An orphan whose testicles never dropped is adopted by nuns. He pursues a musical career in Austria and New York but only progresses so far.
Art & Culture
Analog
“Analog is a lyric essay that stems from two of my greatest sources of delight: my non-familial relationships and my mild obsession with recording things, often via photography. Broadly, it’s a meditation on how to cherish moments and people that bring me joy when everything is in constant flux.”
Learning To Let Go
The air was light and filled with the smell of wild roses. Two teenage girls with small bindis on their forehead had the same pinkish hue on their cheeks as the roses they were picking. The cinematographer went closer to take a close-up shot of their faces. It...
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.
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.
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.
Boy, Descending
N.H. Van Der Haar wrote this work because he was deeply interested in their Gay Sauna, how it occupies a space in pre-legality homosexual life and how delicate its position can feel in the wider culture of Pride and Melbourne culture.
Jabberwock
A poem exploring the undertones of horror that exist if you really consider what the famous poem “The Jabberwocky,” is about.
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.
What Was Barbie Made For?Â
Where does the film, and by extension, the doll, fit into our discussions of feminism, capitalism, and nostalgia?
Yoba
Growing up as a queer Salvadoran in Los Angeles, Cruz portrays his memories of childhood in El Salvador and his experiences coming to the US at the age of five.
Why Do Movie Audiences Love Suicide Bombing?
There’s something strange about the way Hollywood celebrates explosive martyrdom.
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.
Rainfall
A short fictional piece in which two people debate about whether a painting of the real world is of any merit or significance.
A Look at “Untitled Gamer Play”
Our Editors interview Jason Wang and Sally Chen, a writer artist team responsible for the production of “Untitled Gamer Play”
Wasp Hour
A dejected child becomes distracted from their detached relationship with their mother by The Wasp—a grand, frightening, uniquely exhilarating onset in the child’s life.
New Landscapes
The intentions of a painter and an environmentalist are pretty similar. Both aim to preserve the landscapes they love.
Queen Of The Pulps
Pulp fiction magazines have always teetered between the line of low and high art, and as such are considered fairly niche when it comes to art historical scholarship.