paywall lifted on Astra Magazine's FILTH issue -- Bottlenose by Shuang Xuetao 双雪涛《宽吻》is now available to read online, accompanied by Jia Sung 宋佳瑜's amazing dolphin illustrations 🐬🐬 astra-mag.com/articles/bottl…

Hand carved agate cat with diamond eyes, ca. 1900. christies.com/lot/lot-6340792

sinθ #15 "MAGIC 魔" embraced the chaotic, the grotesque, and the unexplained. Artists featured in this issue include Jia Sung Jia Sung 宋佳瑜, Audrey Lee, Kenneth Lam, Natvipa Tejapaibul, and many more. You can purchase the issue here: blurb.com/b/10070696-sin…

Use the term “touch grass” to indicate that someone needs to seek out reality, use the term “touch moss” to indicate that they need to seek out ancient forest magic beyond their mortal comprehension.

Eat a lot so that you will have energy to fight with the orange cat.

designed this at midnight the night before it was due bc all my original directions got killed, still wish that type rag was better lol, all thanks to PS

Resituating race in the age of the Anthropocene, where the boundaries between human and nonhuman are porous and dynamic, Bayo Akomolafe invites us to rethink how we perceive ourselves and each other. Read this week’s newsletter. mailchi.mp/emergencemagaz… Illustration by Jia Sung 宋佳瑜.

In this week’s podcast, Nigerian writer Bayo Akomolafe deconstructs old stories of colorism and puts forward “monstrosity” as a site to truly meet ourselves. Listen to “When You Meet the Monster, Anoint Its Feet.” emergencemagazine.org/podcast/ Illustration by Jia Sung 宋佳瑜.

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As someone who lived through the 2020 Oregon wildfires (and other bad smoke condition years), in which in PDX we had air quality as bad as 516 on the air quality index here are some things I did to help myself when we couldn't get a air conditioner and didn't have central air—>

my watercolor tutorial for MoMA The Museum of Modern Art is now live! i paint hyacinths and chat about the pleasures of working from observation <3

Currently, the first train is being punched and bitten by a cat, causing delays in trains! We will resume operation once safety is confirmed!

19 fiction books by Palestinian authors: novels, short stories, and folktales. 1. My First and Only Love (2021) by Shahar Khalifeh. Nidal, an elderly exile, recounts the story when the 1948 Nakba scattered her family; a story of love and resistance from the eyes of a young girl.

So grateful to be embarking on this with the incredible meara sharma and a very dreamy band of contributing editors and artists, incl. Jaquira Diaz, Amanda Gunn, Jia Sung 宋佳瑜, Laura van den Berg, Amber Sparks, and other brilliant human beings. First issue coming at you in spring 2025.