Cover Photo: Cate Blanchett as Lou in Ocean's 8, next to Harry Styles in a dress and blazer.
Photographs via Warner Bros. Pictures and Vogue

My Body Only Feels Right When It Isn’t My Own

I want to inhabit a form that doesn’t define me; I want to inhabit a form in a way that lets me define it.

Bend It Like BeckhamBend It Like Beckham

being

Embodyingembodiment



Who Was That Man? A Present for Mr. Oscar WildeIn the Dream House

Stone Butch Blues

Freaky FridayBend It Like Beckham

Ocean’s 8Ocean’s 8Ocean’s 8


Ocean’s 8Christine and the Queens

Little WomenOcean’s 8The Argonauts



Michael Elias is a writer of prose, poetry, essays, plays, and anything in-between. You can find them published in Homologylit, Gold Flake Paint, Jewish News Detroit, The Niche, Harana Poetry, Pass The Mic, and elsewhere. They are currently studying comparative literature, history, and arts at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.