We joined forces with 1149 Collective to bring you this playlist on the theme of nourishment!
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Nature: With Us, Against Us, Within Us Official Playlist
The Culturework team is thrilled to present a playlist to accompany this issue’s theme: Nature: With us, Against us, Within us. The word itself connects to such a range of experiences, including gratitude, fear, courage, wonder, and a thirst for positive change. Our editor Marina Murayama Nir has included a few spotlights on creators Treya…
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Decolonization, Queerness, and Ancestral Nurturance in Xango/Suave’s “Hooks And Stones”
“Hooks and Stones” embroidery piece by Mazzie Interview by Marina Murayama Nir Last Winter, the Culturework team featured Hartford, Connecticut-raised, Oberlin-based, Puerto Rican experimental pop band, Xango/Suave, and their song, “Rituals,” on our Matriarchy Playlist. Their 2017 album, Equis, rich in varying musical styles, examines “colonial resistance in Puerto Rico and explores personal negotiations of…
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Residue
by Marina Murayama Nir Fragments and Residue are the first two tracks of my upcoming album and magazine, Unfurl. The goal of the project is to explore what matriarchy means in my family, and to examine the nuances of being a first-generation person. The image that represents my album is of an ikebana (Japanese flower…
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Matriarchy 2018 Official Playlist
The Culturework team is thrilled to present a playlist to accompany this issue’s theme: Matriarchy. We liked the idea of how expansive the theme could be, and hoped that the invitation would extend to everyone. We wanted to pose questions of how matriarchy is connected to femininity, togetherness and separateness, honor and expectation, protectiveness, pain,…
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Exploring With Models, by Rico Alice
Interview by Rebecca Bacon Ehlers I first met Darien Carr, also known as the hip-hop artist Rico Alice, in a Berlin beer garden in the spring of 2016. I was there visiting my sister, who’d gotten acquainted with them through the study abroad program that had brought them both to the city. They were…
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