Huda Awan
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Huda Awan, Somehow Forgotten — Sidecar
In her 1967 essay ‘The Aesthetics of Silence’, Susan Sontag writes how art, in the ‘modern era’, has become ‘something to be overthrown’. In this context, ‘a new element enters the individual artwork and becomes constitutive of it: the appeal (tacit or overt) for its own abolition – and, ultimately, for the abolition of art itself’. A recent exhibition at London’s Raven Row offers a striking display of work animated by this impulse.
Why Gen Z Loves to Invest
“Be the CEO. Money is your best employee,” reads the TikTok bio of Taylor Price, a twenty-five-year-old personal finance influencer who wants to “change the way Gen Z thinks about money.” Price’s philosophy is simple: financial freedom for her generation won’t come from a fat paycheck; it’ll be achieved by putting that paycheck to work through investment — and putting it to work as early as possible.
Huda Awan, Possibilities - Sidecar
I first heard about the work of the American writer Susan Taubes on a date. I mentioned that I wanted to write a novel that resisted fragmentation – one that would sustain a scene or an idea or a thought over several pages, several thousand words, in the flow of unbroken narrative. My date wasn’t impressed. The novel is such an expansive form, he replied, why would you want to write in such a conventional way? Because I admire it, I said. This proved persuasive and laid the matter to rest.
Elias Rodriques & Clinton Williamson
These days, scams seem to be everywhere. Our spam folders are full of advice about losing weight and improving our credit. Our social media accounts are flooded with messages from people who claim to be waiting for us, often in bed. Our phones buzz incessantly with calls from area codes we don’t recognize, or from contacts identified as spam risks, or from numbers that look uncannily like our own. We can imagine what might happen should we respond to these emails, messages, or calls.
Sex Work is (Gig) Work
For sex workers—including but by no means limited to escorts, porn performers, strippers, street workers, camgirls, rent boys, and exotic dancers—the rallying cry “sex work is work” has never been about merely stating the obvious but about making the obvious. That is, working to counter the conservative and, frequently, feminist forces that consider sex work a form of moral degradation, as dangerous, sinful, demeaning, or always coerced.
Je Suis Fuccboi
by Huda Awan Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi Wildfire, 352pp, ISBN 9781472293107, £16.99 I love men, and I love all kinds of them. I love skinny ones, ripped ones, ones with dad-bods. Funny ones, serious ones, tall ones, short ones. Men who regale you with facts, and ones that make you listen to all the obscure music they like. Men who are complete messes, and men who have their shit together. Men who talk about art and literature and politics, and men who are happier to listen to you talk instead.
YAAAAAAAAS Jesus: An Interview With Brontez Purnell
‘Forgive Me, Philip’ from Brontez Purnell’s White Boy Music EP was one of our tracks of the year in 2020. Now this year Purnell has published two novels. Huda Awan chats with the multitalented Bay Area resident about grief, trash, and why rock’n’roll is so boring these days Photo credit for author photo: Stephanie Lister How do you write about the pain of being alive without losing all of yourself? Brontez Purnell might have the answer.
All This Badness
by Huda Awan Roisin Kiberd, The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet Serpent's Tail 304pp ISBN 9781788165778 £12.99 The Disconnect: A Personal Journey through the Internet constitutes Irish writer Roisin Kiberd’s ‘attempt to make sense of what we’ve lost, and to consider the lonely dystopia in front of us.’ The essays comprising this debut collection grapple with subjects that include but are not limited to: 24-hour gyms, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, vapourwave music, energy...
Combatendo o Spotify
Damon Krudowski é músico. Ele idealiza um futuro onde toda a música digital, incluindo a dele, será livre para ser acessada e escutada gratuitamente. Crucialmente, no entanto, ninguém lucraria com isso. “Quando alguém lucra, isso é pirataria. E o Spotify é essencialmente uma versão legalizada de pirataria, até onde eu sei”, ele diz em nossa chamada de Zoom.
The Limits of Representation: Huda Awan Finds Herself in Portnoy’s Complaint
The first time I turned to notebook and pen with purpose, I did so while locked in the bathroom, the only room in the house with a key in the door. I was experiencing a fit of adolescent rage, incensed that my parents wouldn’t let me out of the house to go meet up with some friends in town.
I want to help you make the most of your pantry during the pandemic
My name is Huda, and I’m pretty good at cooking. I want to help you be good at cooking, too. These are unusual circumstances, and grocery shopping during a pandemic can be stressful and chaotic. Maybe you picked up loads of random shit you don’t usually eat, and now you’re at a loss as to what you should do with it all. Maybe you’re just sick of using your abundant supply of chickpeas to make the same damn curry.
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.
They Pretend to Think, We Pretend to Listen
Try to conjure up the dullest, most vapid intellectual experience you can possibly imagine. A Matthew Perry film festival. A boxed set of Kenny G’s entire discography. Al Gore “in conversation” with Wolf Blitzer. Now imagine something worse. Far, far worse.
The United Sades of America
Not long after I took refuge from the academy to work in the policy centers of Washington, I visited one of D.C.’s landmark bookstores, Politics and Prose—a literary venue known, as its name suggests, for furnishing customers with the conceit that they’re browsing and shopping in a vaguely subversive fashion. But as I walked up to join the store’s cultivated and edgy communitas, I committed a terrible error: I asked a clerk where I might find the works of the Marquis de Sade.
Twenty-Nothing
There died a myriad, And of the best, among them, For an old bitch gone in the teeth, For a botched civilization —Pound All across TV-Land official America is caught up in a serious but amusing identity crisis. Not that you’re having any difficulty with your own image, to be sure: your problem is in deciding just how to nail down a large and influential group of consumers so we can be properly targeted for TV shows, movies, records, and above all, advertising.
and yet I will send the nude photos
Suffer victim! bury your face between my eroding shores! crave my seaweed suckled rocks! thrill the creamy white mud! Suck the heat from my lips Catch my miserable breasts! frame by frame Think of my cavernous shores! frame by frame don’t forget to touch the glossy don’t forget to smear the curves Spread yourself on a page! feel the indestructable, forever capturing in two dimension I am caught in the camera bathroom I am preserved in the frame I am caught in the camera bathroom I am saved by...
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