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Check out “A Place of Convenience” by Emily Hott on pg. 3 in #foolsvol6 • “We Enter the gas station near home with Ziploc baggies full of scavenged quarters. The blast of cold air could take you somewhere else, where cases of chilled soda stretch eternally, and we don’t have to worry about mom coming home on time because it doesn’t matter here, in this place.” • Design by @vivi.le | illustration by @chosie
Vol 6 is here! ✨ • Read this beautiful piece, “Scatter my Ashes Like Stardust on the Prarie” by @adriandersfeld on pg. 45 of #foolsvol6 • Illustrations by @adriandersfeld | design by @riotrayelle • Love what you see? Check out more on foolsmag.com
“People cry, holding their hands to their mouths, clasping their slack jaws, unsure if this is truly happening. During the song, ‘Drunk Walk Home,’ the voices of the audience rise to the beat like an army called to war.” • • We still haven’t stopped thinking about Mitski at the Englert—have you read our article? Find it on foolsmag.com! • Written by @graciehugstrees & @vivi.le Photos by @vivi.le
“Mitski wrestles with the stage—and triumphs. She topples the table, and rocks it back and forth to the roaring beat of ‘Geyser.’ She places the table back down, wraps herself around it and the chair for ’Lonesome Love,’ reclaiming the things that once restricted her. The innocent melody is cut with a brazen proclamation: Nobody fucks me like me.” • • We still haven’t stopped thinking about Mitski at the Englert—have you read our article? Find it on our website: foolsmag.com • Written by @graciehugstrees & @vivi.le Photos by @vivi.le
“The lights radiate from the stage, changing rapidly, creating a colorful chaos. She stands still, singing a tranquilizing ballad. Is she breathing?“ • • We still haven’t stopped thinking about Mitski at the Englert—have you read our article? Find it on foolsmag.com! • Written by @graciehugstrees & @vivi.le Photos by @vivi.le
11AM-2PM, April 26th @ The Mill, Iowa City
11AM-2PM, April 26th @ The Mill, Iowa City
11AM-2PM, April 26th @ The Mill, Iowa City
“My mother, when she and my father traveled to the United States from India, had brought her treasures with them; she had not realized she would have to hide their prized possessions away to find acceptance in the new world.” • Read @suchaeta_h’s piece in #foolsvol5 • Design by @chosie
“Regardless of the fact that I had convinced myself that I would never talk to her again, she is still my mom.” • “Still My Mom” by @jaymerenae featured on pg. 35 in #foolsvol5 • Photos by @jaymerenae // design by @vivi.le
Check out our writing assistant @hannahgulick’s piece + beautiful photos in “The Act(s) of Measurement” on pg. 51 in #foolsvol5 🌙 • “If you say you are going to the moon, isn’t the same as saying to the sun, isn’t the same as infinity. Isn’t the same as going. This is because of the act of measuring-giving birth to distance, to miles and miles and miles, to difference.” • Photos by @hannahgulick // design by @joeflez
“Unlikely Companions” by Rocco Romano on pg. 41 of #foolsvol5 on foolsmag.com • “Progressing further into the forest, I feel a sudden relief as I recall the deer, the foxes, and the dead tree. I realize both life and death accompany me, and that my lonesomeness is a delusion.” 🍃 • Photo by @vivi.le // illustration by @artby_davidd // design by @rileykn
“Gender is a spectrum but I feel the need to choose.” • A beautiful illustration by one of our very talented members, Sage Anderson ✨
“These are the facts: I am spinning around on a rock at over fifteen hundred kilometers per hour and orbiting clockwise around the sun at over one hundred thousand kilometers per hour.” • Read “The Facts Are These” by Tyler Stercula on pg. 3 of #foolsvol5 on foolsmag.com • Illustration by @1alexherrick // design by @joeflez
If you haven’t read the full piece of “Ashes to White Blackness” by @nikkiii_shawww head over to foolsmag.com now! • “Remember when I was tied up in that jump rope in fourth grade because my skin didn’t look like the other kids too Black to fit in with the White; White walls, Whiteboards, White people.” • Check out pg 9 of #foolsvol5 to read the excerpt and to see @villa.clementine’s beautiful illustration + design by @joeflez
“Dinner Time Blues” by @annabanrjee featured on pg 31 of #foolsvol5 • “the clinking of silverware. dinner, he proclaims, is over. but before putting her fork and knife down, she cuts her head off in one fell swoop so that he may be finally safe in his home.” • Read the full piece on foolsmag.com 💻 photo by Hayley Yordanoff // illustrations by @elaine.leigh // design by @chosie
“Change your name. Feel it on your tongue and speak it to your reflection until your old name sounds like the echo of a past life. Sing it in the shower as your old identity burns off your skin and emerge raw, red, and free.” • Read all of “How to Disappear” by Franny Marzuki on pg. 47 of #foolsvol5 on foolsmag.com • Art by @zoe_hermsen // photo by @vivi.le // design by @riotrayelle
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