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To Love or Not to Love: Our Favourite Love and Anti-Love Songs
This week marks that polarising of all holidays, Valentine’s Day! Because the Urchins love you (yes, you), we thought we’d cover all bases, so that depending on how you feel this Thursday, we’d be there for you in any case. … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Holidays, Music
Tagged al green, all day sucker, and i love her, anti-love songs, beatles, buffalo springfield, cosmic love, expecting to fly, florence & the machine, florence and the machin, heartbreak, let's stay together, Love, love songs, stevie wonder, tegan and sara, unrequited love, valentine's day, where does the good go
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Read with a Child Today
Last Friday, an incomprehensible act of violence took the lives of 20 children and eight adults. In honour of the children whose lives were taken, and in dedication to the ones who survived, we would like to share some of … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Literature, Politics & Global Issues
Tagged alice mclerran, books, children, children's books, children's literature, eric carle, lost and found, Love, marije tolman, newtown, oliver jeffers, picture books, ronald tolman, sandy hook elementary school, the island, the mountain that loved a bird, tragedy
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I Came with Anna Karenina and I Left with Lolita
By Geo Ong Bear with me please while I allow myself to revisit, in an attempt at sincere reconciliation, one of the worst and most regrettable decisions of my life. For those who believe that there is one right person … Continue reading
Posted in Geo, Literature, Travel
Tagged anna karenina, books, edinburgh, fictional characters, lolita, Love, novels, reading
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This Is the Only Thing That I Am Sure Of: Love’s ‘Forever Changes’
By Jarrod Annis [Jarrod Annis is a contributor to the Urchin Movement. He lives and writes in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn.] Much like the kaleidoscopic conglomeration of faces that grace the album cover, there are many ways to approach Love’s Forever … Continue reading
You Can Leave, But It’s Going to Cost You
By Jarrod Annis [Jarrod Annis is a contributor to the Urchin Movement. He lives and writes in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn.] Falling in and out of love is the penultimate topic of pop music. But what happens when attractions and infatuations … Continue reading
The Urchins Give Thanks
Throughout my life, my mum, aunt, and grandparents instilled in me a respect for all people. I didn’t recognise race until I was in high school. I knew nothing of the constraints of ‘typical’ gender roles. I was taught to … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Holidays
Tagged acceptance, art, educators, family, giving thanks, Love, people, teachers, thanksgiving
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Which Way to the Hippies, Please?
By Sarah Jost For as long as I can remember I’ve wanted to live in a commune. Maybe it’s because I’m an only child and JUST CAN’T WAIT to hang out with people all the time. Maybe it’s because the … Continue reading
The Sublime-Banal Papers
By Geo Ong With the caliber of film and television decreasing at a steady rate (due not to a lack of talent, but to those industries being driven by money), what will the intellectuals of tomorrow have to dissect and … Continue reading
High Noon Urchins
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