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[PRETTY PICTURES] “High & Dry” by K. Eleanor Bleier
We like when people send us things, like records, sunglasses, snacks, love letters, fan mail, and photos. We’re not greedy, we just appreciate free stuff, okay? If we’re into what you send, like if it makes us laugh or cry or dance or smile or reminisce about how fucked up (in a good way) we...
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[PRETTY PICTURES] ‘My Tangerine’ Shot By Renee Carey for Oyster
If there’s anyone who knows how to capture the essence of youth, girl culture, and burgeoning sexuality all in one series of summery, psychedelic and lightly erotic photographs, it’s our main Aussie, Cultist pal and occasional contributor Renee Carey (see the Postcard From Australia she once sent us as proof of our internet friendship). I don’t want you to misunderstand...
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[POP CULT] Jessie Kahnweiler Makes “Meet My Rapist,” Is Our Hero
Sorry to be a downer; I know nobody wants the girl spouting out sexual abuse statistics showing up at the party. But here I am, fashionably late, rape stats in tow (every two minutes someone in the US is sexually assaulted), and in the spirit of compromise, I’ve brought a gift: it’s Jessie Kahnweiler’s “Meet...
![[BRA BURNING] What's The Big Deal About Petra Collins' Bloody Vag Tee? [BRA BURNING] What's The Big Deal About Petra Collins' Bloody Vag Tee?](/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Screen-Shot-2013-10-08-at-12.17.10-PM-290x290.jpg)
[BRA BURNING] What’s The Big Deal About Petra Collins’ Bloody Vag Tee?
If you haven’t heard, some people are repulsed by artist Petra Collins’ Period Power Tee featuring a menstruating vag with a warm welcome mat of pubic hair. Also, if you haven’t heard, some people are repulsed by vaginas, pubic hair, women, the female body, menstruation, masturbation, tampons, talking about tampons, buying their girlfriend tampons, unwaxed...
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[COSMO SUCKS] Does Anyone Have a Spare Boat So I Can Rock It?
One day, Cosmo is going post a listing on Mediabistro calling for a cynical and clever sex writer with a penchant for the casual misuse of who and whom and a heavy reliance on inserting her own emotional baggage into all assignments for emphasis. On that day, I will jump with joy (I don’t jump, so what...
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[TO DO] Johnny Vampotna “Ghost Noir” at Slow Culture
It’s October! Which, for us, means slutty witches and witchy stuff and those candy corn earrings that look deceivingly edible but aren’t and probably a catsuit or two. Anyhow, it’s not quite Halloween yet, but tonight’s Johnny Vampotna “Ghost Noir” opening at Slow Culture Gallery is a great way to get into the spirit of…spirits,...
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[BEST VIDEO EVER] Hunters “Narcissist”
Regrettably, I wasn’t a cheerleader in high-school (although I did date a quarterback coke head whose football games I drank beer on the bleachers during regularly). I was too busy playing Varsity soccer and being administered yellow cards for slide tackling and shit talking the opposition, but had I been, I would have hiked up...
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[PRETTY PICTURES] ‘4Real’ by Justin Ridler X Mark Vassallo for Oyster
Everyone knows Cultist is the unstable home to the best sex + music + questionable feminist confessional content, and Oyster has the best fashion editorials. Out here on the Internet, there is a lot of misinformation, much of it surrounding Khloe and Lamar Odom’s relationship and the effectiveness of condoms (when used properly), but some...
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[FOMO-GRAPHS] Youth Code Record Release At Complex
Wednesday night’s free Youth Code record release at Complex was a sweaty massacre of the senses, hammered down upon us by Sara Taylor and Ryan George, who, throughout the duration of their set, screamed and threatened and released primal noises that made us further resent our utter lameness, rue our vocal restrictions, and shame our...
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[BABY STEPS] How To Ruin A Family Member’s Wedding
Wedding season is in full swing, has been for a few months, and will, presumably, continue to be, as long as you maintain friendships with your kale-loving, craft beer drinking, paperless post using friends. Signing up for a lifetime of joy is great and all, but I will never fully understand the injustice that is...
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[HUNTERS & GATHERERS] A Short Story About “Happiness”
Sometimes we write stuff we have no outlet for, and then you guys get to read it here. This is a story inspired by a time I had to write an article about “happiness” and nearly had a meltdown while attempting to do so. This is the mediocre outcome of that. What is happiness? What the...