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Ecological grief and the power of Braiding Sweetgrass
The modern world has forgotten how to give back, but we must remember how to reciprocate, how to return all we have taken.
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Approaching men in a cool girl experimental way
Outwardly, I know that approaching men makes me look outgoing and self-assured, but the truth is that I’m just as scared as everyone else. When I’m flirting with a stranger, I feel like I’m taking on a persona. I’m entertaining my friends, I’m putting on a show.
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The Mirror and the Void
This dread, of course, comes from the events of the world around us, and I’m not looking to minimize the burden, but I suspected that the world’s crises and failures weren’t the only weights on the scale. It was something internal, individual, and inward.
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Walkabout (1971), dir. Nicolas Roeg
Western art has long carried the trope within it that when settlers go into a desert that doesn’t belong to them, they find themselves reflected back, like a mirage. Walkabout reiterates this idea and suggests, too, that when communication across experience eludes us—because it is impossible, or because it would require too much surrender of the self—we retreat to the frictionless Eden of fantasy.
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2025: Reading in Review
“A sense of justice—and the forms of writing that are best equipped to discuss injustice—is in large part why I am excited to keep reading Equator magazine as we go into 2026. I am amazed by one essay connecting the Italian Renaissance to Abu Ghraib, and I hope that The Mirror can house writing like that in the near future.”
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Letter from the editors
With increasing inescapability, our attention, time, and modes of communication are captured, converted into data, and sold. And the product that we receive in return displays a world increasingly less human.
