Italian words and these excellent sea-themed creations
Tiny love stories breaking our hearts as per usual
Anyone else feel like some parts of 2020 have passed very quickly (June, anyone?) while other months feel like they dragged on and on? (hello March). This brilliant interactive article does a great job of explaining why the concept of time feels so strange right now
Three writers tell their stories of coming to grips with their disability (“It wasn’t until I started trying to meet men online that I suddenly had to confront my cerebral palsy every time I had a conversation. One time, I told a man he wasn’t my type, and he said, “With all your problems, you’d be lucky to take whatever you can get.”)
Bored of the view outside your own window? We’ve stumbled across a website called Window Swap that lets you see outside other people’s windows all over the world, and we’re absolutely obsessed
