“It’s 2016. I’m a contemporary artist and have been living off of Medicaid, food stamps, and $20k annually since graduating from art school five years ago.”
The Baffler
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Memento Mori
“Surveillance is just one aspect of how a creepy gimmick has come to contend with eternity.”
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Care, Out of the Closet
“LGBTQ elders face discrimination in underfunded nursing homes.”
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Bringing up the Bodies
“What they would be doing at top speed was exhuming human remains.”
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Doomsday Diaries
“The very notion of Palestinian civilians vanishes. This is the first kind of death.”
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