Contributors

Chloe Marisa Blog

Chloe Marisa Blog is a writer, photographer, and educator from Huntington, New York. Her poetry has been featured online at Seventh Wave Magazine, Bad Pony Magazine, Shrew Literary Magazine, and Ragazine. In 2016, her chapbook received the Alfred Bendixon Award for best honors thesis from Binghamton University. She is a recent graduate from New York University’s MFA program in poetry, and she currently teaches 5th grade English Language Arts in West Harlem. Follow her on Instagram.

Graziano and Gutierrez

The Graziano and Gutierrez brand was founded in 2018 by Alejandro Gutierrez and Samuel Graziano while still in school at the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. The brand represents their senior thesis project wherein they released their first collection upon graduation in May 2019. After graduating, Alejandro relocated to Portland, Oregon to work as the full-time owner of the brand. The brand’s focus is repurposing Mexican textiles commonly used for upholstery or tablecloths to give them a new, unique, and personal use. Graziano and Gutierrez creates pieces to preserve, honor, and share the incredibly rich heritage of Mexico, while also providing a platform for the artisans’ work to shine. Highlighting and working directly with the communities that weave their fabrics, Graziano and Gutierrez provides consistent fair-work and -pay, while teaching customers about Mexican traditions at large. Find more of their work on their website and on Instagram.

Gabriel Held

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Held is fashion’s force to be reckoned with. A hoarder of sorts, he began collecting clothes in high school, inspired by the great hip-hop icons of his generation (think Eve, Kelis). After years of unsuccessful business endeavors, retail jobs, and handing out resumes along Fifth Avenue, Held realized his clothing collection had the power to be more than just his wardrobe; thus the beginnings of Gabriel Held Vintage took shape. Nowadays, if Held isn’t busy producing a shoot for Galore Magazine as their New York Fashion Editor, he’s hosting the Hadids at his Williamsburg archive or sending samples to the team at Versace. He has made a name for himself in the world of fashion: styling musical artists and models for red carpets and shoots, sourcing new product to fuel his collection, and curating his uber-cool Instagram page.

Steven James

With his debut EP, Lazy Gay, Steven James delivers a clash of sound driven by his come-up in the queer grunge scene of New York and his eventual move out to the West Coast. The Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and producer takes us on an alternative rock exploration featuring classic fuzz and raw tones reverberating a dreamlike haze. Follow his artist page and personal account on Instagram.

‘Imipono Kenyatta

ʻImipono Kenyatta is a Kānaka Maoli poet and essayist from Nānākuli, Oʻahualua. He writes about the often harsh realities of contemporary Native Hawaiian life plagued with intense forms of physical and psychological poverty. Find him on Instagram.

Tori Lassman

Tori Lassman is a Brooklyn-born playwright and theatre artist. She is a co-founder of After-School Special Theatre, a scrappy DIY theatre group dedicated to presenting accessible work of the interactive, campy, and bizarre. Her play Sweet Shop was, most recently, developed in the Casa Na Ilha residency in São Paulo, Brazil. Tori's work has been seen and workshopped with Young Playwrights Inc., Breaking and Entering Theatre, The Playwright's Loft II, The Dionysian Magazine, and New Georges.

Kasey Oldford

Kasey Oldford is a mixed-media artist based in New York. She holds a BFA from NYU in Art and Technology. Her work ranges from commercial and experimental video work, to motion graphics, drawing, and painting. She loves looking through raw footage for human fuck-ups and iambic pentameter. Find her on Instagram.

Leigh Silverblatt

Leigh Silverblatt is a video artist based in Portland, Oregon (originally from Cleveland, Ohio). She is a member of online video art collective, Undervolt & Co. Her work combines old and new media, mixing analog video feedback with 3D modeling and special effects software, to create abstract/alien environments and entities. Find more of her work on her website.

Rossana Tich

Rossana Tich lives in Hackney, London. She worked in public relations for a long time, primarily in fashion, design, and architecture, with a segue into electric vehicles. For years, friends asked what was she was going to do with her magazine collection—as it did take up a lot of room—but it was only with Instagram did she discover that she could create something interesting. Her project, Magazine Fan, came at a time when she needed a daily escape, and has since been featured in DAZED Digital. Besides fashion photography, architecture and historic buildings are Tich’s other passions. Now, she has custom-built shelves for her magazine collection.