Warm Takes

Linked in to left behind

Kezia Laurencia

The pressure to have a personal brand before you have a career is real. On LinkedIn, being young and still figuring it out can feel like a public failure.

Warm Takes

The age of overlapping careers: Yes, side jobs are now necessary to survive

Tia Monica Sihotang

One full-time job, two freelance gigs and the gnawing feeling that it still might not be enough. This is what stability looks like now.

Weekend Five

Forget beaches: Here are 5 smart books for your summer reading list

Felix Martua

Whether you’re craving comfort, perspective or escape, these five books can accompany you over the slower rhythm of summer.

Currently Obsessed

There's a word for what happens to you when you become a mother

Nindya Soraya Dharma

Lucy Jones's Matrescence gave me the language I didn't know I needed and an argument I didn't know I was ready to make

Love, Etc.

Dating, according to the algorithm

Dedari Arane Wibowo

Modern dating rules nobody taught us are now running our love lives. How did we get here?

Currently Obsessed

'The Drama' will make you squirm. Watch it anyway.

Aqraa Sagir

The dark comedy makes you laugh just as much as it makes you wince.

Health And Wellness

Perimenopause is everything everywhere all at once. And then some.

Hera Diani

For decades, the coping mechanisms held. Then perimenopause arrived and stripped them away. What came next was a diagnosis that reframed everything.

Love, Etc.

‘Swipe Therapy’: On dating, heartbreak and healing in the digital age

Sheena Suparman

Mira Sumanti's Swipe Therapy is part memoir, part survival guide for anyone who has ever loved messily and learned slowly.

Love, Etc.

Can we please stop getting into situationships?

Dedari Arane Wibowo

Why do we hold on to something that was never quite there?

Family Matters

Everyone gets a holiday ... except mothers?

Syifa Maulida

The trip was supposed to be a break for everyone in my extended family. So why was my mother-in-law up in the wee hours?

Health And Wellness

She’s not fine: What years of dismissing women’s pain cost

Sheena Suparman

For 15 years, everyone told me the pain I felt every month was normal. Turns out, it wasn’t.

Currently Obsessed

Two girls, two worlds, but one message from Indonesian cinema

Aqraa Sagir

One grew up in 1960s Surabaya, the other was born on Mars; both have something to teach us about facing an uncertain world with open arms.

Weekend Five

5 shows not from Hollywood that you can relate to

Reza Mardian

From Seoul to Mumbai, these five Asian titles capture everyday emotions that feel closer to home than most Hollywood shows.

Currently Obsessed

‘Enough’: The greenest choice in a world of more

Marlistya Citraningrum

I've spent years studying the climate crisis. It took my mother's permanent marker on a 25-year-old fridge to show me what I was missing.

Warm Takes

When a gift is never just a gift

Michelle Anindya

We exchange gifts thinking it's a showcase of care. But somewhere between the ribbon and the Instagram story, it can become a form of debt.

Warm Takes

Performing hunger: Notes from behind the café curtain

Josa Lukman

Is restraint without intent inherently noble in the eyes of the divine, or are we just hungry for the optics?

Warm Takes

Sorry for eating: The month of restraint and our urge to control

Lutfiya Tussifah

Ramadan asks us to practice restraint. But somewhere along the way, we started asking everyone else to practice it too.

The Look

Beyond performative: Is he a threat or just a man with a mirror?

Ainur Kiki

Self-expression is about breaking boundaries. Maybe judge him by his character, not his closet.

Warm Takes

A pick-me girl: The woman who wasn’t like other girls

Siti Syafania Kose

How do you learn to pick yourself when you’ve spent your whole life performing for someone else’s approval?

Warm Takes

The hidden burnout behind self-care

Haekal Husain

From early morning routines to endless wellness trends, the pressure to recover properly may be exhausting us even more.