Dad Genes
Tell me that I’m the stuff of science fiction. Tell me that I’m a cheap, capitalist commodity, a failed eugenic experiment in nature and nurture. Tell me, if you will, “Shit, man. That’s heavy.” Just don’t tell me that he’s […]
Culture
Show Review: Prism
For many Atlantans, Edgewood Avenue has garnered quite a reputation for attracting Buckhead Bros and their Betty counterparts, and that reputation is somewhat warranted. Edgewood has seen its fair share of changes—and with those, growing pains. Since 2005 (ish), the
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NO ONE IS COMING
But it’s fine—you’re already here One morning in fall 2018, I woke up plagued by dissolution and with an existential hangover. I’d spent the previous night chainsmoking, asking the big, ultimately unimportant questions of why any of us are here
WANTED : BASSIST (GIRL)
I’ve always felt the coolest women in bands perform outside the traditional normative standards of beauty. To be clear, when I mention “bands,” I’m referring to a holistic four- or five-piece musical group in which all members contribute equally. I’m
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COUNTRY QUEER: QUEER-EYEING YOUR SOUTHERN BELLE
Growing up in Southwest Georgia, where Jesus is the president and being gay is the same as having leprosy, the “Southern Lady” has quite a standard to uphold. As an essential component of that standard, my feminine appeal and overall
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IMMIGRATION: WE ARE ALL AFFECTED
Originally published in Atlanta Pride Guide, October 2019. Attention, brothers and sisters: we have a crisis. I write this over 50 years since the revolutionary Stonewall uprising: a milestone that sparked a movement that fights to ensure no one would
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(YOU BETTER WORK) uberMODEL
The recent shift of employers looking towards employing contract, contingent freelance, and temp workers has also brought promises of flexible work hours, higher hourly rates, and independence—but at what cost? The past decade has brought a swath of change to
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LINEUP: WORKING IN FOOD SERVICE IN THE DEEP SOUTH
Barring extreme and most likely quite interesting circumstances, the reader of this article has eaten at a restaurant. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that there were 647,646 private food service establishments in the U.S. in late 2018. As of
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INTERVIEW: FREE HUMANITY
“The biggest delusion and marketing scheme is if you work hard enough you can live the American Dream. But one has to be asleep to live that dream.” @freehumanity Free Humanity is a street artist based in Los Angeles who
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POLYAMORY: SHIFTING DYNAMICS OF MODERN LOVE
In 2019, people are pushing the boundaries of traditional romance and relationships more than ever. One way we see these challenges manifest is through the increasing popularity of a new kind of relationship structure: ethical non-monogamy, also known as polyamory.
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