Zoe Yu Gilligan interviews Crybaby’s Obsession Issue cover star, Raveena Aurora on her album “Lucid,” being an Asian-American women in music, healing and spirituality, her creative process, love as a verb, and of course, obsession. Photographed by Dana Trippe.
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You Should Be Dancing: A Defense of Disco
Managing Editor Zoe Yu Gilligan writes about her love of disco, its political history, and why we should all be dancing.
Read MoreWe’re all going to die anyways
Managing Editor Zoe Yu Gilligan contemplates death, astrology, New York City traffic, and why everything is going to be just fine.
Read MoreRevisiting “Paris is Burning”
Story by Zoe Yu Gilligan In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, Film Forum in New York City and Landmark’s Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles have been screening Jennie Livingston’s “Paris is Burning”, a 1990 landmark documentary about the city’s “Golden Age” of ball culture in its last years. It won the…
Read MoreMaria Ressa and The Fight to #DefendPressFreedom
“Call it an era, call it an epidemic. Misinformation and censorship have never been so blatant to a generation as they are to ours,” Crybaby’s Managing Editor writes about press freedom and the dangers of “fake news.”
Read MoreI SURVIVE, I SURVIVE: Josie Valdez Fraire
As part of her series on her favorite Indigenous artists and activists, Zoe Yu Gilligan was fortunate enough to share space with Denver-based Mexica artist and activist Josie Valadez Fraire in a downtown Manhattan cafe.
Read MoreGuns and roses and supernovae: a journal entry
Crybaby managing editor Zoe Yu Gilligan journals her thoughts on love, pain, and art.
Read MoreI SURVIVE, I SURVIVE: THIS IS RESISTANCE
Crybaby’s managing editor Zoe Yu Gilligan interviews some of her favorite Indigenous artists and activists about resistance, survival, resilience, identity, and indigeneity.
Read MoreDecolonize your bookshelf with these contemporary Indigenous reads
Sick of reading novels by old white men? Crybaby managing editor, Zoe Yu Gilligan, features her favorite books by Indigenous authors.
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