The Lonely Issue

Cover photo by Kashi Tamang
Black Data While registering people to vote, Ishmael Bishop learned why the black radical tradition includes a big dose of skepticism towards big data.
Wearing Google Cardboard to Watch the Revolution Virtual reality devices like Oculus Rift place you at the center of another universe..
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Cum Before the Anxiety Sets In

by Lena Solow

After switching to they/them, 90s baby cartoons like Rugrats helped me figure out who to be.

Born Again Genderqueer, Raised by Memes

by Haley Markbreiter

Check out this Bash Back! inspired bomber I can think of a couple kids who would love to their hands on this one.

A House In Oakland A tight-knit group create shelters for the homeless in an innovative and reproducible way, direct action.

Watch: “Jones” by Goon Soul about a night with a lover in the underbelly of Montreal’s club scene.

Without Tenderness We Are in Hell

Watch: “Hollywood Babylon” by XUXA SANTAMARIA Plus: Sofía Córdova on creative labor as a means of survival.

Cameos Kashi Tamang, Masha, and Chinwe Okona talk looks, lonely, and horoscopes.

Dan Knows Best by Dan Allegretto

Joe Shit the Rag Man

TFW you find out your childhood monster is just a nice normal dude.

It was just going to be a couple of hours and a few hundred bucks. But when he asked me to spend the night, I happily said yes.

Tattoo

by Alex Wolfe

Post-Apocalyptic Sensuality Watch the new music video “Green Light” from Pamela_ and her sons.

Strong Hearts to the Front A video invites people to join the struggle against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Sunday Afternoon at the Red Hook Record Store

Horoscopes by Corina Dross

February 2017

Eclipse season always ups the ante.

Letters by Isabelle Nastasia

Lonesome Town

This is The Lonely Issue, in which we play broken telephone with our feelings, hoping one of us will find a grain of truth in the chaos.

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