Who Wants to Live on Women's Land? - The Sunday Long Read
“Relentless work schedules, soaring rents, the rabbit hole of online dating, tech bros pulling the strings of international geopolitics... It’s only natural that we’ve started fantasizing about feminized, sustainable, close-knit communities united by a meaningful purpose. It’s just so tempting.”
Carmen Urbita
The Hottest Club In Town? The Convent
A couple of hours later I leave with a pot of lemon balm for my garden stuffed into a plastic bag — one of the house rules is that no guest goes without something to take home. Oldfield is setting up to work on her podcast before preparing for house night. Her advice is to “resist the ties that pull us apart” and it seems like wise counsel. “There... See more
Lucy Denyer • Our middle-class commune (joint bank accounts, noisy sex and all)
It’s not that there’s nothing wonderful—or challenging, in an interesting way—about making and cultivating an isolated living space. But it’s definitely a less natural way of being, at least if you’re taking human history into account. That we’ve come to see it as admirable says a lot about our culture: our commitment to individualism, our emphasis... See more