Neopets is the greatest kids’ game website ever. It taught me almost everything I needed to know about the world. While I learned nothing in my high school math class, I learned all about the stock market while restocking my shop playing Neopets.

If you live in a city that always tells you to be afraid, what happens to the fear once you stop trusting the authorities? At La Colmena, a new social center in Mexico City, the residents hoped to create a space apart from the fear-mongering apparatus, only to find themselves right in the middle of it.

As a teen I was transfixed by the idea of playing in a touring band. At the time, the older hardcore kids I knew seemed so self-assured and steady. It never occurred to me that behind their unwavering facades, they were just the exhausted husks of the human beings they once were, on their very last nerve, and on the verge of financial and physical oblivion.

Let these Southern queers take you on a tour to Beauty World – the “one-stop shop for every fag, hag, and drag in North Carolina.”