Five queer joys in a world at war...

Siya Khumalo offers up five irresistible sensory joys - that run the queer gamut from the primal urge of a burger to Katy Perry to the Magi's perfumed gifts.

The news cycle thrives on our addiction to stress and anxiety. Every day, we’re fed a drip of dysfunction — executive orders, tariffs, protest crackdowns, collapsing states. But even war must stop for lunch, and even in war pairs (or trios, or quartets) of soldiers will find the most impossible places to make out. One of the simplest antidotes to stress…