Welcome to my new subscribers and thank you so much for reading me! this is hunter, a seasonal moodboard of things i hunted and gathered for the season to come. previous editions can be found here.
I’m working in the garden, what a joy. Showing my excel tables where they belong (in the wild), the grass is high and sprinkled with bright yellow flowers. We don’t really want to mow, is so much prettier in its wild state. Someone please bring me a sangria or a pitcher of limonata, the sun is filtering through a tree so I can see my screen perfectly. I’m ill and my throat is killing me but this might just nurse me back to health.1
I have 16 drafts in the work and no energy to edit them and I refuse to half-ass any of them because I have been working hard. Reading and researching my topics deeply, falling into rabbit holes, planning the publication’s order to correspond with the many elections (Wednesday’s essays) and the summer (Friday’s journal). I’m rather mad about it actually, frowning under a blanket, cuddled up with my cough syrup.
How dare my body let me down at such a critical moment? so not brat of me.
I hope the readings below inspire you to vote tomorrow so we can celebrate the end of the Tory era and, hopefully, the start of a better one. As many countries have taken a far-right turn towards populism, Britain is expected to drive back to the left. 14 years, and the rest, of conservative government have drained the country and proved itself as a failure. Let’s move on, shall we?
Three books from a political party girl (me)
1/ Corker by Hannah Crosbie, an unserious wine guide dedicated to pair situations rather than meals, read as a birthday gift for myself
2/ Feminism, Interrupted by Lola Olufemi, a radical feminist manifesto putting feminism back into a wider conversation, bought at an independent activist bookshop near St Pancras
3/ The Invisible Doctrine by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison, an absolute must-read of political theories, I have not stopped thinking about this since I read it. I also recommend this article on Britain’s poor mental health and how it ties in with neoliberalism
Thirteen articles I loved, in no particular order
1/ It shouldn’t be so hard to live near your friends, Vox
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3/ A moment that changed me: my partner drove off and left me – and in solitude I found my self-confidence, the Guardian
4/ Stop Sitting In The Waiting Room Of Your Own Life, Refinery29
5/ Can we be actually normal about birth rates? Vox
6/ With Europe’s support, North African nations push migrants to the desert, the Washington Post
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8/ The obscure federal intelligence bureau that got Vietnam, Iraq, and Ukraine right, Vox
9/ Breakfast with Olivia Laing, Toast
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11/ I was the first Muslim leader of a Western democracy. And I say Islamophobia has poisoned our politics, the Guardian
12/ Will The Used Bookstore Save Us? byline
13/ ‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books, the Guardian2
have a very brat summer
Well, it didn’t. I have been ill since. Bedridden. An absolute lack of energy and the inability to write a coherent sentence.
I used to live on the same road as the library mentioned, in Reading, and this article was simply amazing. a beautiful slap of journalism, such an impactful narrative. no notes.