Welcome to Lippy

I think I can confidently say that the first thing I do every morning is check my phone. I scan for Snapchat notifications that I'll never respond to, skim through Outlook to see if my lecture has been cancelled, and space out as I look through Instagram stories of people I met once and never spoke to again. After that, the next thing I do is check the news. Reading the news is something I think everyone should do. But if someone right now told me they didn't want to listen t

I stand before you, farmers kin, my mother’s green thumbed girl. asking only, for a gentle kiss   to cheek. I’d fly to you– by wing or wind, simply for a glimpse.   I have nothing to offer but the dirt bedded under overgrown nails. And a vulgar honesty. Words by Bea Butterworth, she/they

Weaving is maths. The women who have weaved throughout history paved the way for the computers we know today. Weaving has always worked on the basis of zeros and ones - either the weft (horizontal) thread goes over the warp (vertical) threads or under it. That, at its core, is all that a computer is: a series of zeros and ones. The loom was first to use punch cards - Joseph Marie Jacquard mechanised the loom by designing patterns on squared paper and punching out the plain sq

I’ve been a big fan of Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground for a long time, and stumbled across a post about Lou Reed’s relationship with Rachel Humphreys when I was looking into the inspiration for the album Coney Island Baby. Ever since I discovered Humphreys, and became a little bit obsessed with her, I’ve been listening to a lot of Lou Reed’s music from a different perspective with her in my mind.   Lou Reed is likely best known for being in The Velvet Underground, the ba