Prose DRESSING WITH MOTHERS May 6, 2025 By Giuliana Mazzetta and Hamutal Hayun Tsila Hayun by Haim Hayun, sometime in the late 1990s. Courtesy the author. As daughters, we are privy to a deeply intimate space: a space where our mothers could be themselves, where they... [READ MORE]
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Prose When Things Fall Apart February 14, 2025 By Issabella Orlando When I want to conjure the image of my mother, I think first of her closet. The walk-in wardrobe at... [READ MORE]
Prose A Love Letter to My Father January 15, 2025 By Thomas Chatterton Williams When he was out running errands or working in his study, bent over a book or teaching the students who... [READ MORE]
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Prose Old Teen December 2, 2024 By Lucy Ives Threva Throneberry pretended for over a decade to be fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen. She presented herself as a fresh-faced, pigtailed... [READ MORE]
Prose The Clothes You Could Have Worn, The Lives You Could Have Lived November 19, 2024 By Ben Highmore Kwaku Alston, Spring Time in Harlem, 2010. Courtesy ICP. It is hard not to feel that for all its personal entangling, clothing is a social skin that is outside... [READ MORE]
Prose Layer After Layer of Loving Devotion September 10, 2024 By Amber Winick Harold Feinstein, Child's Back in Mother's Arms / Putney Vermont, 1974. Courtesy ICP. My mother tells a story about wheeling me around in a supermarket shopping cart as a toddler, wearing so many... [READ MORE]
Prose How You Should Dress July 22, 2024 By Ava Rose Chapman Once, in early summer, after work I went to a house party where I did not know anyone very well.... [READ MORE]
Prose Perfume Ladies May 27, 2024 By Emma Aars Weegee, Vampira in Chanel No. 5 perfume bottle, c. 1953. Courtesy ICP. In comes the occasional man, too. But usually, there are just all these girls who all buy a bottle of... [READ MORE]
Prose Golden Girls: How South Asian Women Preserve Legacy Through Gold May 17, 2024 By Eman Naseer Sebastião Salgado, India, 1990 Solid gold bangles, intricate tikkas encrusted in jewels, magnificent chokers covering the entirety of a woman’s neck — all of... [READ MORE]