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from urban scenes like midtown Manhattan to photographing animals at my local zoo.

because people who believe stories and alternate realities too much and for too long see things that are not there.always—a life has to be—but what I know for sure is this: there are always other words and other definitions.

When they start describing it—Id live with my friends; Id treat my partner more kindly because Ill at least be allowed to love them; Id just not get married; Id just be an aunty or uncle instead of trying to be a parent; Id share resources with people around me; Id put way less emphasis on money and more on community building—I watch what dawns on all of us.and the kindest thing I can think to do for anyone I love is to follow them to the end of their desire.Its why you can take a word like Vagabond—weaponized by the law of your land in real time— name your work after it and still be here.

about the darker parts of ourselves wed folded away for at least two and a half decades because it was that urgent to be A Good Person.You dont know how to turn Something into Something Else? Listen to what a remix does to a song: how in African Lady.

when a fraction of my chosen family and I gathered to talk about the things were often discouraged from saying in public.

so precise that you think no one will ever know what it feels like under your skin; but theres a song for every feeling and a story for every situation for a reason.And the most interesting aspect of his essay in light of Jacksons death is Baldwins identification with Michael Jackson.

were commemorating another year of the best deal in town: our summer subscription offer with The New York Review of Books.buried at the back of one of those wardrobes that the older crone crammed full of plastic bags and filthy rags.

a horror story—its horror coming from rather than contrasting with the lyricism of Melchors prose.Yet Audens somewhat patronizing précis of the virtues of Richs debut volume captures some of the cultural assumptions that initially shaped her.