Mask: The Mommy Issue

We still love you very much Photo: Ronika McClain
Wings Check out our latest editorial photoshoot featuring looks from Hood By AIr, Vintage Versace, Goddess Streetwear, and more.
Trigger Warning In the aftermath of the shooting of 49 latino queers in a nightclub in Florida, Sarah Rupp outlines why she wants a gun.
Write for Us August marks "The Control Issue” – read more on our writer’s page.
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Dan Knows Best by Dan Allegretto

Summer 2016 Trend Predictions

Dan brings you his summer trend forecast which doesn’t matter and you should not even slightly consider reading.

No Brow by Jaime Chu

How to Be Watched

This Month is Lit: Jaime Chu reviews Leopoldine Core’s When We Watched.

How can I show my mother I am different from those god-denying white people I call my friends? How can I pull my mother's kidney stone out with my bare hands? How can I ensure she wakes up with adoring eyes every morning?

Mamita, Aren’t You Tired of Crying?

by Beatrice Loayza

an antifa track for our generation Check out this new track from Philadelphia-based producer Nebraska “Death to the Klan”.

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Inga Hensing on the ways trans women mother one another, through bars, in living rooms, on the dance floor.

Lost Girls

by Inga Hensing

Bini Adamczak in translation by Sophie Lewis proposes a new term to denote the antonym of penetration – a word that describes workers of the anus and the mouth, the vagina and the hand as active instead of passive.

On Circlusion

by Bini Adamczak

Disobedient daughters of disobedient mothers, who broke all the rules so we could do the same.

Unruly

by Rianna Jade Parker

Insomnia Mix With tracks from LSDXOXO, TLC, Modulaw, and so many more, Night Doll brings us a mix to get you ready for another sleepless weekend.

I am learning that mothering is more of a decision. If this is unnatural, well, so is the way I’ve been brought into the role – through a death than a birth. Is it strange for a child to have years more experience being a daughter than her caretaker has at mothering? It’s a situation that requires work.

Learning to Mother Someone Else’s Child

by Emily Dall'Ora Warfield

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The Summer of This Content

Get out there and make the shit you wanna make.

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Is self-harm a kind of language? If so, what are Ed’s arms telling us over the table?

Envy Isn’t Something You Hold

by Santiago Jose Sanchez

Kai Williams carries the weight of her great-grandmother and civil rights activist Yuri Kochiyama's legacy in the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests at her prep school.

Legacy Kid

by Kai Williams

Get the Glow Mask brings you Misha's “Radiant Flush” mix, an analog wave of black voices and magic.

Cameos Light up your life with style tips, dreamscapes, beauty advice, and more from Soleil Summer, Vivian Medithi, and Meowzai

Letters by Hanna Hurr

To Those Who Possess Something Extra

This is The Mommy Issue, in which we curl into fetal position and feel some type of way about the mothers in our lives.

Horoscopes by Corina Dross

July 2016

The thunderstorms of July break trees, electrify the air, and reduce all solid earth to viscous mud. We don’t get to sit this one out.

Prisons are for Burning by Neal Shirley

“This Court is a Farce!”

Here is an incomplete list of some of the notable, exciting, or horrible things that have been happening on both sides of the prison walls in good old North America.

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