Connie and Aaron tell us how they found their place within their "ugliness". It's an exploration of the rejections they faced as bodies with disabilities and the sanctuary they created by shifting their focus away from conventional beauty to better appreciate their uniqueness.

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Farewell, the Frenx Academix

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Farewell, the Frenx Academix

The Académie gendered the language. A collective of artists is undoing it.

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72 days of silence

She calls her mother in Iran for Norouz. The line is dead. Bombs are falling.

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