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JUNE 20TH, 2014 A BI-WEEKLY WEBPAPER ISSUE 36

Liz Pelly EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Liz is a writer, editor, and organizer. She just moved to Brooklyn. Before co-founding The Media she spent two years working at The Boston Phoenix. E-mail Liz at lizpelly at gmail dot com Faye Orlove CREATIVE DIRECTOR Faye is an illustrator and animator living a very glamorous life in Los Angeles. See her work at fayeorlove.tumblr.com or follow her @resilientbstrd Matt Orlove WEB DEVELOPER Matt used to work for NASA (which his sister thinks is the coolest thing ever). He is currently a software engineer for Captial One (which his sister thinks is less cool but she's still proud of him). E-mail Matt at mattheworlove at gmail dot com CONTRIBUTORS Henry Bonsu ILLUSTRATOR Henry is a person who draws pictures for a living. He lives in Los Angeles. He has a tumblr and a twitter, @henrytheworst. Eloy Lugo MIXTAPE CURATOR Eloy was born and raised in Puerto Rico and currently resides in Los Angeles, CA. He enjoys comedy, reality tv, music, movies and cheeseburgers. Follow him at @eloyvseloy on the tweets and the grams. Chris Lee CONTRIBUTING WRITER AND EDITOR Christopher J. Lee is a freeskool instructor in the Department of Whatever, where he’s taught classes on apathy, astrology, and queer theory. Based in Brooklyn, Chris enjoys riding his bike and reading theory; in his spare time he writes poems about cats and exes. You can reach him at clee@mail.harvard.edu. Freddie Francis CONTRIBUTING WRITER Freddie Francis is a writer, musician, and sparkly tenderqueer living in Oakland by way of Boston. They work at a community movie theater, tend to their garden, pet dogs, and bike around. You can follow Freddie @silverspeakers or email them at cheersfreddie@gmail.com. Stephanie Rhiannon Bird CONTRIBUTING WRITER Stephanie Rhiannon Bird is a visual and performance artist who makes (imaginary) work that speaks in a loud whisper, and with enormous tenderness, to issues of nuanced identity, family, vulnerability, memory, sex, struggle, domesticity, survival, longing, and personal affirmation/emancipation. She is also a trained full-spectrum/abortion doula and an almost-serious cyclist, currently making her way on a bicycle journey called “There is Nothing Wrong with Me” from Seattle to LA. www.stephanierhiannonbird.com Cynthia Ann Schemmer CONTRIBUTING WRITER Cynthia Ann Schemmer is a writer and musician living in West Philadelphia. She writes the creative nonfiction zine Secret Bully. Frankie, her cat, is her creative mews. cynthiaschemmer.com Elle O'Brien STAFF WRITER/ORACLE Elle makes her astrological hypotheses from Baltimore, Maryland, we she also writes dreamy fiction pieces and is trying to stop smoking. She loves her family, telling Jim Morrison her secrets, and wearing smudgy, dark eyeliner that makes her seem v cool and mysterious. E-mail Elle at eleanobr at gmail dot com

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