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Articles by Elia Cugini
London’s newest gender clinic: what to expect
TransPlus, “the first integrated Gender, Sexual Health and HIV service commissioned by NHS England”, operates out of the 56 Dean Street clinic in Soho. This gender dysphoria service originally came out of on-the-ground clinic work, since trans patients self-medicating hormones would regularly ask Dean Street for hormonal bloods monitoring; accordingly, it has a different feel to most gender clinics, with a sunnier atmosphere and more visibly queer staff.
UK's private gender clinics; a guide to getting on hormones
If you wish to start on hormones through one of the UK’s private gender clinics, there are a range of online and in-person options available. Some services are currently experiencing functioning issues or extended wait times for care, while others have higher price points. This is a rundown of the main services in the UK, some notable things to know about their practice, their prices, and an estimate of their wait time for initial assessment.
Final Boss Still Attacking You Even Though You Specifically Requested He Stop
THE WITHERED FOREST — Completely ignoring your demands that he desist, the titular final boss of the game Nu’urath: Cruncher of Bones is reportedly still attacking you, sources have confirmed. “I don’t think they could have been much clearer,” said an onlooker, watching you roll away from Nu’urath’s Torment Axe while making affronted gestures. “It’s not really a fair fight, after all.
Voices from Tokyo’s Blue Tent Village
In 2007, a homeless artist and activist named Misako Ichimura started a homeless feminist group called NORA. NORA was founded in the Blue Tent Village, a homeless community in a park in Tokyo that Ichimura had lived in since 2003. The group provides a space for unhoused women to share goods, clothing, food, and information with one another. When time allows, they also sew and sell their own sanitary pads, which provides a source of income.
The Good Little Pig Problem
Last year, in a piece titled “How Crying on TikTok Sells Books,” the New York Times tracked how the social media app was ushering readers into the Age of the Ugly Cry: clusters of videos dedicated to “books that will make you sob” have reached millions of views and were having, according to publishing-industry insiders, a seismic effect on sales.
British satire is fanning the flames of fascism
Satirical culture in the UK routinely protects the powerful and punches down. It’s time people stopped laughing along, writes Elia Cugini. Satirical culture in the UK routinely protects the powerful and punches down. It’s time people stopped laughing along and took its threats seriously, writes Elia Cugini. Nobody does satire like the British.
I’m Not Feeling Good at All
The young woman works in an office. Her job is tedious: data entry, or coordinating the logistics for meaningless products, or proofreading niche trade publications with improbable names. She has no friends or resents the one she has. Her boyfriend is distant. Perhaps he’s not even her boyfriend anymore, but still, she thinks of him often. She rarely eats.
The Magic Kingdom
This is what I told myself the first time I visited Disney World as an adult, and in that moment, I believed it. I was riding Space Mountain, and I had been thinking about how my favorite rides at Disney—sorry, my favorite attractions at Disney—were the simple ones, the ones that had grown, conceptually, a little dated, a little frayed around the edges: childhood dreams of another era.
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