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arts writer | FT, The Independent, Art Review, Dazed, The Face, VICE, Time Out etc | the blue room @makinabooks | rep @Kat_Aitken eloisehendy @hotmail .co.uk 💌
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I wrote about feeling too financially insecure to have a child, and how people are being priced out of parenthood, for my first
@StylistMagazine
front cover! 👶💸
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sometimes when things are falling apart they may actually be falling into place💋
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at this stage you’re either in or you’re out, and personally, i am very in
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if you didn't already know that the london rental scene is the wild west, here is a post written in the voice of two cats, offering someone the chance to sleep in a living room. for £1000 a month
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Francis Bacon ‘Study for Bullfight No.1’ / Johnny Knoxville ‘Jackass Forever’
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new sally rooney and a general election?? insufferable summer incoming
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the only coronavirus content I want to read is by Anne Boyer
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this might be the bit of Discourse that finally pushes me to forget how to read
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have literally never earned more than this while living in London and can confirm it’s possible but it is also increasingly horrible
I believe as a young single adult you can manage fine in London on about £25-28k
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this is so sad! Michael is a total local legend - community gardener, the 'manager' of Nunhead Elvis, and the first person to challenge the Crown Prosecution Service on the notion of 'obscenity' in law. let him dance!!!
Remember that guy who was filmed dancing in Fabric?
@ChiaraWilkinson
tracked him down and :((
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why did no one tell me about Anne Rothenstein’s weary, lethargic women earlier, v disappointed in all of you
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@VictoriaFutures
thanks for sharing my cover story! definitely could have written another 2000 words on this !!
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find this kind of shit so profoundly depressing. like, please I beg you have some thoughts
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not olivia laing weighing in with a ukrainian flag inspired still life i swear to god
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31 whole tracks just for corporate barbie to say ‘my boyfriend was so depressed i dreamed about fucking a racist’
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"is poor things feminist or is it ableist," "have greta gerwig and margot robbie been snubbed," "is saltburn class satire" god help me I am so bored!!!!
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feels like a fairly strange thing to announce on here, but after months of agonising, last week I quit my PhD. it’s a pretty bleak time to throw myself at the job market, so if anyone wants to commission me to write about contemporary lit, politics and culture that’d be swell! 🤠
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told my gigantic boyfriend to wave my Sugababes t shirt in the air at Glastonbury, in the desperate hope the girls would see it. just discovered they posted it on their Instagram 🥹🥹
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if you need me to do anything this week, i’m afraid i’ll be busy thinking about Agnes Varda and Susan Sontag smoking and glowering through this interview where Jack Kroll constantly interrupts them and describes his questions as playing ‘devils advocate’
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"Campbell’s issue isn’t her privilege – it’s her total lack of self-awareness" -- I feel like I have been waiting for this piece for years!
Grace Campbell is a sitcom character
The comedian is confused about who she is.
www.newstatesman.com
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wrote about what the hell is going on with dating at the moment, for
@Independent
(didn’t write the headline!)
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god bless the confidence of men, my bf just totally earnestly said "i want to work for nasa". he has an english degree
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Bernie Sanders was v nearly overshadowed at the
@RMTunion
rally by a surprise guest speaker
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without commenting directly on the lucy letby case, one thing that is clear is that tory austerity policies have led to countless unnecessary deaths of the most vulnerable in society, and by rights the architects of those policies should be hounded out of public life forever
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now my new years hangover has cleared, I'm v happy to say I will be writing for
@Independent
more regularly this year and also have a shiny new email address, so please send any and all relevant PR emails / culture news etc to eloise.hendy
@independent
.co.uk 💌
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are you under 35 and do you still send Christmas cards?? if so, I’d love to chat to you for a Vice piece! DMs open / email eloise.hendy
@vice
.com 🤶🏼
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my first cover story for
@StylistMagazine
👶💸
thank you to everyone who spoke to me for this feature!
Once upon a time, motherhood felt like a financially feasible life path for most. So why is a generation of women now caught between their desire to have a baby and their depleting bank balances?
Read this week's Stylist Extra cover story:
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it should be illegal for letting agents to email you like this
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@VictoriaFutures
Ah thanks so much! Here's a link to the story (though it is unfortunately behind a paywall at the moment) -
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I wrote about the gender essentialism of contemporary personal essays, why critics of these stories are labelled as ‘abuse apologists’, and the scourge of ‘relatability’, for
@Independent
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why are people replying to this saying new york is expensive. i know. i would just like 75 thousand dollars.
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What links a social uprising in Chile, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Amber Heard? Well, according to
#WhoTrolledAmber
the answer is disinformation, on a vast scale
I spoke to
@AlexiMostrous
about the podcast, for the
@Independent
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my PayPal is Send me £5 to go from dunkin donuts to touchin butts 😇
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look look look I don’t want to be “that girl who dunks on Olivia Laing everyday” but SHE MAKES IT VERY DIFFICULT NOT TO BE
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had an identity crisis and applied to run a Sam Smith's pub over the weekend and just got a call FROM SAM SMITH HIMSELF 🙃
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for
@Independent
this week, I wrote about why the prospect of turning 30 still seems to make everyone go completely insane (myself very much included!!)
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I campaigned for Faiza in Chingford on the final day of 2019’s election campaign, walking 40,000 steps in 8 hours in the pouring rain. It’s less than 5 years later, and I’ll never vote labour again
“Honestly I’m so shocked right now, to be treated this badly”
Faiza Shaheen, who was set to stand for Labour, describes hearing that her candidacy had been pulled over liking a series of Tweets which she claims Labour said would frustrate its campaign
#Newsnight
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show me a single person on gods green earth who asked for this
Gillian Anderson, Keeley Hawes, Billie Piper and Rufus Sewell will star in SCOOP, based on Sam McAlister’s (Billie Piper) memoir giving the inside account of Newsnight’s bombshell interview with Prince Andrew (Rufus Sewell) as conducted by Emily Maitlis (Gillian Anderson).
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happy sunday, I wrote about SUFFERING (and misery lit, and the trauma plot, and why I’m sick of pain as a lucrative genre)
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imagine getting to interview margaret atwood and being told you’re an obsessive loser. so embarrassing. being a terf is just so embarrassing
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just got an offer for AHRC funding, I can do my PhD, excuse me while I howl in the street !!!!!!
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god the girls you created to sunbathe and eat grapes are wearing sweater vests in july
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I’m being deadly serious when I say amassing a collection of 60 dvds from various charity shops over the last 6 months has been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made
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"I don’t know why we...young feminist film critics – are not more wary of this film, this film which finishes on a note of contentment at the image of a thirty-something woman without friends or interests coming home from work to do more work at her desk"
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really think every journalist, freelance or otherwise, has a responsibility to complain and call out Catherine Bennett’s column, and all the outrageous, fraudulent and transphobic content the Guardian / Observer seem to feel comfortable publishing
I will be making a complaint and urge others to do the same. I will seek further advice in the week.
guardian.readers
@theguardian
.com
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I wrote about all those "Anne Hathaway doesn't age because she's unproblematic" tweets, beauty culture's anti-ageing campaign, and why equating good looks and youthfulness with moral purity is not a vibe, for
@Independent
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are you / do you know a very good looking man who would like to speak to me about the experience of being a very good looking man, for a
@VICE
piece?? (this isn't just for my own pleasure I promise) please get in touch!
#journorequest
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genuinely think a lot of people On Here wildly over estimate how much many people in london earn. this is just everyone in the arts - housesharing, not saving, not buying clothes or going out to eat often, no gym membership, finding it hard to go on holiday etc etc
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yesterday I watched Steve McQueen's 24-minute film 'Grenfell' - an unedited, single-shot record of the Tower in ruins. It is hypnotising in its horror, and a haunting vision of a crime committed in the service of profit
read my review on
@Independent
:
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how much money must you be earning to fight over whether $75k is a lot of money for a graduate journalism job. it simply is, are you all ok
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@LouisStaples
blokecore came up as a trend on my depop the other day and the first item was this
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I wrote about Blonde, fictionalising history, and the contemporary cult of dead girls, for
@TheFaceMagazine
(spoiler alert: fiction is good, Blonde is very, very bad)
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@samwrite
i dunno, are major us cities really DOUBLY more expensive than london?? because most equivalent roles here are usually max 30k
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genuinely don't think I've seen a worse job advertised. truly horrendous, hideous stuff
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the “barbie gf oppenheimer bf” vibes coming off this photo are too strong
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of course the opening paragraph of Claire-Louise Bennett's piece for
@vittlesmagazine
is sublime
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I thought it was a fever dream but no, olivia laing really did describe her Moët laden fridge as full of “food that needs visas” that “stands against death” (once again in kathy acker cosplay)
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Video set to release documentary titled “The Last Radio Star”
#Netflix
is set to release a documentary titled 'The Last Blockbuster.'
Photo: David Friedman/Getty Images
Trailer:
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I CAN’T BELIEVE I’M SAYING THIS but I’m shortlisted for
@TheWhiteReview
Poet’s Prize!!! This is a literal dream, wow oh wow
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finding the freelance thing very strange at the moment!! constantly having "career highs" in terms of opportunities and commissions but also constantly living out of my overdraft. real jekyll and hyde type job good lord
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I'm working on a piece about side hustle culture, and I'm looking to speak to people about HOBBIES. has the pressure to monetise everything killed off hobbies? is there a special pleasure to hobbies that aren't spun into income or content? DMs open / email in bio!
#journorequest
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about the size of what
BREAKING 🚨: An asteroid the size of about 69 American alligators will pass by Earth on Tuesday
via NASA asteroid tracker
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finally sorting recent proofs into release order and actually looking forward to the next couple of months?? radical concept!
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learning that mia goth has a child with shia labeouf and that she sounds like this, all in the space of a week, has ravaged me mentally
mia goth talks about what she would do if she wasn’t an actor!
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couldn't stop thinking about corporate feminist playgrounds, so wrote this piece relating The Wing + Glossier's maximalist aesthetic to cupcake fascism 🧁
The Wing: where maximalist kitsch and corporate feminism come to play
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I'm absolutely over the moon to announce that I am now represented by
@Kat_Aitken
at United Agents. The start of very exciting things!!
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@VictoriaFutures
that's so generous of you to say! I think a lot of people have found it relatable - unfortunately!!
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freelancing = that 'i just need to get through this week' meme, but it's 'i just need to have another idea' every day, forever
Nothing like seeing “think about ideas” on your weekly to do list to ensure that you feel like you’ll never have another idea in your life.
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I kid you not, the landlord's response to this is "why don't they buy their own property and pay off their own mortgage" 💀💀
@michaeljswalker
is really doing the good lord's work with Crash Course pod!
Why should poor people be made to pay rich people's mortgages?
I asked the president-elect of the Association of Residential Letting Agent, and a landlord of three properties.
Full debate here ->
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I strongly urge everyone to go and listen to the whole series from
@tortoise
now, as this piece barely scratches the surface on what Alexi and his team uncovered!
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inspired by the now notorious video of a Gen Z girl ranting about her 9-5 job, I wrote about how no one wants their lives to revolve around work anymore, for
@VICE
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HOLY SHIT. get ready for this release on 3rd september because it’s gonna hit like a train
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cackling in front of his graffiti queen, send them all to the guillotine
If I was a minister in a government which had presided over the worst coronavirus death rate on earth, I simply would not go on television and laugh manically
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a woman just came to our door who lived in this house as a child, back when it was one house not four flats. said her parents bought it for £1000 in 1953. just checked, and thats the equivalent of £35,000 today. kill me
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I wrote about whether the influencer era is really over, “de-influencing”, and why Kim Kardashian wants to be seen having cheeky pints, for
@Independent
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paul mccartney photographed by juergen teller for w magazine
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I held off the 🤠 personal announcement 🤠 for a while but I have officially gone fully freelance!
I write about all things arts + culture, and would also love to take on more editing / copywriting gigs, so beep me @ eloisehendy
@hotmail
.co.uk if you wanna reach me xx
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right so who’s going to write the piece pitting rachel cusk’s norfolk home against olivia laing’s barbican flat
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I wrote about ice-cream-date-gate, and how dating app screenshot culture has got out of control, for
@Independent
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