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‘Two Sisters’: One Year After the Las Vegas Shooting

A young girl and her sister are sitting side-by-side in a Parisian outdoor scene, framed by swirling greens and icy blues. Lush trees tower over a shimmering lake in the distance, setting the two against a pastel backdrop. The older girl dons a cherry-wine colored bonnet and keeps her equally crimson lips pursed in a Mona Lisa half-smile, eyes transfixed on something outside our view. Her young sister clings close beside her....
ESSAYSVISUAL ART

In Conversation with Animator Rachel Headlam

We decide to meet at a bustling juice shop. The kind that mentions nature in its mission and manages to incorporate hemp milk and turmeric into all of its menu items. “I’m wearing a white pinstriped shirt, a red Supreme headband, and sporting an afro puff today,” texts 18 year-old character animator, Rachel Headlam. ...
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Fiber Artist Aubrey Longley-Cook & the Queer Gaze

In the backyard of a Hollywood bungalow sits a garage that’s been converted into a studio. Inside, a revised definition of queer art is tested by way of needle and thread. Beside the workstation sits a vintage triple-cassette boombox that plays mixtapes containing everything from Bat for Lashes to Enya to Animal Collective. Thoughtfully laid out along the opposite side of the raised rectangular table is a makeup wipe bearing the remnants of a drag queen’s face – pink, glitter lipstick and shimmering bronzer – next to a single, claw-like rhinestone-studded press-on nail. Both are love tokens once given to Los Angeles artist Aubrey Longley-Cook courtesy of two Atlanta drag queens, Brigitte Bidet and Biqtch Puddin’, both of whom have made this house their transient home over the past month....
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