We are thrilled to introduce the featured artwork for Issue 13: Rebellious Joy, which was designed by Bianca Ng, TSW's 2020-2021 Artist in Residence. The featu... Read More.
The below essay, "rest begets rest," was written by Bianca Ng, TSW's 2020-2021 Artist in Residence, for Issue 13: Rebellious Joy. This essay is one of three pa... Read More.
An Essay on Processing
TSW Art Director, Meg Sykes, on creating the featured image for Issue 13: Rebellious Joy
When I began working on the art ... Read More.
by Vanmayi Shetty
What makes a country great? Surely the answer doesn’t lie in vast tracts of forest land that have been converted into concrete megastr... Read More.
by Saffron Douglas
Editor's Note: What follows are three pieces that offer up three different glimpses into Featured Artist Saffron Douglas's exploration of q... Read More.
Since the end of the Cambodian Civil War in 1975, and the horrific killing fields following the next four years, Cambodia has never recovered; it became an... Read More.
by Rakhee Jain Desai
The topic of “real” American identity and assimilation has never been so simultaneously divisive and uniting. It’s no wonder, then, that “... Read More.
Plainclothes Agenda
by Christopher Kojzar
Let me start by just naming what I am when I go out in public —
a man writing something into a book, who ... Read More.
It's me, Mom.
by Bianca Ng
My parents gave up a comfortable life in China so that their children could have better opportunities. When they came to ... Read More.
By Michelle Nguyen
Dimensions: 14 x 17 in.
Materials used:
Prismacolor colored pencils
Strathmoore Bristol paper
Uni Posca white paint marker
... Read More.
MATTHEW
As my leg was pulled in, I felt the most excruciating pain come over my entire body, from head to toe, traveling through every organ in my body. I don'... Read More.
THIS IS A BODY
by Farah Chamma & Myriam Nehmeh
This is a body
You can touch me
I am organic matter
moving constantly.
Sometimes you let me b... Read More.
The Privilege is All Mine
by Fagan Kuhnmuench
1. The Hotel Bar
Seeing Dolores walk in, or someone who looked like a Dolores (he’d had more than a... Read More.
riot
by TJ Fuller
In seeking truth, the internet is the most powerful tool humanity has ever had. It is also the thing responsible for spreading a... Read More.