Natalia Dembowska

As I turn around I see a white rabbit: Who are you, white rabbit? - I ask. The white rabbit looks at me, puzzled, and sends me a telepathic message that goes along the lines of: Didn’t you realise they stopped putting rose petals on Fig & Tonka Latte?

SPIRAL collaborated on a display with designers from Studio Culture & Identity in Bremen in order to showcase their publication in the Netherlands. LYUTYY is based on research by 9 artists who traveled to Berlin in order to interact with Ukrainian refugees; hear them out and find out what their subjective experience of fleeing the war in Ukraine is and resultantly what residing in another country feels like in such circumstances.

Comforting, yet disturbing, the new Netflix Christmas movie starring Lindsay Lohan will give you everything you need to start this holiday season in an unsettling solace - something that Christmas is all about.

I’ll tell you why you never let go. The reason why you always hold on and why you always come back. You think all you want is rest but really all you want is stimulation. You don’t want to have a break, you fucking love it. You love to indulge, you love to feel pleasure. You’re ready to puke just to swallow half a glass of foamed oat milk with some sickly cancer powder.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re “right” or “wrong”, whether your reasoning is rational or whether your intention is good. Sexuality is something personal and it’s unique for each and every one of us. We can’t begin to imagine how hard, complex, personal and/or traumatising someone’s relationship with it can be, so we ought to relate to others with the necessary humility and respect.

Without mushrooms, life would collapse. And not only do we owe our existence to them – they can also teach us about the meaning of life. Yet most of us don’t know much about mushrooms. Looking at the outside, all they see are toadstools. But mushrooms are not just insignificant hat-wearing creatures. They are at the very core of all life on earth. And they are much more advanced and life-sustaining than human beings will ever be.

Recently and unfortunately, I stumbled upon an annoying phenomenon, which I will share with you today. It is one thing for the barista to know your usual order and greet you asking - Good morning, the usual? It’s a different story to enter a café, make eye contact with the barista, and steal their line by saying - Good morning, the usual! Don’t do that. Just don’t ever do that.

As a teenager I once threw a house party for which my parents have never forgiven me (but that’s a story for another time). A friend of mine, partaking in an illegal activity, was taking fat bong rips. In a series of events that was as unfortunate as sudden, he ingested some of the swampy bong water. And that must have been exactly what it is like to watch Disjointed.

As you watch episode after episode, Emily cuts your chest open and eats your medium-rare heart out. She then sends it back to the kitchen because she thinks it’s undercooked. Please, save yourself some time and do not waste it on Emily in Paris.

I’ve always found the term “walk of shame” tasteless and passé—the word “shame” has painfully obvious negative connotations of guilt and embarrassment, after all. To illustrate the famous walk of shame, let me share my most recent one. After a long, delicious night of steamy sex, I opened my eyes to sun slowly spilling into my lover’s room. I laid there for a while, lazy and warm from well-deserved sleep. Next to me was the coolest, most beautiful man.