PHOTO ESSAY: LAS ÚNICAS
“Lindsay Rico and I met up on a freezing Sunday morning at a studio space on the top floor of the Williamsburg library. She told me to bring the wings.”
Category Archives: art
WHERE IS ANA MENDIETA?
Ana Mendieta’s work is as intimate as it is universal. Through the Havana-born visual artist’s oeuvre, she uses her body as a tool to “return to the maternal source” – the nature where we come from, where we are buried. In a personal essay on what it means to be Cuban, to inhabit a body and a space on this soil, to find the home that evades us, we reflect on the life of a voice taken from us too soon.
MODERN MOVIE NIGHT: SHE DID THAT
Everyone loves an antiheroine, don’t they? It’s Modern Movie Night and we’re celebrating our favorite cinematic bad girls with a list of films that – despite all their moral ambiguity – will make you say “damn, She Did That” every time.
THE TROUBLING TRANSPHOBIA OF RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE
It goes without saying that RuPaul’s Drag Race has given an important platform to the drag community. In a recent interview with the Guardian, RuPaul made it very clear that he does not see the show as a space for “bio queens”, cisgender women or trans women. We need to support the trans community, the gender non conforming community, and the drag community as a whole.
OUR TOP MUSIC VIDEOS OF 2017
2017 gave us a multitude of incredible music videos, from Kelela’s “LMK” to N.E.R.D & Rihanna’s “Lemon”. Here, Modern Girls share some of their favorites. Just sit back, relax, and press play.
FALL DREAMS ON SCREEN
Need some fall film recs? Of course you do. If you’re a fall enthusiast, or just simply craving a good movie, turn down the lights, light some autumn-scented candles, grab a blanket, and press play on these picks by Chaia.
PHOTO ESSAY: BLOOM
Photographer Jolie Price takes us on a saturated, flower-studded journey into the crux of self-love and what it means to be human.
