Illustrations by Claire Schlaikjer
27 illustrations found.
Brunt of the Blade
Aspirational recycling in a post-National Sword world
For decades, barges of recyclables slowly dragged across the Pacific, acting as overrun vessels of the United States’ environmental hope. This …
Dispatches From Pronk
Last Monday, hundreds of Providence residents—artists, activists, students, misfits, puppets—danced the night away to the upbeat cacophony of Providence’s own What …
Then What Isn't?
Thomas did not see the squirrel. He saw a wooden chair resting sideways on the ground. He saw a broken glass …
Week in Unrequited Love
Say No to Marriage According to relationship guru magazine, Cosmopolitan, one in four women will turn down a marriage proposal in …
Home-Field Disadvantage
The PawSox take a swing at the State House
Three years after plans for the construction of a new Minor League Baseball stadium in Providence fell through, the State House …
Leaving the Dungeon
Rhode Island sex workers and the prospect of a union
The one-story wood framed building, located just a few blocks from the Rhode Island State House, used to be home to …
Who Counts?
The end-to-end census test in Providence County
It is no small task to count the nearly 326 million people who live in the United States and its territories. …
Sick Days
Individualized healthcare and corporatized well-being
Of the many protest signs from last week written in that perfect classroom-style, magic-marker-on-cardstock lettering, more than one read: “I’d take …
Carnivore
Sometimes I lie on the bed and my body lists towards your softer side and I pretend that it is your …
Week in Bad Role Models
Don’t Drink & Drone The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had until September 30, 2015 to establish comprehensive rules for the use …
Week in Party Animals
THE POLISH WAY Last week, the Polish Health Ministry released a public service announcement encouraging it citizens to “breed like rabbits.” …
Embody
I spend the first week of May writing about bodies. I sit at library desks for two hours at a time …
Two Poems
content warning: body horror, sexual violence Princess Pāramitā I thought I told you to stop coming here. You make me sick, …
No Clashes
One genealogy of state violence
content warning: sexual violence, suicide “To my daughter I will say, when men come, set yourself on fire.” –Warsan Shire, Teaching …
Week in Bittersweet Bites
A Star Dies in “Holy Wood” Hugh Hefner is dead. He died of chronic old age on September 27 at the …
Synthetic Lovers
Love Dolls in companionship and subjugation
The supple texture of its simulated flesh yields to my fingers of flesh and blood. Gaze fixated upon something in the …
Week in the Home of the Whopper
Burger Kremlin? Step aside, loyalty cards. Cryptocurrencies are set to revolutionize reward programs by enabling trading of one’s accumulated assets online. …
The Corner of the Beach
Bridging a gap in narrative tactics
Question Watch the following segment for bullshit. Experiment 1A There is a new corner of the beach at the elbow of …
Stripping Metaphors
Edith Södergran undoes prejudice
“Warm words, fine words, deep words … They are like the scent of a flower in the night That one cannot …
Vision
A tool for the colorization of dance
In the West, concert dance has historically been linked to the theatre and the proscenium stage—the most common structure in a …
the girls who will train you
have red nails and paws. have straight hair and red aprons. are getting married. are twenty two. dropped out of beauty …
Politics Down Under
Renegotiating Australian-Chinese Partnerships
On Tuesday, March 28, after weeks of warming relations with The People’s Republic of China, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull abruptly …
A Secret Yesterday, A Movement Today
The fight to ensure reproductive rights for Rhode Islanders
In the spring of 1965, Edith Ajello became pregnant after having sex for the first time. She was 21 years-old, unmarried, …
Week in WTF is Happening in the UK?
“The Pub is Closed, Long Live the Pub!” The walls of the nation-state are looking a bit knackered, but the walls …
All Fun and Games
Embodiment, empathy, and combat in e-sports
Upton, New York, 1958. Engineer physicist William Higinbotham repurposes one of Brookhaven Laboratory’s military computers, giving birth to the first video …
Holding Firm
On the history of custard
The Basics The first flan I ever ate was served with a glass of Pepsi. The grown-ups had coffee and my …
Back in the Culture Wars
On the potential defunding of the National Endowment for the Arts
Less than 24 hours before Inauguration Day, an unnamed source told The Hill that Donald Trump’s transition team had already been …