“Humans are besotted with color and we always have been. We love it so much we will breathe it, eat it, drink it, and look at it until our eyes roll back in our heads. We will paint with it, paint the world with it, paint ourselves with it. We will go to the ends […]
“Give me the complicated, the missed connections, the big gestures, the bittersweet endings. Give me the struggle, because it’s the struggle that makes it love.” Yes, today is that day. Dreadful for some of us, but delightful for others. (Especially all the excited school-age kids exchanging “Be My Valentine” messages—which, these days, are no longer […]
In the wide, quiet spaces of BLM land, I heard echoes of a past we’ve buried—and a future we still might save.
Eating disorders never truly go away. They just go quiet. For a while.
“The drag star brought the form mainstream, and made an empire out of queer expression. Now he fears ‘the absolute worst.'”
Featuring stories from Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Audrey Ash, Kyung Lah, Anna-Maja Rappard, Casey Tolan, Lou Robinson, and Byron Manley; Lindsey Liles; David Gauvey Herbert; Laura Trethewey; and Abe Beame.
Featuring stories from Paul Kix, Matthieu Aikins, Matt Alt, Elisa Gabbert, and Sophie Elmhirst.
“A chance encounter at N.Y. playground leaves a father asking, ‘What is justice now?’”
A dispatch from the real Twin Peaks, where fans of the director flocked after his death.
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