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Editorial Note to Feature #3

We are pleased to share the publication of our third issue! “For Many Returns” is written as a correspondence between Nasrin Himada and Ruanne Abu-Rahme and Basel Abbas’s The Incidental Insurgents. Engaging with writing as a process, this piece takes up the task of writing alongside, and with the artwork. In this first iteration of “For Many Returns,” Himada grapples with the limitations of grief as it is felt in relation to the poetic images of a desolate, post-apocalyptic Palestinian landscape. “The Beloved” is the transcript for a video piece with the same title by Candice Lin. Lin takes the reader through our…

E-Jane: #cindygate, NOPE (a manifesto), #MoodExercises

We want to obsessively discuss the artists we love, support: who we think should fill up everything and everyone. E. Jane is one such artist for us. E. Jane is a multidisciplinary artist residing in Philadelphia. We first heard about their work because of  #cindygate–a badass, performative twitter teach-in that is now web archived. Did…