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the longest night, the shortest day, of 2017 – birthing Sapienism, long after its conception

We may need God to “hope against hope,” to dream the impossible dream, but such freedom involves a leap of imagination, not of religious...

If comedy is “the art of tension diffusion,” as Hannah Gadsby puts it, it’s a different sort of “tension diffusion” she's after – the...

A meandering trip from Gallup, through Norman Rockwell, to LSD – a first part of a duo on Knowing. I hope to soon write the second-part...

Writer and Illustrator: Keshet Leah Abulof I heard many stories from my friend, and I thought this one is the least scary… Once upon a...

LOVE/R this child is still -born. It assumes airs and love and dies. It had no air, before it needed air, and no amount of wind can bring...

This post is part of Sapienism's online symposium dedicated to Luca Guadagnino's 2017 film, Call Me by Your Name. Each of the four...

One of the first questions that came to my mind while watching Call Me by Your Name was - why choosing this title, and more importantly,...

Why leave your love? I search for answers in Call Me by Your Name (the film & the book), and Milton’s Paradise Lost. This post is part of...

The universe of Call Me by Your Name is remarkably separate from external context. The story occurs in a dreamy, unperturbed bubble....

What if you received an email saying you had been erased from someone’s memory, and that you should no longer attempt to contact them?...

Few principles are more powerful, and perilous, than self-determination: It can tear states apart, and erect new ones; it can foster war,...