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Jodie Comer is the actress of her generation, pass it on!!! Writing about theatre and accents and Liverpool. Writing about truth and lies and change. You can find the written version of this on The White Pube . Listen til the end for today's emoji + thank you for listening I love you

I got COVID in January 2021 and I spent last year in a pit, stuck at home, no energy, in pain, dealing with the vague endlessness of Long Covid. In the middle of January 2022, I posted a one year update podcast episode where I told you lot how bad Long Covid continued to be. BUT!! At the end of that month, I had an in-person appointment with the Long Covid Clinic in Liverpool where they did a test...

this week's text is about my favourite painter: Bhupen Khakhar :) You can read the text version of this here - thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/bhupenkhakhar/ n there are lil pics of the paintings I've described in this text, if you wana see the real things rather than my description hehe thank you to the patreon gan, as perrrrr - patreon.com/thewhitepube

A review, an emoji, and an update on our writing schedule :o I hope you like cats because this week I talk about the newly released Stray, a game I waited so long for. The written version of this text can be found on our website here . Thank you to our supporters ; we have been trying in earnest to get a podcast sponsor all year and I think we are un-sponsorable so if you are a regular listener pl...

This week's text is a guided meditation, a walk through Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art @ York Art Gallery. It's best experienced as audio, but just in case you're looking for it, the text version of this can be found on the White Pube dot com (here: thewhitepube.co.uk/art-reviews/body-vessel-clay/ ) As always, thank you to our patreon friends! You can join the club he...

Another review that's not so much a review and more a reflection on disability. A game about needing things, a text about learning to want more. Survival game as chronic illness simulation. Also an account of my time in London. You can find the written version of this on The White Pube ! Thank you to all our supporters , and make sure you listen to the end for today's emoji :-))))) 

This week's text is a review of Sun & Sea , an opera about climate change, at the Albany as part of LIFT. It's also a text about heatwaves and the Second Body. You can read the text version of this review here: thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/sun-and-sea/ Thank you, as usual, to our friends on Patreon ! 

For the 23rd TWP Writers Grant, we’re excited to announce that July’s recipient is Lottie Walker. Lottie sent us a collection of poems and we were immediately smitten with their cleverness and dexterity. Lottie’s poems had a sharpness, this citrus kick that felt like salt on a wound. They stung us and in the same, offered a full complexity that we could chew on. We’re sharing that collection of Lo...

This week I'm thinking about all the identity art that just lets me know people with different identities exist and nothing more. Listen here or find the written version of this on the art section on our website where I have also added a p.s. with some more examples of Level One Identity Art. Wishing you shade and relief in this genuinely terrible heatwave. God help us all.  Thank you to our...

This week's text is about Munch's paintings, a lil walk through of when i went to see the masterpieces from Bergen show at the Courtauld and had a really nice time read it here: thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/munch/ and thank you, as usual, to friends on Patreon !  😱

A book review! A book you should all go and buy now. This week's review is on Tell Me I'm Worthless, the debut novel from Alison Rumfitt. A book about a haunted house; a book about fascism.  You can find the written version of this on the /misc section of our website Thank you to our Patreon+Paypal+Kofi supporters for keeping us in business !!!!! Join the discord here 

This week's text is a review of Cloud Point, a group show curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, at Paradise Row.  Read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/art-reviews/cloud-point/

Now the highest grossing A24 film of all time, this week's review is Everything Everywhere All At Once. I had an issue with the way it ended but I think that's on me 🤪 You can find the written version of this on the /misc section of our website & as always, thank you to our good looking genius supporters for keeping us in business we love you 

This week's text is a review of RIP Germain's show, Shimmer, which was on at Two Queens in Leicester.  read it here: https://thewhitepube.co.uk/art-reviews/shimmerripgermain/ & as always, thank you to our friends on patreon ! 

Do you know Hieronymus Bosch's painting The Garden of Earthly Delights? Do you know the Twitter bot that just posts close-ups of the painting all day long? This week's review is Bosch Bot, thinking about a bot as a curatorial tool and just how much more  engaged I am with the painting via this mad Twitter presentation than I would be if I was stood in the Prado in Madrid squinting at it IRL.&...

This week's text is a second portrait in our ongoing series, having a snoop and a natter, chatting to people around the UK for a sneaky peek into what creative life is like for people wherever they are.  This text is a portrait of the co-Director of an artist-led space in Leicester, we go to a sports bar, eat Masala Mogo and chat about everything: from art as an alternative value system, to w...

For the 21st recipient of The White Pube Writers Grant, we are very excited to support the work of Rutendo D. Bradley. Rutendo sent us an excerpt from the novel she started as part of her dissertation, ‘The Devil’s King,’ a project she is now hoping to work on full-time. The opening we read was so effective in its world-building, with its historical language and raw landscape, and its intense popu...

Apparently I'm just really into thinking about social media atm, so continuing on from the Chaotic Nightclub Photos review, in this episode I look at @afffirmations on Instagram. Thinking about sincerity, irony, not knowing what's going on, mental wellbeing, and how I want to spend my time online. You can find the written version of this review here . Thank you for listening 8-) Thank you to our P...

It's white girl art revisited! uh-oh. In 2019, I wrote a text that was read by way more people than I was expecting. It caused a stir, caused me nightmares, and I've buried my head in the sand about it ever since. In this episode, we re-read the text and give it a much-needed exorcism. You can find the transcription for this episode on our website here . I'm sweating Thank you to our Patreon, Payp...

This week's text is a review of Shenece Oretha: Ah So It Go, A No So It Go, Go So! at Cubitt. It's also the last show of Languid Hands’ curatorial fellowship programme at the gallery, so i am rly happy n glad to be writing about this show, and hope i've made it clear that I LOVED THIS SHOW!!! read the text version here: thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/sheneceorethacubitt/ & as per, thank you to o...

This week's text is something a bit different. It's not a review, it's not an essay, it's kind of just a story. So it makes me nervous, but here we are all the same.  I don’t want to give the game away, I don’t want to let you in on the big secret. But this is fiction… slightly, sort of. This isn’t real - oh, but it is. I don’t know what to tell you, you’re just going to have to believe me. r...

This week's review is on Old, M. Night Shyamalan's 2021 release about a supernatural beach. It appears the filmmaker has a track record of exploiting disability for horror in his films but I don't often watch films so I personally had no idea. This text is me working that out 💀  You can find the written version of this on The White Pube . Thanks for listening! And thank you especially to our...

We’ve known each other since 2013 but now we know each other on quite frankly an unnecessary level after recording this episode lmao. Using a few decks courtesy of So Cards, we ask each other questions and end up discussing smoking, Zarina’s dream job, education reform, how our exes don’t exist, IBS in public, taxi drivers, becoming Jack Grealish, and of course, our shared praise kink. You can fin...

TW: discussion of disordered eating This week's text is about hunger. I don't know what it means anymore and that scares me, but it's ok because it is aimless, empty.  Read the text version on the site: thewhitepube.com/misc/im-hungry/ and thank you! to everyone that supports us on Patreon, Ko-fi and Paypal!

Do you ever... cheat? I don't. No, I would never. Or I wouldn't. But then something happened that meant I started to cheat all the time. This week's text is called Learning to Cheat! You can find the audio version on our website here BUT I have actually made this text into a video that you can watch here . It's something I've wanted to try for a while and this text felt like the right one to try i...