MAGAZINE COVER AND SECTION DIVIDERS
TASK: Thoughtfully incorporate existing images to visually reinforce and enhance each issue’s theme.
THEME: BODIES (Winter 2023)
This issue launched a bold new visual direction for the magazine with a cover designed to disrupt narrow definitions of beauty, worthiness, and power. These images were chosen as a visual protest—an ode to body autonomy and the radical beauty of those too often erased. Fat, Black, Indigenous, disabled, and queer bodies take center stage here: powerful, sensual, sovereign, and wholly their own.
THEME: ELDERS (Winter 2024)
To honor the wisdom-keepers among us, I chose portraits by Matika Wilbur—images that radiate reverence, resilience, and ancestral continuity. These elders are storytellers, dancers, language bearers, and protectors of memory. Some had passed on by the time we published, but their presence remains vivid. I fought to bring these images to our pages—not just for their beauty, but because they embody a sacred responsibility: to remember, to respect, and to carry forward what must not be lost.
THEME: ACCESS (Summer 2024)
Amid a resurgence of anti-immigrant rhetoric and violence, I chose Umberto Nicoletti’s striking portraits to center the dignity, complexity, and vulnerability of LGBTQ asylum-seekers—people whose lives are too often politicized or erased. These images reject narrow, criminalizing narratives of who migrants are and instead invite a deeper understanding of asylum as an act of courage, identity, and survival.
THEME: Renaissance (Winter 2025)
This was the final issue before our print pause, and the one I’m most proud of. “Renaissance” evokes rebirth through culture—where beauty, art, science, and possibility converge. I selected these portraits of young changemakers because each embodies a future shaped by imagination, brilliance, and courage. In these images, I saw a new era blooming—one led by grace, innovation, and the power of seeing ourselves as royalty before the world does.