

On transforming hospital wards into stages, building theatre families where care matters as much as talent, and why live storytelling remains our most essential resistance against forgetting how to feel

What is success? And how is it measured, especially on creatives and artists? Is it bound to money, fame, and material things? Or is there a bit more to it?

Thank you for walking with us. Thank you for reading. Thank you for believing that depth and humanity still matter. Here’s to 2026 — and to everything still to come.

Jaixia Blue isn’t rushing toward anything. She’s listening. Making. Holding space. And in doing so, she continues to create exactly what she set out to offer: a soft place to land.

Where Zeina Azzam reaches for words, Ahmed Muhanna reaches for his brush: from one word, from one brushstroke, emerges a movement. A mirror of humanity.

Hala Alyan’s emotional memoir is shaped by miscarriage, exile, resilience, and the enduring power of storytelling to hold grief and hope together.

Jenan Matari is an award-winning Palestinian storyteller, author, and producer, amplifying Indigenous Palestinian voices and weaving narratives of existence and survival into advocacy.

The Surprisingly Simple Secret to Online Joy

The tradwife aesthetic intertwines nostalgia and politics, raising debates on feminism, choice, and potential regressions in women’s rights.

One woman’s undercover investigation into the manosphere reveals how normalised extreme misogyny has become.