The Binary Does Not Exist
On this International Transgender Day of Visibility, we recognize all who defy gender constructs, including those who identify as genderqueer and non-binary. The interview and gallery below celebrate all gender…
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KAT CUNNING x LADYGUNN: NINE LIVES
Nine Lives, hosted by multi-faceted artistĀ KatĀ Cunning, is an Instagram Live Q&A series to celebrate Womenās HERSTORY Month. KatĀ appears on their Instagram (@katcunning) each Monday and Wednesday in March, with a…
PRIM-‘N-POPPIN
Ā Itās sheer! Itās queer! Itās shiny and it never smears! Prim ān Poppinā is a pastel-beauty-art-dream, that serves as both an antithesis and an ode to the slowly evolving beauty…
LADYGUNN x NINE LIVES WITH KAT CUNNING
Nine Lives, hosted by multi-faceted artist KatĀ Cunning, is an Instagram Live Q&A series to celebrate Women's History Month. Kat appears on their Instagram (@katcunning) each Monday and Wednesday in…
LAST MINUTE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE: STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS
The holidays always tend to sneak up on us. First, it's Black Friday and we don't want buyers remorse so we hold off on buying gifts. The next thing we…
NEW AGE DATING APPS GO BLIND TO BEAT INHERENT PREJUDICES
It's been just 53 years since Loving V. Virginia made interracial marriage legal across all 50 states. With the topic of race abuzz in the US, as well as the…
photos / Brandon Hicks
ALYCIA PASCUAL-PEĆA IS ‘SAVED BY THE BELL’
Everybody remembers watching the 1990s sitcom classic āSaved By The Bellā starring some of our all-time favorite actors and actresses from Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Lark Voorhies, and Tiffani Amber-Thiessen. Now,…
photo / Steve Zeitzoff
BEYOND THE STREETS: IN CONVERSATION WITH MISTER CARTOON
Los Angeles in the 1980s found itself simultaneously unraveling at the hems of social unrest and flourishing in amorphous creative prosperity. A teen at the time, Mark Machado expended…
photo / Michael Creagh
NATURI NAUGHTON IS TAKING CONTROL & OWNING HER ‘POWER’
The worldĀ was first introduced to Naturi Naughton as a member of one of the staple girl groups of my childhood, 3LW.Ā āNo More (Baby Iāma Do Right)ā had…
photo courtesy of Monte Stevens
ON DAY OF MOURNING
I have been to so many funerals, I have lost count.Ā Ā I am not trying to say that death, or rather, my exposure to it, has made me a stronger…
photo / Walter Wlodarczyk
CUQUITA THE CUBAN DOLL CHALLENGES THE WHITE ART WORLD ELITE
It is 2018. In front of the 14th street Union Square stop, Yali Romagoza sits in complete stillness. The sign next to her reads: āHello, my name is Cuquita…
WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR? QVEEN HERBY
Thereās just something about Qveen Herby. I donāt know if itās her feel good music, her glowing personality, the fact that she can rap about anything in the world and…