“You can’t just walk away,” says Kandie, as she describes the reality of what it’s like to leave a pimp. “There is no just walking away.” In walking away and leaving her exploiter behind, she “blew up”, a phrase used by Emmy nominated film-maker Stephanie Wang-Breal in her new documentary Blowin’ Up. In it, she…
Month: April 2019
‘No rules in this job’: Cairo’s violent waste wars pit sorters against startups
“People do not just fight over garbage here, I have seen them fight to the death over garbage,” says Samaan Girgis. “There are no rules in this job.” Girgis is one of the Zabaleen (Arabic for “garbage people”), Cairo’s army of informal workers that collects refuse for conversion into valuable raw materials. Girgis lives with…
Ottessa Moshfegh: ‘I erase the books I love from my mind – it’s how I move on’
The book I am currently readingAn advanced copy of The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown by Julia Flynn Siler. The book that changed my lifeI can’t really say. Maybe I am a bit too militant about detachment, but every time I love a book, my heart breaks for…
Why is Donald Trump obsessed with Bane in The Dark Knight Rises?
There are many superheroes an ailing American president might choose to associate with in an effort to pick up some much needed kudos. Frank Miller’s seminal graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns features a version of Superman who is in thrall to Ronald Reagan. In the film Iron Man 3, the fictional President Matthew Ellis…
‘I never knew walruses climbed that high’: Our Planet’s scariest moments
‘The walruses were banging on the walls’ Sophie Lanfear on taking on 108,000 of the creatures in Russia It was like a zombie film. The walruses turned up over night. It was pitch-black outside and you could hear them coming ashore and getting louder and louder, their tusks scraping the sides of our cabin. They…
I used makeup to appear lighter – until I redefined black beauty for myself
Colorism is more than being called a cockroach, having guys compare my nether regions to a medium rare steak, or seeing my crush preferring lighter-skinned women over me. No, it goes deeper than that. Colorism has programmed me to view myself as everything but beautiful, or even a woman. Masculinity, ugliness and undesirability are traits…
Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend
Click:gemini api 收费 1) City need to regain spark to keep up chase Roy Hodgson said his side enjoyed “one of those bonanza days” when they beat Manchester City 3-2 at the Etihad in December. They did not gain a corner in the game, had 22% of possession and scored with all three of their shots…
Cinematic smackers: the most significant kisses in film history
10. Casablanca (1942) In the movies, a kiss is never just a kiss. Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Ingrid Bergman walked into Humphrey Bogart’s. A haunting chiaroscuro closeup tracks into a dissolve, recalling happier times. As time goes by they agree “No questions”, making them free to…
Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau share the lead in Masters
A riled Brooks Koepka tends to be a dangerous Brooks Koepka. This golfer, who derives ongoing inspiration by what he perceives as a lack of due recognition, was at it again in the lead up to the Masters. Beware the chippy champion. After the leading Golf Channel analyst and former tour player Brandel Chamblee publicly…
Students accused of cheating Apple out of nearly $1m in fake iPhone scheme
Many of us have waited trepidatiously in the Apple Store, clasping our broken iPhone we’ve long since lost the receipt for, while the Genius Bar overlords decide whether to take pity on us and give us a new one or show us the gladiatorial thumbs down. But two Oregon students had rather a lot more…