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Behind the Scenes: Spectator Sport

Word Count: 653

by Rashida Taylor

Fashion Editor Rashida Taylor gives us insights into “the best shoot ever”: Issue 010: JUDGE’s Spectator Sport

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With BTS photographs by FIONA IBANICHUKA
PLUS exclusive photographs by NANA KWADWO AGYEI ADDO

We Were the Many

Word Count: 438

by Linda Everett Bloom

Poetry that digs its hands into the earth of the past, from within the walls of the Minnesotan criminal justice system.

America’s Assad Avatar

Word Count: 424

by Jeffrey Young

Written with the knowledge incarceration brings, poetry as dissent, naming the mirroring of violence between Syria and the US.

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Word Count: 1,514

by Warren Bronson

A reflection on the bureaucratic opacity of the parole process in the US criminal justice system—as seen from within.

Ring the Bell

Word Count: 817

by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon

On emerging from solitude to feel again.

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With TOUDI
a video by BALLA MAL KASSÉ

DIS/EMBODIED

Word Count: 2,258

by Lisa Claire Green

An experimental and dialogic essay on Contact Improvisation.

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With NON-CONFORMING BODIES
a video by LILIANA ZAHARIA

Myopic and Porous, I Reach Out to You

Word Count: 1,195

by Rieko Whitfield

On loss of life and sight, feeling, and embodiment, before the pandemic and after.

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with images from REGENESIS: AN OPERA TENTACULAR (ACT II & III)

YOUR LOVE IS A TRANSIENT DREAM

Word Count: 1,253

by Clarie Gor

Short fiction on loves that linger.

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with HOW I CHOOSE TO SPEND THE REMAINDER OF MY BIRTHING YEARS
a video by SARAH LASLEY

Through the Looking Glass and Other Nonsense

Word Count: 2,492

by Adam Goren

On the difficulties of intimacy in the analytic situation.

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With ALL OF THAT SKIN INTO MY SCREEN INTO MY HAND
artwork by JEANNE TULLEN

HYPERACUSIS

Word Count: 957

by Sophie Hoyle

A lyrical immersion into the painful aspects of psychiatric care.

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With an excerpt from HYPERACUSIS (PART 2)

Behind the Scenes: A Study of Bare Hands

Word Count: 486

by Rashida Taylor

Stillpoint Magazine’s Fashion Editor Rashida Taylor takes us behind the images with documentation from Issue 009: TENDER’s photography shoot

Anthropocene Reversed Abecedarian: Spoken by the Author

Word Count: 328

by Su Hwang

Su reads her poem originally featured in Issue 006: SEIZE.

Out of the Wreck

Word Count: 965

by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon

On what is lost, and what remains for rescue.

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With BITTERSWEET
photography by HANNA HETHERINGTON

THE AMERICAN DREAM: INDENTURED SERVITUDE SUBLATED

Word Count: 1,354

by Dr Stephen Setterberg

A brief history of indentured servitude’s long shelf-life.

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With SOUL (RE)CYCLING WITH RACCOONS IN HUMAN-TIME
a video by LAURA HYUNJHEE KIM

The Gold Bangle

Word Count: 2,650

by Fabiyas M V

Short fiction on the space of forgiveness.

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With artwork by
DUNCAN POULTON

VANISHING POINT

Word Count: 809

by Rashida Taylor

On the glitch of a digital fashion experiment.

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Fashion editorial with photographer
TERNA JOGO

ODE TO THE RISING SUN

Word Count: 441

by Ojo Taiye

Prose-poetry on the reverberations of the Biafra War.

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With EARTHBURNER
a video by MANNY OROZCO

Who Cares What You Wear?

Word Count: 546

by Stillpoint Magazine

Video recording of Sequoia Barnes and Gaurav Monga in conversation over Zoom, January 2021.

Provocations #3: Imagining “The Otherwise”

Word Count: 1,281

by JC Holburn & Tabitha Nikolai

Stillpoint Magazine contributors respond to questions on the digital: With which, and whose, tools do we imagine?

The Mirrored Eye

Word Count: 850

by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon

A reflection on the limitations of the digital, as experienced through and past the pandemic, from Stillpoint Magazine’s Editor in Chief, ending with a provocation for the future: With which, and whose, tools do we imagine?

Behind the Scenes: The Need to Know

Word Count: 358

by Stillpoint Magazine

Stillpoint Magazine’s Fashion Editor Rashida Taylor takes us behind the images with documentation from April’s photography shoot

Nepenthe

Word Count: 684

by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon

Silence as a salve for grief, from our Editor.

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With WTFRU? (PARTS 1 & 2)
a video by AMANDA SUCKOW

IF YOU LISTEN, THERE ARE GLIMPSES

Word Count: 1,025

by Dr Stephen Setterberg

An essay that revels in the sublimity and beauty of silence.

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With WEB CHOREOGRAPHIES
artworks by JOANA CHICAU

Kunjan and Kayami

Word Count: 1,441

by Fabiyas M V

Short fiction of wanderers, distant intimacy, and power in the time of Covid.

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With A HUNDRED STORIES
photographs by SIJIA MA

VERILY WE BELONG TO THEM, AND VERILY TO THEM SHALL WE RETURN

Word Count: 1,369

by Sanah Ahsan

A reflection on love, loss, and mourning.

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With UNNAMED POEM IN MOURNING
a video by LUCY XIAOCHUAN LIU

Are we still afraid of the unconscious?

Word Count: 3,149

by Mathilde Ramadier

An essay evoking the uses and potentials of psychoanalysis.

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With DIAS DE GLÓRIA QUANDO ENCONTRO SEU OLHAR
photographs by IRIS DE OLIVEIRA

DWELLING

Word Count: 420

by Steph Hartop

A lyric of desire, reverence, light, and dark.

Mother: Spoken by the Author

Word Count: 258

by Monica Sanborn

Monica reads her short fiction piece, originally featured in Issue 006: SEIZE.

Common Practices

Word Count: 410

by Stillpoint Magazine

A recording of Cannupa Hanska Luger and Carlos Padrón in conversation, online March 2021.

Dazed in 2020 Vertigo: Spoken by the author

Word Count: 299

by Terron Ferguson

Terron reads his poem which was originally featured in Issue 005: DAZE.

BEHIND THE SCENES: DAY 77

Word Count: 291

by Stillpoint Magazine

Stillpoint Magazine’s Fashion Editor Rashida Taylor takes us behind the images with documentation from August’s photography shoot.

Wingstroke

Word Count: 811

by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon

Considering liftoff, with Stillpoint Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief.

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With L’ALTRO CIELO (DREAM WARRIOR) (PTI)
a video by KLAUS CAPRA

FOLLOWING THE BREAD CRUMBS

Word Count: 1,360

by Dr Stephen Setterberg

An essay on the dissolution of truth and on the political manifestation of Fight or Flight, from Stillpoint Magazine’s publisher.

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With GEOSTORM
a film by EDWARD GWYN JONES

A CONVERSATION WITH: CRICE

Word Count: 292

by Stillpoint Magazine

Lo-fi mini documentary, an interview with Minneapolis-based artist CRICE.

Home Sweet Home

Word Count: 544

by Kausik KSK

Flash fiction fantasizing escape from home.

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With L’ALTRO CIELO (DREAM WARRIOR) (PTII)
artwork by KLAUS CAPRA

MAYBE I’M BORN WITH IT, MAYBE IT’S MY LIBRA MOON

Word Count: 746

by Marie-Aline Roemer

Poetry on the fraught relationship between mothers, daughters, and the firmament.

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With TRAVEL SHIELDS
a video by ANDREA KHÔRA

HEREAFTER

Word Count: 732

by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon

How do we begin to decipher the future? From our Editor-in-Chief.

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With TO THE END
photographs by KATE HOLFORD

ETHICS, HUMANITY & AI: AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. BRENT NELSON

Word Count: 189

by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon

Exploring the immaterial within the material of AI, and where we might find ourselves as a result.

Do Androids Dream of Abroad?

Word Count: 1,951

by Sokol Ferizi

Connectivity, creativity, and daring to dream through the abandonment of exile.

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With KINGDOM OF THE DISPOSSESSED
an artwork by SADIE WEIS

A STUDIO CONVERSATION WITH WRITER JORDAN K. CASOMAR

Word Count: 179

by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon

Race, loneliness, addiction, and community behind the interface of online gaming.