Nia in Two Acts
A year after her murder, reflecting on Nia Wilson reveals the ways black girls struggle against erasure while also reveling in opacity
The Passion of Private Manning
...a gender counselor and, according to the chatlogs with the informant who turned him in, he had tried cross-dressing on his last trip home to the States. Therefore, the New...
Can't Wait Forever
...and said they were sorry. They tried to justify what they did. They gave me cold water. They asked me if I wanted food. But this is just one example,...
Beauty Blogosphere 10.12.12
...Dunham tried on the tap pants trend, the world stopped, and her response to her critics is nothing short of fantastic. "I don’t think a girl with tiny thighs would...
Footnote Fairy Tale
...by our determination and our strength. They tried to crush us over and over again, but we wouldn’t be crushed.” He runs through the crimes of the Stalinist era, which...
This Week in Art Crime
...Mr Shannon told the police after his arrest he committed the thoughtless act of vandalism in an attempt to ‘get back at the state’ however while in court he tried...
Dances With Anarchists
...Goldman’s father beat her with a whip. She battled with authority at the school, too, denied a character reference needed to continue her education. One teacher’s report called the twelve-year-old...
The Hair Back There
...hard you tried, nothing could de-kink a person’s kitchen.” The kitchen meant resistance. The kitchen saw the options available to make it "tame," and it refused them. It would be...
Simulacra Descending a Staircase
...a vase of roses, by his side.) Cardboard Khomeini is descended to the tune of a musical procession of trumpets. (Khomeini did after all eventually legalize music). The officers salute...
Nightspawn
...for the eerie quality of his urban nocturnes, but as a man and a photographer he preferred the warmth of seedy music halls and the company of prostitutes. Now imagine...
This Week in Art Crime
...went to these artificial beaches and enjoyed the feeling of being on holidays. I wondered why people were so easily manipulated, as if sand, drinks, music, and a tub of...
Crushed…
Crushing lays bare the potential of boundless desire, enabling us to embrace brutal vulnerabilities that are often subordinated to everyday expediency
Private Life Drama
...of late-night dancing, where to “some insane European music that contained centrifugal forces… almost every man present asked [Moscow] to dance, finding in her something that had been lost in...
Too Foreign
...in her afterword: “when to prioritize the music and when the meaning.” Lispector’s Portuguese is, we are told by both translators, a sonorous web of repetitions, intent more on establishing...
Fuck You, Here's a Rainbow
...And other essays about music. Click here or on the image for your free download!...
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Hot Mess
...so coy. Open your ears to their music. Contemporary hip-hop and pop have no time for plausible deniability. Rappers like their status symbols delivered straight-up. There’s no irony or distancing...