Editor’s Note
Tell us where your beliefs take root, what you build your activism upon, and how you form your own narrative in the wilderness of technology, media, politics, and religion.
Artificial Realities
Who can we trust to convey information to us, and how much are we actually willing to accept truths that counter our own realities?
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ReadThe Human Trap
‘The Human Trap‘ portrays the failure of the world to reconcile the concepts of evolution and globalization. -
ReadBehind the Cotton Wool
At age four, I used to secretly squeeze through the cracks in our backyard fence to go and explore the world on the other side. -
ReadSee Through and Shaking with Holes of Silver
the world ran out of people / but we’re still here / we do normal things / take the subway home to / each other hold hands / when no one’s looking -
ReadWhere You Go
From my desk, I watch her turn the pages. She is meticulous, each touch / feather-light and exact in her dissection. -
Read“Oh, Galileo”
The purple haze of Jupiter surrounds us in its cool-toned glow. -
ReadJersey City Poems
A swirl of trash – / I’m dodging it. / A gust of nasty wind. / Now you’re about to be / even more remote. -
ReadISOPROPYL (JESUS ENTERS THE MATRIX)
I’m sitting with Larry at a Chipotle in midtown and his thousand-yard stare tells me I might dial the nihilism down a notch. -
ReadBlue Before Dark
For six days after the operation, everything was blue. -
ReadThe Privilege is All Mine
Seeing Dolores walk in, or someone who looked like a Dolores (he’d had more than a few since clocking out) -
ReadAnd They Said It Would Be Divine
It breaks like this: We hold on tightly, and literally, because we’re young and we’re stupid and because we still want to have hope.
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Issue 4ReadYou Are Politics
Politics is where we wake up — it is the hope that the structure that exists around us is not actively trying to destroy us. -
Issue 6ReadDangerous Bodies
Who gets to define safety and fear, security and terror? Who can we trust to tell us when, where, and how we are safe?