Astra #02 - Filth living “turning us into the statues”

“turning us into the statues” of a present in decline

host can incorporate much more than a sense of self and hospitality towards others — it can be conceived as a vessel

die auch nach 40 Jahren gefragt ist wie nie

his reflection a stranger to him

study and process

Astra #02 - Filth living “turning us into the statues”There is a moral element to filth. It is both what we have been taught to hide, and the subversive pleasure in revealing it. Many of the writers in this issue are queer or trans or otherwise outsiders. When you are taught that an intrinsic part of you is shameful, you find power in that shame. All that filth, compressed by the pressure, sparkles like diamonds when you let it into the light. Have you ever felt the relief of telling your own secrets?