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Satellite Landscapes
November 2021
Issue No. 60
Much of the strangest architecture associated with humanity is infrastructural. We have vast arrays of rusting cylinders, oil rigs dotting wastelands like lonely insects, and jewel-toned, rhomboid ponds of chemical waste. We have gray and terraced landfills, five-story tall ...

Branding Hillary
When it comes to politics, content is king. Our obsession (mine included) with the horse race of presidential politics leads us to obsess over the minutiae of campaigns, and in this endeavor graphic design is tasty chum. After all, in a world this batshit insane, analyzing ...

Say Their Name
STREET TRANSVESTITES ACTION REVOLUTIONARIES FONT “AS A TRANS LATINA, SYLVIA RIVERA WAS AN OUTLIER AMONG WHITE GAY MEN AND LESBIAN FEMINISTS. IN 1970, SHE COFOUNDED THE MILITANT GROUP AND YOUTH SHELTER STAR (STREET TRANSVESTITE ACTION REVOLUTIONARIES) WITH AFRICAN AMERICAN ...

Robert Lynch Remembered
I was first introduced to the papers of Robert Lynch, a Black gay man from North Carolina who died of AIDS in 1989, by Brenda Marston, the curator of Cornell’s Human Sexuality Collection. She showed me, as evidence of her commitment to collecting pornography, a set of slides ...

All-Star Poets
September 2020
Issue No. 53
GEORGE MOSES HORTON (c. 1798–c. 1883) George Moses Horton is the only American to publish a book while living in slavery. In his poem “On Hearing Of The Intention Of A Gentleman To Purchase The Poet’s Freedom,” Horton summoned something grand to say about his ...

Boob Jubilee
  The artist of “Boob Jubilee,” William Powhida, would like to thank The Center for Bourgeoisie Studies (CfBS) for their research assistance.