“Neither the anti- nor the pro-natalist tradition has much to offer those of us interested in improving the lives of the already living.”
— g a b y
thedriftmag.com/an-unholy-alli…

“who do we rot back to? steel
aluminum stare, ants crawling
the iced unblinking. the radio’s playing
a song about getting undressed.”
— thee black sylvia plath
thedriftmag.com/carrion

thinking abt gender & divinity & desire in The Drift 💌

“Online, queerness is often no more than a word, one that does little to change our ever-more-isolating circumstances.”
— P.E. Moskowitz
thedriftmag.com/a-different-me…

“The god is changing the bandages
around their torso. The god is wearing noise-canceling
headphones trying to drown out the devotees.”
— topaz winters 🏹
thedriftmag.com/idol/

“The closet is often imagined as a place where a young person hides the truth of who they are from the world. But often it is the world which is hidden from them.”
— Karim Kazemi
thedriftmag.com/distress-signa…

This latest from Robert Wood Lynn in The Drift is a great example of why he is quickly becoming one of my favorite contemporary poets.

this turn of phrase at the end, woah

Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk “is perfectly in line with a career built on promoting elite interests under the guise of biographical neutrality and insipid humanism.”
— oscar schwartz
thedriftmag.com/a-bullshit-gen…

“Perhaps partly because of the fear of turning women into baby factories, programs that offer payments to new or expecting parents tend to frame the cash not as a salary but as a social intervention.”
— S.C. Cornell
thedriftmag.com/great-personal…

“I could hold the bottle to your forehead and you’d do the bit / where you’d pretend I’d woken you from the terrible dream / that all this was going away. Maybe already had.”
— Robert Wood Lynn
thedriftmag.com/you-made-a-lis…

“You used to say you worked the way / mountains do, turned bluer the further you got from me / until you disappeared completely.'
— Robert Wood Lynn
thedriftmag.com/an-apology/

'Deep down, here’s what we already know: this is not just a war...'

If you missed this breathtaking essay by Nancy Ko when it came out back on 10/25/23, take the time to read it now.

6 months in — 75 years in — we are still here.

Robby Burchit on Tirzah
thedriftmag.com/mention/spring…

On Sondheim and Buñuel, by Saffron Maeve
thedriftmag.com/mention/spring…

CIA ties, cocaine abuse, and hypnotic results — read Mentions from Lev Mamuya, Robby Burchit, and Saffron Maeve.
thedriftmag.com/mention/spring…

❤️🔥

thedriftmag.com/an-old-story/

“If Jane Austen’s set could take a code of hypergamy as second nature, women today are instead taught to want something very different: solitary selfhood, exalted friendships, and a romantic life of careful, self-preserving quid pro quos.”
— Noelle Bodick
thedriftmag.com/back-lasch

“If the intertwined fates of Balanchine and Graham tell us anything, it should be that trajectories of dance styles and legacies of choreographers are just as much the products of money and institutional support as of artistic talent.”
— Juliana DeVaan
thedriftmag.com/dance-revoluti…