love and dating
the answer cannot be to retreat from relationships. It has to be to take them more seriously. To kill that urge to run and avoid. Because we’ve got two choices here—crumble under the weight of this thing or go all in, against the odds. Forget pretending that love and family aren’t important, that they are oppressive, that loving ourselves is enough... See more
Freya India • The Age of Abandonment
We blunt romance and passion with this constant calculation of risk, this paranoid scanning for threats, and by holding back to avoid being hurt. We encourage each other to be emotionally absent, unfazed, uncaring. We even call it empowerment! It’s not. It’s neuroticism. I think we are a generation absolutely terrified of getting hurt and doing all... See more
Freya India • Risk-Aversion Is Killing Romance - By Freya India - GIRLS
Tinder’s latest campaign is inspired by couples’ first chats and real messages
campaignbriefasia.com
I Went to One of Tinder’s In-Person Dating Events. What I Saw Will Haunt All My Days.
Magdalene Taylorslate.com
Dating apps try to hop on the growing apathy towards dating apps by hosting IRL events. Does it work or doesn’t? Will this year be the fall of dating apps? Will a new dating platform (used loosely) emerge?
Being a romantic means being brave. To offer something to someone, with hope — the hope that they will like it. To show someone who you are by making something that only you could make. To be extra, to choose to build something extra. To manifest things that are strange and unexpected and surprising…
These acts can feel wildly vulnerable and frighte... See more
These acts can feel wildly vulnerable and frighte... See more
No Ordinary Love
no-ordinary-love.co
Becoming a vehicle for capitalistic desires of abundance and overconsumption. We’re asking, what would an underconsumption-core of love look like? What if we could take only what we required in the moment, better able to understand ourselves and our needs in the context of the present?
We are a living record of every interaction that fate has had us bear witness to. Love is not just a chance encounter that we hope to come across once or twice in our lives, it's the nuance that shapes the hidden layers of our story. Meaning care, or lack thereof, will manifest in varying aspects of our day to day.
Why did we start to over-romantici... See more
Why did we start to over-romantici... See more