Safety pins festooned in a decorative cluster act as an aura that’s been upset. The beauty parlor and the 1950s-era trope function as a conjoined context for new dimensions into selfhood and ego swaddling. The midpoint of the 20th century marked the century-long actualization of a need for social presentiment and private glorification. I matter most in this realm of futurist design. And the only thing that anyone sees is an aesthetic sheen. ~ Brian Alessandro, Editor-in-Chief
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"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."
~ James Baldwin
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Fiction, Poetry, Essays, Drama
“As an Act of Protest” has never been more urgent than now.
The Bulldog, the Cyclone, the Ocelot, and Tom. With dignity and mettle for all.
Centuries of cruelty demand centuries of reparation.
Grace is a dance in the face of adversity, a pirouette across a landscape of bigotry.
A sublime horror, a beautiful exploitation—sung to mellifluous perfection.
Dismantled binaries, reclaimed thoughts, decolonized language.
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