❤️🔥Hot People are in a Situationship❤️🔥
is he hot or is he just fishing on our platform of revolution
Omg, how full are you from our dinner party last month??? It looks like there must have been some cuties in attendance, because now 💔 hot people are in a situationship❤️🔥 Equal parts spicy, equal parts heartbreaking, we have three new poems for you (including our first video piece!!) featuring work submitted to our first open call.
She’s just not that into sex anymore 🙅🏽♀️ by Helen Lovett
But did you try... Breathing gently into her mouth After trapping her bottom lip With no rush to remember The rest of the room Asking her about the sadness In the way that she smiles While her eyes drown In a busy bar at midnight Thinking that her mistaking You wanting to snack on ‘McKrokets’ for ‘MicroCats’ Was the best thing you’d ever heard Feeling her manicured nails Sink into the back of your hands While sliding your tongue To her own beat in the dark Explicitly telling her That you don’t want her to serve you When she offers you coffee From the cafe down the road Chasing her along the hall As a groveling Gollum While she high-pitch squeals Because she’s your precious
About Helen (She/Her): I use poetry as an extension of therapy and as a way to delve into hot conversation topics that me and my friends have discussed. Womens' sexuality has come up many times and there seems to be a repetitive pattern; men thinking that their partners are just not that into sex any more… and women thinking they no longer have a sex drive until they become single again. It seems like, rather than a lack of libido, these women are often feeling unappreciated, unseen and unloved ~ and this has led to a lack of interest in sex with their partner 🤷♀️
LIEBE IST KEIN VERTRAG / LOVE IS NO CONTRACT ⏳ by Coline Lepiouff
click to watch the full video!
About Coline (She/Her): Multimedia explorer, who tries to navigate human experiences through the dialog between disciplines, fields, languages, and mediums. Analog and digital, words and images, sounds and voice, stage and paper. You can follow Coline on instagram @ colinelpff
Is he hot or is he just 😒 by Stephanie Felten
Fishing on our platform of revolution, trash in shades of blue
The vertical power of a strong tree
My body betrays me
On second thought it is powerful and perseveres
Raindrops fisheye my thoughts
Trees with ancient underground networks extend for miles while dinosaurs swim in polluted waters
Fishing on the platform of exploitation of nature
The space for play is filled with waste
That's why the baby scowls from their buggy
The noise pollution of this aggressive corridor seeps into the green space
Is he hot or is he just…
Running hard on the field
Running with a ridiculous form
Holding his pipe too close
Hanging on to two rottweilers
Cooking with a camping stove
Feeling the rain against his skin with the hopes
of feeling something, human, anything
Sculpting headless forms
Just a child
Just lost
Rolling by, a shell of his former self
A part of the problem
We say dogs don't understand but what if they do
What if they are just as traumatized as we are without a way to express it
Never too old for football
Rest and play
The park holds peace and violence
Robbie move it move it
Weeping willows whole
No bowl cut
Manicured lawns and grasses traded for fertilizer polluted waters
Why do cars drive here
A century of destruction
Streets named for colonizers and owned by oil dynasties
A black cat like Felix
A lady said hello!
My smile is so big
I feel seen
I feel heard
Not abandoned like last week's trash on the curb
Ultra processed foods and gold strappy sandals
Is that anxiety or am I dying
The mice run from this restaurant as the sun sets
Is that ambulance working overtime for covid
Do these people have enough to eat are they warm in the winter time
Are there enough coffee shops to keep them all warm
Is the watermelon still good
Will the kid in the spiderman suit grow up to be a villain
What are the words that are stuck in my throat, that I am not willing to write
Exhausted after doing so little
People are darting with no place to cross and cars that don't belong pollute our air and our ears. About Stephanie (She/her): I am inspired by my passion for people, the earth, and community to write, occasionally. My strong sense of empathy and justice, combined with intuition and ability to absorb complex details, drives me to use writing as a tool to advocate for important issues. This is one of my first attempts at poetry, as a new form of expression on these topics. Also, I answered this like it's a job interview and a biography is too hard. K thanks!
Instructions for zine:
Download this PDF file front and back on a single sheet of A4 paper (we suggest a slightly thicker paper so the ink doesn’t bleed through, or you can also print it on two separate pages and have a zine + poster of Coline’s beautiful work!)
Fold along solid lines and cut along dotted line (follow this little diagram I found online to make it easier!)
Enjoy your Hot People are in a Situationship Zine!
Instead of texting them…
Why don’t you buy us a drink so we can keep making cool issues with your work…🍸
And if you’re curious to know how our situationships progress, subscribe & keep your eyes peeled for our final issue in this series, “💥 Hot People Cause Chaos 💣” dropping next month!!