The Lakeview Crew #7: Hold All The Feels
Sometimes you just need to call your friends, breath together, and feel all the feels. Maya may not always be the best listener, but after a hard week, Max and Maya have a heart to heart.
Visual Art
Grease Bats: Bath Time
“We’re warm, we’re drinking and best of all we’re naked!”
Pandemic Dating
Dating looks different now.
Baopu #77: Internal Soundtrack
Finding the soundtracks that have been there all along, making room for new sounds.
Foolish Child #80: It Never Ends
Well yes. It turns out the apocalypse creeps on you slowly, starting oh — in about March 2020, who would’ve guessed?
Reine #12: Take A Sip, Babes
Are you a “finish your seltzer” gay? Or a “let your seltzer get flat & warm and make your partner finish it for you” gay?
The Lakeview Crew #6: Reunion
In an abolitionist dream of the future, Celeste is reunited with her formerly incarcerated mom.
Foolish Child #79: Comply
“I really don’t need to be in my house simmering over the racist comments on violence against Black people.”
Grease Bats: Gratitude
“What’s the point of podding if I can’t fix your unhappiness?”
Baopu #76: Lost, With Directions
I’m searching for the right person who can help me go through all this confusion.
Foolish Child #78: We Got Jokes
“You know I can’t tell when you’re making Black people jokes!”
Reine #11: Heat Wave
One hot, queer week in the summer of 2020. From face masks, to protests, to cats sleeping on ice packs to beat the heat.
Foolish Child #77: Black Lives Matter Isn’t a Trend
What’s the point in arguing with a world that will always devalue Black skin?
The Illuminations Grant Offers New Possibilities for Black Trans Women Artists
The Illuminations Grant is a testament to what can happen when cultural producers invest their energy not just in the documentation of trans people, but also in creative solutions for their lives and careers.
Scenes from a Gender: Illustrated Moments of Trans Womanhood
Four scenes from my life as a trans femme.
What Is Even Happening in Andrew Cuomo’s Bananas New Covid-19 Poster for New Yorkers?
“I can only describe my current emotional state as 🙃 “
The Lakeview Crew #5: Thoughts on “Asians For Black Lives”
Aiden contemplates what it means to identify with the phrase “Asians for Black Lives.”
Baopu #74: Radical Reconsiderations
As a queer Asian woman, I’m asking questions and finding my place in activism beyond self-love.
Foolish Child #74: Karens Don’t Get It
“Karen” is a whole conversation about: white fragility, white privilege, white women weaponizing their tears against Black people when we don’t comply.
Reine #9: Take Care of Each Other
From a distance, or side by side in the streets, we take care of each other.
One American Goes to See “30 Americans”
“And I thought how interesting is it that America can be this dark star, death star, and also at the same time this incredible shining light.”