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Underrepresented Creatives
At this time, we’d like to invite artists and writers who are passionate about anti-fascism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism, and Palestinian support to consider submitting their work to The New Absurdist, and as always we will do our best to elevate these underrepresented voices on our platform
Dissecting Destacarse
Rene Camarillo is an East Los Angeles born and raised creative who produces textiles and handcrafted apparel with themes of immigrant realities, neglected labor, and critique on the social engagement of fast fashion industry practices.
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Dissecting Destacarse
Rene Camarillo is an East Los Angeles born and raised creative who produces textiles and handcrafted apparel with themes of immigrant realities, neglected labor, and critique on the social engagement of fast fashion industry practices.
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Charity Shop Evangelists
This piece interrogates the purpose of faith in giving people a continued sense of purpose in America: a culture of perennial novelty that seeks to discard people when they are unable to find a place in the narrow routine of its population. This essay also opens up a further interrogation of one of the biggest problems facing our culture: how do we resist the urge to dispose of people, as we do our used items? And when people have been disposed of, how do they survive? Robert examines it through the behavior of these charity shop evangelists, while also examining his own relationship to this religious community as a queer man.
The Horse’s Name Was Friday
A creative exploration of understanding oneself through one’s physical body. Take a look into the nature of symbols using personal accounts, family history, and the work of Umberto Eco. It is, above all, a personal confession told through the eyes – or perhaps terrifying mouth – of girlhood.
MAROU
MAROU sits down with one of our editors to discuss mental health, moving to a new city, and how art isn’t just something we do, but who we are. She also talks about the music that has changed her life for the better, and how she’s glad she listened to the signs that kept telling her she was headed down the right path.
Napoleon
A young boy wakes up one day to find that everything he touches turns into Napoleon.
Persian Looney Tunes
Torn between the constraints of old tradition and the radical modernism in a box set of Looney Tunes dvd’s brought to him by a cousin visiting from Miami, Amir reconciles the tension of his background within intransigent, punk art.
Deep Dive
How did I end up sitting across from an ostrich who asks too many questions? It’s Friday Funday!
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Latest Poetry
3 Percocet Prescription Poems
As someone completely obsessed with puns, I write my poems using a unique method of homophonic translation which re-sounds existing texts based on each individual letter’s potential to make sound (or to be silent) within different contexts in the English language.
thoughts between the UCAS convention and sleep
A poem organising thoughts from the time I got way too stressed about choosing universities at the Choose-Your-University-Convention, and thus resorted to absurd and slightly self-deprecating humour to cope
little fish
18 feels more like 4 to me.
Jabberwock
A poem exploring the undertones of horror that exist if you really consider what the famous poem “The Jabberwocky,” is about.
Rain
A poem about the rain storm I witnessed in April: and how it made me remember the autumn rain in despair.
Pair of Lungs, The Policeman, Revise
Three poems, three characters, and the impact of their decisions.
Wave Good-bye to the Firemen
Trains, Buses, Trucks, all very exciting
when you’re a toddler
Wakix®
And haven’t we all suffered
from Excessive Daytime Sleepiness?
what waits in the basement
But who’s to keep a child from shutting the door…
Vaxed Out
I saw the best vaccines of my generation destroyed by madness.
In Spring
“In Spring” is a shahai. Shahai is a less familiar term than haiga – the traditional pairing of a haiku or senryu with a picture, which dates back to the times of early Japanese prints. Shahai is a haiga where the picture is a photographic image.
Star Juice
I like my writing to feel simultaneously cryptic and clear. You may not know exactly what I’m talking about but you know the emotions. You know how it feels.
a collection
I’ve been compiling many of my poems from old notebooks to create a book of life. Like a memoir but in poems. These are a few of the recent ones.
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The Collection
Learning To Let Go
The air was light and filled...
5 Palestinian Films to Watch
Supporting Palestinian creatives and content about culture, creativity, and personal and political experiences is an important way to elevate their voices and share their stories.
Something Stinks with Dove’s New #freethepits Campaign
For a #freethepits ad campaign that claims to be about not judging armpits, there’s not a single bushy armpit in the bunch.
Kipo: Biraciality and Blackness
A look at how Kipo functions as a multiracial, Black and Asian character in Netflix Original Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts.
The Menu: Beautiful Presentation… But Lacks Substance
“Let them eat McDonalds” says director, Mark Mylod, with one of Searchlight Picture’s newest star-studded original films, The Menu.
Breaking The English Haiku Beyond Syllables
Haikus can be so much more meaningful when they are unbound from their syllabic structure
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