Must the artist struggle in order to create works that move the culture? Writer Ricky Tucker explores this question with Charly Dominguez, NYC artist and Ballroom community organizer.
The film director’s remarks on the guiding principles used to create recent films by Russian art collective Chto Delat.
The solidarity and affection of independent publishing networks As a child, I remember desperately wanting a journal with a magnetic seal like my friends had at the time. Our family’s
The latest video from Travesti Biológica affirms the need for self-respect, self-care, and empowerment.
How can a piece of writing build trust across continents, cultures, and contexts? We find out in these parallel reflections between two writers.
Track 8 from Travesti Biológica features vocals from multidisciplinary artist Ivy Monteiro.
With enTR4V4, Mavi takes us on a voyeuristic tour of various bedrooms to an insistent four-on-the-(boudoir)-floor rhythm.
With spacey synths and a disco dance beat, “Treasure in My Mouth” is an intimate portrait of self-care and resistance.
The fifth video from the album Travesti Biológica celebrates the cultural turn when we claim terms that once were used to oppress.
Like the act of pruning a plant, we hurt to trigger growth. In the scarring processes we heal our wounds of memory, of thought, of soul.
In part two, the purposes and ambitions of queer literature change in the ‘80s with the rise of AIDS and a punishing, homophobic backlash. These cultural conditions birthed a new political awareness—one that linked queer communities to other historically marginalized and oppressed people.
An insight into America’s “culture wars” using the example of Dave Chappelle to highlight the extant and emerging fault lines of artistic freedom of expression and censorship.
