journalist & writer
By Sara Valle-MartÃnez Being a fan is hard. As Caitlin Moran puts it in her book, How To Be Famous, there’s something incredibly intimate about consuming someone else’s art. And the connection is even stronger when you’re a teenager exposed to any kind of stimuli. It’s especially hard if you’re a girl. Inevitably, being a teenager means feeling …
By Sara Valle-MartÃnez Green Day Greeen Day's Dookie marked a shift in many teenagers' lives years after it was released. But it was the band's American Idiot that made them accessible to teens with smeared eyeliner and Converse shoes. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ee_uujKuJMI It doesn't matter if you were alive or not when Basket Case was released, it …
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By Sara Valle-MartÃnez (top image courtesy of Deva Fernández) Back in the beginning of 2010, people moved from MySpace to Tumblr, a social media platform in the form of a blog that allowed users to post and reblog photos and texts of all kinds. With the death of MySpace, emo kids were left with nowhere to showcase their music …
By Sara Valle A couple of self-employed artists who were facing financial ruin because of the pandemic are planning to expand. Lianne and Jean Le Roux, owners of Good Fortune Studio in 123 King’s Cross Road, are hoping to move to Blackfriars by 2022. They opened their business after working in the permanent make-up and …
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By Sara Valle A senior foreign correspondent for ABC News highlights the lack of diversity in British journalism. Ian Pannell, who prior to joining ABC worked for BBC for over twenty years, said: “There’s been a lot about diversity in the media, which is a huge issue about race, and about sex and sexuality, who’s actually …
By Sara Valle. Main illustration by Miguel Arévalo I was scrolling through a mattress company’s website this week and it made me feel quite lonely. You may ask yourself why. Well, truth is that I’m single and this company was clearly targeting couples. “The roll-over effect doesn’t happen with our range of organic mattresses. You …
🇪🇸 Nunca me ha gustado seguir las normas y no digo esto como si fuese una rebelde. De hecho, cuando era una niña, e incluso una adolescente, era bastante comedida. HacÃa trastadas, obviamente, pero mi madre podÃa irse a dormir tranquila sabiendo que, aunque llegase tarde, no me iba a meter en problemas. O eso …
🇪🇸 Esta es mi primera entrada. QuerÃa escribir algo para impresionar, pero supongo que entonces será presuntuoso, como si cuando conocieses a alguien por primera vez se hubiese pasado media hora delante del espejo pensando en lo que te dirá. No sé, siempre he pensado que es mejor improvisar. Cuando estudié FilologÃa Inglesa y Literatura …
Sara Valle 