Progressive culture since 1954
Right now, somebody in the world is listening to ‘Maniac’ by Michael Sembello. The music triggers a memory: knee-high legwarmers, a dark leotard, and close ups of a young woman’s toned body as she dances – like a maniac? – in an abandoned warehouse that she calls home.
It’s me, I’m listening to it.
For anyone involved in the difficult business of trying to change the world, Against the Storm will be a special and touching read. Let’s hope to find more documents like this, examples of practical organising against all odds, against the powerful, against their storm.
Hope you didn’t have any plans this summer, because we need you to clear your schedule for our first special fiction edition of 2020.
Friends, it’s getting dark. gumbih bundahng juhm. Australia is burning, the streets of its cities choke with miasmic smoke. junugur nyabay? A smirking unprincipled marketing executive rules the land, and an amoral fop has just been handed the biggest conservative majority in Westminster since Thatcher.
All human bodies naturally grow hair pretty much everywhere in varying qualities of thickness and presumably for a brief glorious period between the evolution of the modern homo sapiens and the invention of the patriarchy we all accepted that and let women chill out with their fuzz out for five whole seconds.