Category: Magazine
An archive of Sunstroke Magazine articles, 2017 to 2024.
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She Lives Inside Me: Tending My Inner Child Through Home Movies
I’m in the right corner, the center; my head disappears and is replaced with my knees in intervals. Two beats of silence.
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The Intolerable Teething Problems of the Women’s Football Awards
Men’s football is granted the luxury of just existing while women’s football comes across as some moral act or work on the part of anyone who deigns to watch it.
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Jamie Lee Curtis and the Curse of Campaigns
Curtis simply joins actors like Al Pacino, Whoopi Goldberg and Kate Winslet who had career highs overlooked and lesser performances gilded, and because the Academy Awards would not be complete without campaigns.
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Love in All Its Contemporary Glory: Strange, Sexy Paradoxes in Savannah Brown’s ‘Closer Baby Closer’
Echoing the existentialism of her 2020 collection, Sweetdark, and that which characterizes much of her work outside of it, Brown pushes theory into the world of palpable, close subjects, rendering Closer Baby Closer a hushed portrayal of the private workings of a love-remembering mind.
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Tattoo, in the Morning
i try not to think / of the air right through his teeth / that two hours ago might / have been funny, but now we’re wanting a/c / on our tattoo-heavy / bodies
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The Pursuit of Greatness
We seem to be at a point where prestige is still something virtually inaccessible for people of color, women, and other marginalized identities. When we’re in blockbusters, we’re there to fill a “diversity quota,” but when we’re in more serious films, the director has gone “woke.”
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I Will Keep Your Middle Name: A Friend Breakup Grief Diary
In the interest of no longer caring for you, I’ve gone a long time without telling people I’m married to you. I announced divorce to a witness, just for good measure.
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Comexposed: The Making of a Creative Community
Zimbabwean creative community Comexposed has been bringing artists together for almost a decade now. Today it’s the go-to hub for any artist of any skill level. Through the WhatsApp group, artists can easily communicate, share art and exchange feedback.
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Sprinkler Splashes and Fireplaces Ashes: How Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Glitters With Intimate Hindsight
Swift has always made music that is upbeat, pop-leaning and lyrically straightforward — even kitschy at times — and her tenth album is in part a return to this style. But Midnights is gentler, more intimate and velvety, than any of her past work.
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The Joy and the Pain: Learning To Love Crying
I learned how to name my emotions and how to call them in: on our daily walks in the neighborhood, a particularly pretty patch of clouds and sun could later bring me to tears thinking about how much I loved and was grateful for the moment.