FIGLEAF issue #2, 2021 · news · opinions · recipes · stories · reviews · follow us on instagram @hhhsfigleaf EDITORS Editor: Amelia Yoshida Deputy Editors Zeynep Erdogmus and Lily Sarzentich EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Features Editor: Isabelle Baker Chief Sub-Editor: Amber Szucs Extraordinary Writers: Aaryash Bharadwaj; Natasha Dixon-Dowd; Sean Hughes; Isabella Jones; Isabella Lawrie; Fern Pulvirenti; Nina Schafer; Eden Seedsman; Krysta Smith; Quinn Williams ART DEPARTMENT Art Directors: Maxwell Patrick and Emmy Woods Amazing Artists: Paige Diamond; Ryan Kimpton; Jasper Pringle SOCIAL MEDIA TEAM Social Media Manager: Aidan Petersen Meet the Figleaf team Social Media Specialists: Sage Brophy; Sammy Hurworth; Disco Pedersen Cover art by Paige Diamond Contents 5 Features 20 Reviews 28 Comics 30 Stories By Jasper Pringle MAGAZINE Hi there, my name is Amelia Yoshida That’s why I urge you to step out of your and I am the editor of Hunters Hill High comfort zone and try something new. i there, my name is Amelia interests, values and creativity with the School’s studentYoshida newspaper, and I am the the editor Figleaf. schoolWhether community. that be dying your hair a crazy The objectiveof Hunters of the FigleafHill High is toSchool’s create colour or joining the debate team. 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Thecreativity Figleaf iswith a fantastic the school way community. to share your EDITOR'S LETTER 4 MAGAZINE Race In the first week of Term 2, we successfully held our 2021 Cross Country Carnival. Lily Sarzentich was at the finish line and togot some the of the finish winners' thoughts about the big race. My opinion of the race My thoughts on the set up itself... "It's fun, when you of the track... "It was fun!" aren't feeling like you're Will Coleman, winner of dying." Lucas Manefield, the 17+ Boys race winner of the 16-year-old Boys race My advice to future My opinion of the race racers... "Give everything itself... “I enjoyed it!” Cilla a try. If you don't try, then Williams, winner of the you don't know." Mr Law, 13-year-old Girls race participant in the 17+ Boys race The highlight of my day was... "Getting to be the bear-y official Cross Country paw-tographer!" Hunter the HHHS Bear 5 MAGAZINE Unpacking diet culture Nina Schafer shines a spotlight on the dangers of diet culture. Trigger warning: This article contains senstitive information about disordered eating. ince the early 1900s, dieting trend for centuries (who knows why), but it’s has become a normal practise completely absurd to think changing the way throughout the world. Only now, you eat will completely transform you. The people have finally begun to crack most that you get out of a diet is unneeded Sdown on the ridiculous reality of diet culture food guilt and malnourishment. The lies of and its effects on physical and mental health. ‘willpower’ and ‘holding back’ from ‘unsafe’ So just how damaging is it? foods are simply a result of people denying their bodies of what they need. The cycle of 95% of diets fail, and this just goes to show restricting food groups or calories ingested how unrealistic they are. Yet still, humanity leads to a potential cycle of bingeing and forces ‘magic milkshakes’ down their purging, which is when an individual ingests throats and cuts out entire food groups for an abnormally large amount of food in one the sake of figure. Body types have been a 6 MAGAZINE sitting, feels guilty about it, and tries to Completely trying to avoid processed foods expel the effects of the food by either isn’t a healthy idea either though, because forced vomiting or copious exercise. Is this you should be able to enjoy food without supposed to be healthier than just listening feeling guilt. to your body for what it needs when it For many women, the male gaze can needs it? Though avid dieters may avoid be a big factor in their decision to join the truth, calories are really just a way of in on diets. Female fashion trends have measuring energy, and the big stress about been dictated for centuries by how they them was only introduced to make weight will appear to the heteronormative dating loss and vanity companies more money. world, or ‘courting’ back in the day. The market wants us, the consumer, to Magazines and tabloid trash pick out ‘flaws’ feel bad about ourselves so that we buy in celebrities, which form the ideals in their products. youngsters next to the coffee table and Let's talk about different diets. For create unconscious ideals to the eyes of starters, intermittent fasting. This is women everywhere that they are defined fasting for long periods of time during by cellulite and post pregnancy bodies- a the day before eating, supposedly cutting perfectly normal part of life. No matter calories and therefore promoting weight where we tread, diet culture pokes at us. loss. This diet claims to be healthy, but But look at how ‘perfection’ changes in really it’s just restrictive eating in disguise, time. The 1920s, said streamlined and which is a behaviour associated with and petite figures; 1950s praised hourglass, which can lead to anorexia. 2000s wanted muscles; 2010 says curves and if you go as far back as ancient Greece, Next is keto, a high fat, low carb diet. trends scream CURVIER. Ths is why trends This diet is used to treat epilepsy in are essentially ridiculous and should be children, and is now highly popular among completely ignored. As long as your body adults for weight loss, which isn’t what can function like bodies are supposed to, it’s meant to be for. Carbohydrates are the there is no problem. Love yourself and go body’s main source of energy, and without, eat the last biscuit in the pack. individuals may experience constipation, lethargy and muscle cramps. This also By Nina Schafer makes it more difficult to get fibre, which is vital for long term health. Cutting out major food groups never leads to good, and these fad diets really just lead to insecurity surrounding food and body. Sure you shouldn’t overeat processed sugar and saturated fats, but you shouldn’t shun the natural fats and sugars present in complex carbs and plant based foods. 7 MAGAZINE "My big break" Zenep Erdogmus shares how she learned to stop procrastinating and seize the chance to participate in a project with the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA). t the end of 2020, my mother in the drama company, but the audition showed me a picture from the sounded fun, so I figured I would give it a school facebook; an ad for the go. So I did. My two monologues included drama company, a collaborating the phrases ‘lung disease’, ‘is that a gun?’, projectA of both the ArtsUnit and National ‘scam a few rich idiots’ and ‘no, Riley, that Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA). There was is not edible’. That sentence doesn’t add a three part audition, which entailed two much to the article, but it’s important written and filmed monologues and writing to me that you know that. Anyway, I a one-page script. wrote both monologues ahead of time, however, there is a reason I claim the title I wasn’t even sure how interested I was 8 MAGAZINE ‘master procrastinator’, as I completed my with a set and costumes at the location. endorsement sheet and filmed both my There, we even got our own dressing room, monologues, submitting them the day of the with a mirror and lights for each of us! In the deadline. end, we performed 8 shows over the course of 3 days. Our first show, cast interviews and Somehow, I got in.