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Commodifying Oppression: The Co-option of Resistance Aesthetic

There has become a market, driven by social media aesthetics, for the radical slogan, a marketing for leftist politics, and therefore, a market for continued oppression. Though graphics elevate and increase the share-ability of messaging, this practice has translated into consumer goods with trendy, relevant, and co-optive messaging.

An illustrated image of shooting stars, with a band of lighter color around the edge. The image is in blues and purples.

Runaway

A new poem by Samantha Bohatsch.

An image of 5 stylized flames on a red glitter background. The flames are next to one another in the middle of the frame, and are in a left to right gradient from black to light blue.

Five Stages of Heat

While the five stages of grief can be a useful tool for understanding your emotions after loss, the five stages of heat is a useful companion BEFORE making a big change, because it can help you understand why you feel equal parts hot and bothered.

A picture of Clay AD's book, Metabolize if Able, on a background of blue-lit white pills. The book cover is light blue with dark blue outlines of two faces looking at one another.

Sickos Against Iatro-Capitalism

Sophie Lewis reviews Clay AD’s debut novel, Metabolize, If Able.

A fisheye, solarized appearance image of a person with a bob haircut and a staff blocking a black shape. The image is blue, pink, red, black, and white.

gestating vampires: four poems

The following selection of poems was written between March and June 2020, kindled by my personal experience with unwanted gestation during quarantine.

A three panel image of a window. The left and right panels feature a white edge of a window with a black outside with eyes looking back at the viewer, while the middle panel has a yellow sun cut off at the middle. This image is a crop of the larger image by Candice Purwin, below.

French Cinema and Me: A Tale of Two Summers

I used to live for summer. The other seasons formed one long purgatory to be endured in anticipation of the moment when I could finally flourish under the blazing sun of foreign lands.

An image of four panels from a scene in the film Notting Hill, with Julia Roberts saying, I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her. The panels are desaturated, and a repeated motif of an outline of a red eye and iris, with a flame-shaped pupil in red.

Implies, Presupposes, Begets

Sex scares me because it requires me to trust that someone can treat me with respect, despite the ways society has robbed me of my self-regard.

An image of Yoongi and Jimin from BTS, with a moon and flecks of light taken from the Ryder Waite tarot deck in yellow superimposed over the top of the image.

a/b/o verse—cancer

A/B/O verse is a parody of the white, nuclear family. In A/B/O verse, the world is made up of alphas, betas, and omegas. In addition to your primary gender…

A black and white image of two people pressing their feet together with their lower legs bent to the right and left sides of the frame. They are on a hardwood floor.

Sacha Vega – A Visual Interview

Sacha Vega is an American artist creating at the intersection of photography, installation art, and writing, based in the Greater New York area. Through her practice, she “advises the viewer…

An image of Megan Fox from Jennifer's Body projected on a white curtain, with flames across the bottom of the screen and "come home, steamy love" in yellow text across the bottom.

Fiery Swallowed Rage

I’m laying down in a fetal position, knocked out by pain. Saliva drips from my mouth and I’m on the verge of passing out. I’ve taken a mix of random painkillers and they’re finally hitting. The pain stops; I have a mini orgasm.