All this time, I tried so hard to love you. It became all I could think about. Over and over and over again. I forgot how to do anything else. I forgot how to breathe. It always made me feel like I was drowning.

what happens when we surrender all our aspirations and idealisms to summer and find that it fails to deliver? Shin Hui Lee draws upon the current atmosphere of #sadgirlsummer, analysing it as a vibe shift from #hotgirlsummer and likening/comparing it to the self-destructive aesthetics of Tumblr circa 2012 - 2014 Summer may not be able to make miracles happen, but that it can still be a fucking ball. An opportunity for us to release ourselves from the pressure of having fun under the sun at all costs, and to be okay with taking the time to heal and return to ourselves. Importantly, this is not a pessimistic post-Covid take on summer, but perhaps a realist one.”

"97" is a film focused around the procedures that women and feminine identifying people have to take in order to get home safely, and the unity we have in understanding that fear.

A collage zine by Sophie Mautner