Odds and Ends
From the Magazine
The Whole Universe Catalog
© Paul Sahre
Satellite Landscapes
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
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 ...
Care Manual
What if we lived in a world founded on community care?
Boob Jubilee
The artist of “Boob Jubilee,” William Powhida, would like to thank The Center for Bourgeoisie Studies (CfBS) for their research assistance.
