Opportune
I’ve been musing about the idea of opportunity. An opportune place. An opportune position. An opportune placement. The chinese description for this is: 天时地利人和. Being at the right place at the right time with the right people. There’s a place to be prepared. To keep pursuing one’s heart, passions and delight. To bravely take a...
YOU ARE LOVE l Holly Gabarek: No Food, Fast Food and Food Coma
Pacing up and down the canned food aisle at the overly crowded supermarket this evening, right hand following my feet scrolling right, then left, then right, then left again trying to find something that would wrench my 6 o’clock heart. My left just dangled giving my forearm the task of a shopping basket hanger...
引き籠もり| Hikikomori
After a long day at work or school, you come home to rest your tired body. You drag yourself up to your room, close the door, and flop onto the bed, ready to give up dinner and just sleep in your work clothes or uniform. Your room is a place of solace for you, an...
YOU ARE LOVE | Somaly Mam & Sex Trafficking
Somaly Mam from Guggenheim Productions on Vimeo. Sex trafficking is a booming business all over the world and goes alarmingly unnoticed by just about everyone. Some organisations are so intimidating that activists have a hard time just getting in contact with the children involved, let alone saving them. It has been estimated that at least...
YOU ARE LOVE | Gay Bashing
Every school day, thousands of young people who identify with being either lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender face harassment, bullying, and even violence for simply being who they are. The documentary film ‘Teach Your Children Well‘ focuses its attention on the challenging issues of homophobia and violence in schools as directed against our LGBT youth....
YOU ARE LOVE | Dark SECRETS
The sophomore installation of You Are Love acknowledges the presence of dark secrets harboured by individuals like you and me. A cold-hearted criminal. A seemingly innocent adolescent. A passionate teacher. Or even a saint-at-heart. Everyone possesses secrets that they do not want to talk about; with some seemingly darker than others. These days, hiding skeletons...
YOU ARE LOVE | Child ABUSE
Presenting our inaugural photo series. In this first installation, we are subtly touching on various aspects of physical and sexual child abuse. Through similar literary and artistry expressions, we will acknowledge the existence of these underwhelmed issues. As victims relate their experiences, ACTUALLYMAG wants to tell them that they are not alone. There are people...
YOU ARE LOVE | Logo REVEAL
As much as we love to proclaim our insatiable passion for fashion, lifestyle and design loudly with ear-deafening capitals; we would also like to partake in raising awareness towards lamentable social issues and to translate airwaves of love to communities undergoing martyrdom – physical abusement, sexual violence, identity struggles, psychological abusement, prejudice, negligence and many...
