The Multiple Worlds Issue

On The Cover vikki law photographed by hanna hurr, check out the full interview.
Horoscopes the sun and planets are hella fucked up, the people will be so crazy you should just stay inside today.
Call for Submissions Want to write for the next issue of Mask? You're probably overqualified, but fuck real jobs anyway.
december to-do list Fine rarities of IRL things and URL places to enjoy this month. Check them off one by one.
MTV released a video supporting riots. Game-changing? Probably not, but who would fucking guess that this is real life.

Queer Limbo Life in Canada’s Waiting Room

by David K. Seitz

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Rapper Bobby Shmurda spent Christmas in Prison on alleged gang activity. He is awaiting $2 million bail.

Kanye West Signs Kacy Hill – a former American Apparel model and backup dancer on his Yeezus tour.

Merry Christmas from St. Louis Police Department You can't make this shit up: cops killed another young black man.

Know-Wave for Christmas Listen to these awesome podcast episodes featuring rad women artists on the guerrilla radio channel Know-Wave.

Ray-Ban’s New Anti-Gentrification Ad Campaign. This campaign flips the script on who wears Ray-Ban, a brand that is commonly associated with the ‘hipster’.

This streetwear is made out of construction gloves, is it art or fashion or what?

Joey Labeija and DonChristian celebrate Sagittarius birthdays and give us new friend goals for 2015.

Rolling Stone might be police abolitionists and revolution over reform may be moving slowly into the mainstream.

90s Babies Rap by Christopher Alley

Versace, Versace, Versace

MIGOS is next up in our series about rappers who were babies in the 90s. They’re a walking Chappelle’s Show sketch, and their trend-setting is going to keep them around for a minute.

During the East Bay Anarchist book fair last week, people organized a fight night between anarchists and motorcycle club members. Matt Lucas recounts what it was like to beat up a guy.

Team Nihilism vs. Team Marxism

by Matt Lucas

Culture Round-Up: KKK plays dress-up, Pizza Advent Calendar, Tumblr’s most reblogged in 2014, and other ways to survive the holiday season.

So, you’re old now. One of the side effects of your continual aging is that now you’re like the grown-up in some little kid’s life. And maybe that kid’s life doesn’t revolve around the intense consumer fest that is “the holidays,” but it probably does, and you should probably buy that kid something. And that something should probably be books.

Great Books for the Kids in Your Life

by Maggie Block

WATCH: RONiiA's Visual Love Letter to Tween Angst. Bored tweens toast troublemakers everywhere with flaming molotov cocktails.

WATCH: Fanon for Beginners Concerning Violence is a new documentary about anti-colonial struggles in 1960s and 70s Africa.

The December To-Do List – What we are watching, reading, doing, and hearing this month.

The chanting started, and I fell in sync with them. We circled that clock as we screamed for Eric Garner. Eric Garner who was killed over a fifty cent “loosie” cigarette. Around a clock worth $20 million. It felt surreal and necessary.

The Ghost of Christmas Future

by – Anonymous

MTV Supports Riots We waited for MTV to get it wrong somewhere in this video about riots, but they never really did. What?!

90s Babies Rap by Christopher Alley

Six Chicago Rappers to Watch

Christopher Alley continues to feature rappers who were young in the 90s. This week, he closes in on Chicago: Lil Herb, Lil Bibby, Chance The Rapper, Vic Mensa, and Lil’ Durk.

Artists in the Hot Seat for Staying Silent. It's an outright messing-with-the-bull-and-getting-the-horns situation for white artists who appropriate black culture.

Horoscopes by Corina Dross

December 2014

As we near winter solstice, we're coming up on that day when the sun barely makes an effort, rising late only to skirt the horizon in a dim and distant arc before ducking under the red earth. Over the millennia that humans have been aware of this cycle, we've collectively determined that now is a good time for as much partying as we can manage.

Letters by Hanna Hurr

Passing through Worlds beside Worlds

A police-free zone is not a “new world”, it is merely the collision of many. Many worlds smaller than that of police order and governance individually, but that perhaps together are capable of defending themselves. Of surviving a collision.

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