An interview with Brooklyn-based, genderqueer Afro-Latinx interdisciplinary artist, student, and educator Felicita “Felli” Maynard on their recent work with wet plate photography to create a fictional archive asserting the historicity of queer and trans Black identity.

With the launch of a national survey, the Creative Justice Initiative, led by Dr. Marta Moreno Vega, aims to redress decades of chronic underfunding and cultural inequity among small to mid-size cultural institutions serving historically disenfranchised communities.

The inability of the New York City Council to adequately meet demands to defund the NYPD’s budget by $1 billion is shortsighted, complicit, and ultimately fails to recognize decades of grassroots community activism to protect the lives of Black and Brown New Yorkers.

An interview with UK-based artist-teacher Jose Campos, whose practice “amplifies the history and culture of his native El Salvador through contemporary portraiture and social practice-inspired installations.”

Gallery Gurls founder Jasmin Hernandez interviews the Afro-Cuban artist on her most recent show, “Miss Education: Reclaiming Our Identity,” at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in Brooklyn.