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Each person’s heart is its own archive layered with the sediments of romance, friendship, family, grief—but not everyone has quite the right words for it. 

Two poems about love and desire.

Perhaps this is the film's quiet message. Love leaves traces, and these traces are what make us human.

Are we in love, or are we in love with the idea of being in love?

Writer Zarah Hashim discusses lust, love and heartbreak in this prose piece accompanied by a poem.

Tom Stoppard's encrypted word games sing of an ingenious thesis on love and its different forms.

A reflection on young love in the modern day and how cinema has shaped our romantic expectations (As told by a group of university film...

Layla (2024) is Amrou Al-Kadhi’s stunning directorial debut,   depicting the journey of the non-binary trans ‘Layla’ ( Bilal Hasna), who...

Drawing by Talloula Liveras-Dionysiou Was it one cup? Or maybe a cup and a half? I don’t think I’ve ever truly known the measurements of...

Drawing by Marine Pellissier There is an unsaid beauty in the backseat minivan glance shared between my brother and I when our parents...