Culture
Beyond Gender: Ghulāmiyyāt and Fashion in Abbasid Culture
Studying past cultures presents a unique challenge: understanding how different they were from our own, but in their own right. Take modern-day Syria, Egypt, and Iraq — do their cultures resemble those of the past? It’s a tricky question with no straightforward answers.
Books: Painted, Dressed, Fashioned
This specific minimalist design stands in contrast to the warmth of a jumbled colourful bookcase or library in an English parsonage, where the illustrated covers, each strikingly different, create a charming picture. It belongs to a long tradition in the French literary scene where the books are dressed in uniform, simple covers so the reader will not be attracted to the book only by the visual appeal of the cover.
So, Your Girlfriend’s Superpowers Turned Out to be an Allegory for Autism
She is cold because her powers are ice and rock. She is abrasive because she is superintelligent. This is all well and good. What was not well and good was when she sat you down and said: “I do not actually have magic. I am just autistic.”
Would You Help Drape Your Son’s Saree?
Yes, this generation is of ‘today’ but if the adults don’t rectify their speech, their children will learn about love more slowly.
Lessons Learned From Life Lived
The plan was to deliver a standard Q&A advice column containing the rest of your Qs. But then my NGL data disappeared along with my access to your dilemmas and those plans to share my As, which wouldn’t have happened if I had someone to warn me.
In Sickness and In Health: Memories from the Time of Hanahaki Disease in Fanfiction
The slow death of Hanahaki disease is meant to be a manifestation of the overwhelm of love, a progression of the colloquial language that we have, for decades, been building to describe this indescribable feeling. Lovesick. Butterflies in your stomach. All of that. It’s not pleasant language. It’s not supposed to be.
