Happy Thursday, dolls! 💖

We hope you’ve been having a lovely week!  Here’s all of the fab new content up on The Dollhouse that we can’t wait to share with you!!🕺 Let’s get into it…..

ON SNOOZE - Notes On Patriarchy Pedantry

Dia VanGunten explores pedantic men who think with their d*cks and and suggest to support her art financially in exchange for nudes in this creative essay…

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CARNIVAL YEARBOOK is a Celebration of Notting Hill

CARNIVAL YEARBOOK highlights how individual identity and style experimentation is an integral part of carnival festivities. Inspiration came from archive photographs of carnivals of the past: from Notting Hill to the original carnivals of Trinidad and the West Indies.

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Maze on Neurodivergent Partying, Sober DJing and Being Daddy

Issey Gladston chats with Maze on how to make events more accessible for neurodivergent people, how DJing fuels their sobriety and more in this interview!

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Poppy Ajudha’s Letter To Her Younger Self

‘Dear Poppy, right now you are 10 years old, P!NK is playing on the radio and you’re convinced she’s stolen your song because at playtime last week you were writing the exact same thing!’

In this personal essay, South London singer-songwriter Poppy Ajudha writers a letter to her younger self.

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The (Bad) Taste Test: In Crimes of the Future, David Cronenberg Says Trans Rights

Sam Moore is back with this essay on In Crimes of the Future by body horror connoisseur David Cronenberg and how the films themes of transformation can be read as an allegory for the trans experience   - “characters have always found liberation; a new language, as much as a new flesh. This is what Crimes of the Future offers”.

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Film Fatale: Ginger Snaps and Unnerving Girl Autumn

This months Film Fatale column by Charlotte Landrum is on the ultimate Unnerving Girl Autumn film Ginger Snaps. This essay explores why transforming into a werewolf and starting your period is almost the same thing and why we’re so drawn to ‘weird girls’ in horror.

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Art Rookie: Reimagining Black Histories and Stories: Lubaina Himid At The Tate Modern

Zara Aftab is back with Art Rookie and is taking us through the recent exhibition by Lubaina Himid at the Tate Modern, an artist who played a crucial role in the British Black Arts movement that began in the 80’s, championing the work of underrepresented artists through exhibitions.

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That's all from us this week folks. Love ya.

XOXO,

The Polyester Team 💟