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horse bridle made from watsonia leaves by Hannah Thornhill

The bronze mermaid from the Middle East, the age of 3000 years.

This is not true and it is in fact neither very simple nor very plain to forage sustainably. This kind of flippant "it's such an easy hobby" attitude when it comes to harvesting is exactly *why* there are so many problems with once-abundant traditional foods being depleted. Every plant is different, has different needs, and can support a different intensity of gathering. Foraging isn't just some fun hobby, and shouldn't be treated like one. It is a method of intentionally working land to gather resources meant to sustain oneself, whether those resources be food, medicine, or something else. It requires conscious maintenance of the land you are working, and active monitoring of not just your own gathering, but the gathering of your entire community. It requires experiential, often generational knowledge. You cannot boil a resource-gathering operation down to a simple truism and expect others to be able to do it respectfully and sustainably.

Dior Homme

photographer: Hervé Lassïnce

Mikako Ichikawa wearing Kostas Murkudis for Purple Magazine (1999)

Yevgeny Charushin, Snow Leopard

Janin, Jenin is currently free to watch at Palestine Film Institute.

Observed by macronocturno, CC BY-NC

The event married together the city’s thriving ballroom scene with gym culture. It was hosted by health collective TransMaromba, founded by Kayodê Andrade. As the community showed up to compete and perform, prizes for categories inspired by bodybuilding and gym aesthetics – such as Realness, Big Body, Sex Siren and Vogue – were up for grabs, judged by a panel that included important figures from the international ballroom scene.

Connor McKnight, Spring 2024

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Observed by phoenix_starburger, CC BY-NC