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Down There 
As rights erode and public spaces vanish, Mississippi’s lesbians find community from isolation.
ICE and No Kings Protests in Downtown Los Angeles 
June 2025
In Downtown Los Angeles, thousands gathered to demonstrate their lack of support for Donald Trump and his anti-immigration policies. The president dispatched the National Guard and deployed 700 Marines against peaceful protesters without approval from the governor. Violent clashes ensued as law enforcement shot rubber bullets and threw tear gas into crowds of peaceful protesters.
“Today and all to come are my soft and slow murder,” photographer Sophia Cutino writes in the opening poem of her debut book. An afterimage of adolescent experience in an era of constant performance, Cutino breaks down the self through evocation.
Lein
Visiting the home of Annie, a vegan taxidermist, tattoo artist and musician in Portland, OR. Her home is a maximalist gallery of dust-collecting oddities that reimagines how the old and the dead as beautiful and serene. A way of art and life that wholly cherishes Earth’s creatures. The sound of her music carries you through this eclectic graveyard on a gloomy morning with sounds of the saw, the cello and the banjo.

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