Andrea Elliott exposes how systemic issues and rising dehumanisation are at the centre of New York’s homelessness crisis
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Daisy is a visual artist born and raised on Detroit's westside, currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work aims to humanise the black body by highlighting the wonders and the struggles of the Black experience.
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On sexual pleasure, boundaries and empathy
As the daughter of a multigenerational lineage of farmers, and raised in a primarily agricultural P’urhepecha descendant community in Michoacan, Mexico, I experienced a close relationship with my food and where my food came from from a young age. Migrating back to the so-called United States was a drastic emotional,...
The first time I’m introduced to Maya Penn over email, I’m informed that she is a 21 year old environmentalist, who’s been in the activism space since she was eight years old. At 28 years old, I’m fairly sure there’s nothing I’ve been doing for eight years, besides maybe breathing,...
At least three times a week, I record a 59 second video during my lunch break. I spend my evening editing and posting it to Feel the News with Marcela, my TikTok show. It’s a news show with a sense of humour and anarchism, delivered in under a minute. The...
When the body positivity movement emerged on the scene in 2012, the language surrounding bodies – particularly those belonging to fat, Black women – changed drastically. Gone were the size 0 waistlines and airbrushed complexions teetering down runways and dominating magazine covers; in came what finally felt like reality being...
