Featured Artwork by André Letria When they met, he was visiting her hometown. She had left the city of old forts, dust pink skies, giant roads and dry hills. He still lived there. They had one thing in common besides a shared city – cloudy grey skies in place of a heart. Neither knew about … Continue reading
Featured animation by Varsha Naren The year that passed has been monumental. We have travelled in the interiors of our own perceptions of love, fear, heartbreak, existential confusion and visceral pain. To bring out undertones of that very rumination of life, ‘Hope against Hope’, our January playlist is a subtle indulgence. For us, as an … Continue reading
Jean-Paul Sartre says that humans live in a constant state of abandonment and anguish. You are what you are and not what you are not, but you can choose to be what you are not by not being who you are. It’s the simplicity of existence & the undying need to hold yourself accountable. While … Continue reading
Featured Image by Vijay Sarathy I’ll send you my sky framed in the pixels of my phone, and you send me yours, promise me that you will, so that we can try to find the same details in both the pictures like it’s a puzzle from kindergarten. I want to know which cloud is from … Continue reading
Aqui Thami is an artist, scholar, founder of Sister Library and present-day revolutionary. As a migrant Indigenous woman living in Bombay, part of mainland India, Aqui transverses blood-torn borders to actively create and nurture spaces of feminist community. Esthesia Magazine spoke to Aqui about art and revolution, but also of the minutiae of political being … Continue reading
Featured Artwork by Ellen Von Wiegand In January of 2020, I took a week off from college because I couldn’t get out of bed. I would eat junk food all day, feel sorry for myself and pretend to sleep when my flatmates came over to talk. I missed several deadlines for … Continue reading
Part 3: The Self and Relationships “People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.” … Continue reading
Part 2: Mental Health and Self Care “Ten times a day something happens to me like this – some strengthening throb of amazement – some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.” … Continue reading
Part 1: The Pandemic The pieces of our material worlds, the nestling of our identities sewn into their seams — shift, turn and transform in significant ways with each turn of change in our lives. It has then, perhaps, not been unsurprising to observe that elements of our material realm have developed into new meanings; … Continue reading
Featured Artwork by Lim Cheol Hee my counsellor once asked me describe yourself in a few sentences. in response, i stared blankly at her. she then asked me what i thought my strengths and weaknesses were. i opened my mouth to answer but when i had nothing to say, i closed them back and stared at her again. what … Continue reading
