Mask: The Crossing Paths Issue

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Frenemies Make the Best Medicine

by Ripley Soprano

Sultry stoner sounds Peep Kai OD’s new music video “Blue Wave” featuring his cute ass crew.

The gesture is as much an exposé as it is a survival tactic. In public, my body exits my realm of control. I glance up at you in the hopes that you return my gaze with kindness.

There is so much to say, but as events continue to unfold, we've opted to forego analysis and try to collect as many links to live coverage as possible. We'll be updating this article as much as possible over the next few hours.

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Feed Me by Anwar Batte

Strapped Sistas

Celebrate badass women everywhere with the Facebook page Strapped Sistas, which has been posting a steady stream of photos depicting women carrying guns since December.

At 22, Ruby Brunton had been an orphan for one year, but was still looking for fellow orphans to help her make sense of her loss. She went looking online, and found something quite disturbing.

In Search of Orphans

by Ruby Brunton

“The letters come about once a month. The business-sized envelopes have the bland uniformity of mass production. The address of the prison is printed in the upper left-hand corner. Below that, my brother writes his name and his Department Identification Number (DIN), in black pen.”

Writing to My Brother in Prison

by Matt Lucas

Jafé Paulino

Bad News by Tyler Reinhard

Jet Fuel Can’t Melt Steel Beams

World’s most radiation-tolerant robot collapses at Fukushima. US DoD admits US Constitution racist. My sleep schedule is really bad. Russia and Iran to play swapsies. Brawndo has what plants crave. Right-wing truthers teach Evil NWO Satanists a thing or two. And more from the worst week in history!

Affect Matrix: How to feel about jailbreaks, military inspired fashion, and Hilary Duff’s blue hair.

”Riot” Spells the Beginning of a Solo Career for Bibi Bourelly, Rihanna’s 20-year-old songwriter.

Slow Holler A group of Southerners, queers, and artists are making a completely new tarot deck together.

Bad News by Tyler Reinhard

You Can’t Beat Them, You Can’t Join Them

CIA wishes spying wasn’t so tough. TSA accidentally finds thousands of innocent but suspicious-looking immigrants. Your Facebook friend poked you ... with divorce papers. Water thieves on the loose in California. Search Nestle. And lots of cops hurting people.

Southern Gothic A playlist by Chloe Chon about settling into a new city.

Mathias Wåg

The April To-Do List Keep your April calendar packed with shows, talks, and readings.

A.M. Glittlitz escaped Brooklyn for Berlin, and found not the leftist squat haven he’d imagined, but a city as burned out as the one he’d left behind.

Berlin Diary

by A.M. Gittlitz

What I Learned Tracking My Sleep For a Week Maybe we’re grumpy depressed because we're exhausted.

Junglepussy hexes the Earth like an oracle in new music video “Me”.

Bad News by Tyler Reinhard

Bad News Travels Fast

Sorry, my semen only eats organic vegetables. McDonalds introduces table service ... that’s it, that’s the joke. Live-action Winnie The Pooh aka goodbye cruel world. Chris Rock’s pulled-over selfies. Homophobic pizza parlor raises nearly a million bucks how’s that for a sentence. And the US Military is teaching soldiers about white privilege.

@Trash_Mom

Watch the Columbia Report on Rolling Stone’s Gang Rape Article The magazine officially retracts its feature on a University of Virginia gang rape.

Che and Reina Gossett

Horoscopes by Corina Dross

April 2015

If you are feeling lonely and confused right now, you’re not alone.

Letters by Ripley Soprano

Keep Your Friends Closer

“I repeat ‘friends can save your life if you let them’ to myself as a mantra, not entirely sure if it is a rallying cry or a cry for help.”

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