'A seemingly paradoxical duality is also occurring within the objects, which become animated through their display; each piece is able to speak for itself...'

Read 'Individual Collectivity: Scratching at the Moon at ICA Los Angeles' by Dylan Kaposi

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'The works are at once looking forwards and backwards in time, and each artist is coupling their introspection with a transnational consciousness.'

Read 'Individual Collectivity: Scratching at the Moon at ICA Los Angeles' by Dylan Kaposi

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'At what point did a weird unsettled feeling shift to out-and-out terror? When did their innocent hike during a day off school become a failed sprint for survival?'

Read 'The Perils of Girlhood' by Melissa Fraterrigo

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'I scooped cereal into my mouth and chewed harder as if the great churning inside my mouth could fix me forever in our sun-bleached kitchen.'

Read 'The Perils of Girlhood' by Melissa Fraterrigo

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'I can tell by your Chapel
that you were given too much
emotional leniency at young,
or perhaps you were left...'

Read 'sitting in the Sistine Chapel very miserable and very sexy' by Wolf Indigo Baker

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'I’m myself
sitting in the Sistine Chapel
very miserable and
very sexy

O Michelangelo
your legacy
is very gay'

Read 'sitting in the Sistine Chapel very miserable and very sexy' by Wolf Indigo Baker

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'Micro leaks the minutest trace of its own guest virus through'

Read 'Supply Chain Plaything' by Petra Kuppers

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'Microbe plays hopscotch on metal on plastic on leather on the rich juicy arm...'

Read 'Supply Chain Plaything' by Petra Kuppers

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'And is not uncertainty another term for queerness? In the dark, clutching a familiar body part from a different perspective.'

Read 'The Infinite is Everywhere and Cheap' by
Rivka Clifton

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'I confess to a friend that I’m not delusional, that I know I look like a werewolf, gesturing to my facial hair, my chest hair sprouting over my collar.'

Read 'The Infinite is Everywhere and Cheap' by Rivka Clifton

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'Love brings out the best and the worst in people, the selfless and the selfish, and sometimes it’s hard to know which is which.'

Jennifer Wortman in conversation w/ Kosiso Ugwueze

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'Some of us try to fill the spiritual void by deifying other people. And then we resent them when they’re not the god we want them to be.'

Jennifer Wortman in conversation w/ Kosiso Ugwueze

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'I’M IN RUSSIA, SURE, BABY. YOU CAN CALL ME BORIS IF IT HELPS, BUT I’M EVERYWHERE. I’M IN YOUR WALLS. I’M IN THE WHITE HOUSE. I’M ON YOUR PLATE. WHERE LIFE GOES, I FOLLOW.'

Read 'We Love Because HE Loved Us First' by Ava Guihama Olson

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'The whole thing was a sort of pathetic, half-hearted procedure, where she didn’t really mind not being pregnant but also wanted to know what they’d pulled out of her...'

Read 'We Love Because HE Loved Us First' by Ava Guihama Olson

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'The night my mother called and begged me
to come home, you locked the doors and reminded me
you have no home to go back to.'

Read 'The first time I pried a blade from your fist I told myself never again' by theo

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'I never could
stop dreaming of leaving you. So many ways
it could have happened, instead of how it did:
on the phone in the psych ward...'

Read 'The first time I pried a blade from your fist I told myself never again' by theo

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'Death is one of many ways for the Earth to remind us: You don’t own me.'

In celebration of our trans siblings, read an excerpt from 'Love the World or Get Killed Trying' by Alvina Chamberland

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'I’m no president. I’m far from that (in)significant. I can die in peace here if I want to.'

In celebration of our trans siblings, read an excerpt from 'Love the World or Get Killed Trying' by Alvina Chamberland

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