AXE PULSE

AXE PULSE, BLOOD, POLITICS

Teenage Dreams and Political Nightmares: An Interview with Charlie Jeffries
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AXE PULSE, BLOOD, SEXUALITY

Holy Rebirth of a Youthful Pilgrim
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ART & MULTIMEDIA, AXE PULSE, EXTRA+TERRESTRIAL, MUSIC, REVIEWS, SPIRITUALITY

In Spirit of The Adolescent: D’orjay The Singing Shaman On Spiritual Reintegration & Aid.
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ART & MULTIMEDIA, AXE PULSE, RANTING

Site of Desire
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ART & MULTIMEDIA, AXE PULSE, BLOOD, SEXUALITY

The 5 Ws of Having a Threesome
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AXE PULSE, DIARY, QUEER LIFE, SWEAT, TEARS

Commit to the Bit!
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ART & MULTIMEDIA, AXE PULSE, DIARY, LYMPH, QUEER LIFE, SWEAT, TEARS, TRIVIALITIES

AXE PULSE – THE PHOTOS
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AXE PULSE, BLOOD, RANTING

QTGRL.Me Girlonline At The End of An Era
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AXE PULSE, BLOOD

AXE PULSE
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Here is an image of Yesim sitting in front of a piano looking cool.

Ping Pong, Hayat, & the art of the staying alive: talking to Yeşim Duman

October 27, 2024 Recently I had the chance to sit down with COVEN friend Yeşim Duman to have a coffee in the sunlight to talk about the current iteration of…

A collage of barrier methods for sex (gloves, a condom, a dental dam, with 90s US headlines over top, which urge teenagers not to have sex or lament the teen birth rate. The artist's teen doodles are visible in the background.

Teenage Dreams and Political Nightmares: An Interview with Charlie Jeffries

Ki Niehaus of COVEN Berlin interviews historian Charlie Jeffries about her 2022 book “Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars”.

Watercolor of two trans bodies floating together in water. One pink being with long hair floating butt to the sun over a purple sting ray. One being light lemon green lavender and pink with furry legs on their back with seaweed floating between their crotch and being touched on their stomach by a tentacle. The water is dark blue and grey and filled with seaweed.

Holy Rebirth of a Youthful Pilgrim

We kiss and slowly undress, as we impatiently caress and taste each other’s bodies like two starved pilgrims at the end of their long walking day. We are both sweating a lot. Our bodies are hot with desire. I feel like a scallop floating in the ocean, soaked in the holy water of desire and touch.

This image features D'orjay as a baby. They wear a cowboy hats and dungarees.

In Spirit of The Adolescent: D’orjay The Singing Shaman On Spiritual Reintegration & Aid.

It was in 2020 when D’orjay, debuting Shit My Shaman Says: Volume I, a work Axe Pulse agnate in its anti-linear subversiveness, first came upon my newsfeed.

This looks like a photo that’s been edited to appear almost drawn. Featured is a group of people waiting at some kind of bus stop-shelter. The photo is shot from above, like from a drone or the window of an apartment overlooking the stop. Of the people there, you can clearly make out a man talking to two women.

Site of Desire

Emotional as in congratulations, mental illness runs in the family. Also, coronary heart disease.

An image of two outlines of faces above a torso. There are arrows indicating movement and their mouths are open.

The 5 Ws of Having a Threesome

When considering having a threesome, there are five very important questions you should ask yourself to have the hottest and most fun experience possible for all parties involved.

Digital collage created with a still of Andy Samberg looking like a hunk from the 2007 movie Hot Rod. Image by Flip Zang.

Commit to the Bit!

In the first episode of The Lonely Island (2001), Ardy, played by twenty-three year old Andy Samberg, all lips and shaggy curls, stars in a goofy early-90’s-hip-hop-MTV-style interlude. From the twin-sized bottom bunk on my ten-centimeter iPod screen, I studied this scene with adolescent gravitas.

A landscape photo of the whole room where our installation is. The view here is from someone at the end of the room, opposite from the entrance. Here we see a lilac-colored room with like-colored fur trim on the walls. In the room is a large changing room bench that is painted green and covered with like-colored fur. We see an old 90s era thick television, scattered papers and clothing on and around the bench.

AXE PULSE – THE PHOTOS

As part of the large group exhibition titled How (Not) to Fit In – Metaphern der Adoleszenz at Villa Merkel, Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, in Esslingen, Germany, which ran from May 8 – July 17, 2022, COVEN BERLIN created the installation and environment we called AXE PULSE, eponymously named after our current magazine and curatorial theme (which can be read here).

Tumblr user with false horns and a text collage displaying the words "part boy part god" over the demigender flag

QTGRL.Me Girlonline At The End of An Era

The internet in the 2010’s was a very special time and place to come of age as a trans woman. It was right at the end of old systems of categorization and identification, as well as the old internet.

AXE PULSE

Adolescence is nothing if not an endless series of paradoxes. As a teenager you spend your days with packs of people, and yet often feel utterly isolated. You’re carving your own identity, yet are indelibly shaped by the influences around you. It’s excruciating, and magical, and formative, with highs and lows that are as devastating as they are delirious.