It was high time to write a text where all the characters, including me, are fictitious, and the coincidences are random. This is exactly the case. Well, finally. I'm scrolling through profiles on Tinder. A friend jokes: you need an application where a man’s photo suddenly begins to shrink and move away animatedly. Then you will definitely feel that THIS IS HIM. Do you remember how we slept with our psychologist?

Anna Kurkurina's open lesbian identity serves as a critical fulcrum that challenges entrenched norms in the sports community (especially the Ukrainian one) and beyond. Her visibility is a statement against the pervasive heteronormativity in the sports environment, which often marginalizes or outright ignores queer identities.

There is a somewhat dark but very true joke: when Hollywood is done making remakes of good films, it will move on to bad ones. Somewhere in the 1990s, this joke ceased to be so, when Hollywood began to create remakes of very odious films, such as, for example, "Women's Day" directed by Mair Zarki or "Maniac" by William Lustig.

Login on behalf of the initiative What is ethnicity? What do we really mean when we say "we are Uzbeks"? Is it a descendant of the Oghuz, Kipchaks, Sogdians? Or belonging to one of the 96 clans mentioned in most ethnographic treatises? Why do some identities seem "natural" to us—as if they were always there—while others arouse in us a sense of doubt or rejection? Why does the line between "ourselves" and "others" seem so clear—and who actually draws that line?

tw: mention of violence, suicide Instead of an introduction D.-R. T.: It’s hard to deny the fact that cinema is one of the most popular mediums at the moment. The set of tools available to this area is quite simple and at the same time variable: cinema as a medium makes it possible to implement a wide variety of ideas.

The most interesting works of literature and art are full of suffering, conflict and tragedy - without these elements, stories would not be as exciting and “serious”. On the other hand, if it were a question of what kind of life we ​​want to live, all other things being equal, we would not be attracted by the prospect of a life full of suffering. But if people could build an ideal world, would they decide to get rid of all types of suffering at once? If not, why not?

What kind of music has Orthodoxy brought us? In addition to the church hymns of Bortnyansky, Grechaninov and Znamenny chant. I thought that there is one style that is essentially Orthodox - reggae. Indeed, Rastafarianism is an Orthodox apocalyptic sect. Yes, this sect is heretical, marginal. But there is no question of dogma in music; style and vibe are more important here. And the vibe and style of the Rastas is Orthodox.

Continuing the latest trend, I would like to draw your attention to Harman’s article - “The Battle of Objects and Subjects: Concerning Sbriglia and Žižek’s Subject Lessons Anthology”. It is important because this time Harman does not beat around the bush and directly addresses his main opponents, touching on aspects of Lacan’s theory and, in fact, the ontology on which the entire project of Lacan’s psychoanalysis stands.