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Graphic: Ella-Mae Earnshaw As restaurants open back up here’s a look back into the one activity the whole world took to in the confines of their own homes. Everyone probably has a moment when they realized that they would have to stay in their own home for a while. Many had a moment where they decided they would try to be productive and take up a new activity. As a collective, it seemed when everyone was isolating; we found one room in the house more appealing than most – th

Credits: Ella-Mae Earnshaw Strand Magazine's new column HomeCooked dives into lockdown stories from the kitchen. Natty Sae Jew writes about the nostalgia and comfort she found in cooking Salapao. “How was lockdown?” If you’d ask somebody this question a year ago, you’d probably get some very puzzled looks. Now, it’s practically a new way of saying “how are you?”. In the same vein, it’s a pretty loaded question: for some of us, it was a period of a much needed pause, but for

Quarantine is hard. Lockdown has taken away our normal like we never imagined. And you’re not alone, from the States to India or even Australia, everyone is in the same situation. All of us finding a way to cope, may it be compulsive knitting, MasterChef level cooking or taking a break from our fast-paced uni life to enjoy a book or two. Credits:Ella-Mae Earnshaw For me, the only thing

A few months of confinement have gone by in Paris and as I try to readjust my lifestyle around the restrictions that have been imposed, I feel very much trapped. I am not able to hang out with my friends, go beyond a one kilometre perimeter around my house, or even visit my father and my brother who live on the other side of town. Instead, I have found myself spending most of my time immersed in the online realm, in an attempt to seek out the face-to-face social interaction t

'Nighthawks', painting by Edward Hopper To go to London has always been a dream of mine. London: the self-advertised city of diversity,...

Transit: ‘The carrying of people or things from one place to another’. Living in England for almost three years has distorted my sense of...

This map is dedicated to a global voyage I did in 2018. Two years ago, I gapped a year from Peking University, left all my life behind in...

Fashion should challenge the conventional and merge materials, whilst creating a space for multi-cultural experimentation. For me,...

Island Mother You birth in me something ungiven, Not a will to live but rather A pair of permanently unfolded wings And a sadistic thirst...

Photo by Korie Cull For millennia, the Earth has endured abrupt fluctuations in greenhouse gases and global temperatures which arguably,...