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Guest 004: Kiara Braum
Kiara Braum, a poet, writer, and artist from Johannesburg, explores memory, the mundane, and the magical through her work. Blending auto-fiction and poetry, she crafts raw, introspective narratives that blur the line between reality and imagination.
One day, she hopes to discover what exactly it all means.
Kiara selects Movies to: Match Your Existential Crisis, a list of films that unravel, reflect, and embrace the chaos of being.
Read her latest piece, Fight with your boyfriend and clean up the vomit, and subscribe to her Substack, The Mountain Allows, for more of her writing.
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Mar 23, 2025
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*i stole this rec*
This film is beautiful, terrifying, and depicts (some of) my exact emotions about the rain in LA rn.
I got the rec from the oh so wonderful Julia Pott and her substack Slow Motion Multitasking where she takes deep dives, shares her art, and ultimately tries to help others and her self feel (even if ever so slightly) creative again. This was the first substack I ever subscribed to and I have learned and been exposed to so many wonderful things because of it.
I want to be her friend so bad.
Feb 5, 2024
My beloved friend and creative partner of many years and the best writer I know… her first post Trauma Queens is a look at emotional exhibitionism and oversharing online. I highly recommend reading it and following her to see what she comes out with next!!
Apr 27, 2024
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Then read my inaugural Substack post on emotional exhibitionism, where I wrote about a troubling and very normalized trend I noticed during my bleak year as a TikTok user. 🛌 💌
Apr 19, 2024
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INTRODUCING “GUSHER’S LETTERBOXD LIST SERIES*” !!
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screenwriting credit, 'REFILL, 2024'.
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Moon Mokgoro, a writer and physics and mathematics student based in Johannesburg, South Africa, is the founder of the Protest Poster Project, a non-profit organization focused on fighting against gender-based violence and building a library/archive of activist, anarchist, and feminist literature.
She has written for the Are.na 2023 Annual, Byline Mag, Goethe-Institut, and more, as well as occasionally writing on her Substack.
Moon selects The Virgin Suicides (1999), Trainspotting (1996), The Color of Pomegranates (1969), and more for her list, Movies That Feel Like Novels.
Explore Moon’s work at Protest Poster Project, read her latest piece in Byline Mag, and follow her writing on Substack.
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