BLOOD

Three Wheel of Fortune tarot cards next to each other on a medium wood surface. The wheel in the first is red with clouds around it, the wheel on the second has dragons on a moving wheel, and the third has orange with a sky in the background.

Belief: The Shimmer is Real

She sits in a silent room, reading cards. Mattresses, cushions, and pieces of cloth-covered foam are evenly spread throughout the space like beds for 50 ghosts. The only things moving…

Two faces with a disco ball, stars, lightening, and futuristic elements

Silk, Slime, and Steam

I find art openings to be strange experiences. Silky tops, glasses in hand, crowds of people shifting positions, noise noise noise. It’s difficult to see the art, to focus into…

The word 'power' repeated over and over down the middle of the image, in red and in gold glitter layered on top of each other on a dark yellow background. One 'power' in the middle of the screen is brighter red.

A Power Note

I want to talk about power, the great enabler of so much negative so-called ‘asshole’ behavior. We are more aware than ever that power by domination through degradation is…

A photo of a person in a white blonde wig and a gray uniform. They are standing in a train car with blue seats, with their hand on the back of one seat facing the camera.

CLINIC: Dates, Doctors, Drag

These two poems were exchanged by lovers. The first is a phonetic poem that is situated within a dyslexia – some have found that reading it out loud helps. …

An image with a pink background and "Do I watch too much porn?" repeated in varying shades of red to pink glitter text

QUESTION OF ORGASM JUST FLOATING OUT

Editor’s note: This poem contains descriptions of violence. This hoarder documentary or the guy who leans over the balcony to watch me fuck my girlfriend in the ass…

Full-framed portrait of a woman with brown hair and red lipstick standing outside in the sun. She is smiling big and her eyes are squinting. In the background, there is a clear blue sky and folks hanging out recreationally on a grassy field with trees in the distance.

Jes Walsh on being a doula: care, queers, and reproductive rights

Jes Walsh is a zine-maker, the co-facilitator of the now-defunct queer space “Boys Club” in Berlin, and a doula. We asked Jes some questions about what it means to be…

A tableau of books, blocks, anal toys, plugs, beads and lube are arranged against a wall. One book has a view of someone’s bare behind with the title “ANAL PLEASURE & HEALTH” visible. Another title reads “BECAUSE WE LIKE IT HOT” overlaid on a book cover of someone’s thighs, butt, and torso in a top and underwear. Above a block, a pink pin stating “I [graphic of a butt plug] anal” rests against a bottle of lube.

How to Love the Butt (w)hole: Probing Deeper with Berlin’s Sex Educators, Part II

When COVEN BERLIN announced their ASSHOLES digital issue, I realized I had a lot of holes in my knowledge of the butt. I decided the best answers to my sensitive…

On a tabletop by a lit window and an indoor plant, seven brightly-colored dildos and anal toys all with flared-bases are placed on various coasters, blocks of wood, and CD cases. There is a framed print in red-ink behind the toys of a person and the “female” sign that reads “WE ARE IN CHARGE”.

How to Love the Butt (w)hole: Probing Deeper with Berlin’s Sex Educators, Part I

When COVEN BERLIN announced our ASSHOLES digital issue, I realized I had a lot of holes in my knowledge of the butt. I decided the best answers to my sensitive…

Installation view. In a completely blackened room, shards of light and the contours of a projector are visible. The light shards make various geometric shapes on surfaces in the room, none are distinct.

Room for Reflection

Within a globalized urban society connected by the means of the internet, there are few spaces and instances left that encourage us to turn our attention inward and introspect our…

Live performance documentation. In a dimly lit room with a black floor and veiled dark blue windows, four dancers in white t-shirts and diapers stand in a cluster, mostly with their backs to the camera, while another dancer facing forward, is semi illuminated by a spotlight on a white sheet behind them.

EARTHBOUND SQUATTERS

Watching shows, I often feel that the performers try to make me feel a certain way: to laugh, to cry, to be turned on, to be shocked, to feel catharsis….