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“Girlhood, Breillat’s films hold, is a warzone, and what is said to follow in the so-called happily ever after — marriage, motherhood, and (god forbid) aging — is no salvation, far from it.”
For Issue 16, Jamie Hood reviews I Only Believe in Myself, a book that draws on conversations between film critic Murielle Joudet and filmmaker Catherine Breillat.
Read it now online or get the print issue on our website.
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“My conversations are smoothing out. I’m having fewer debates about AI. Is it just my IF YOU TALK TO ME ABOUT AI I WILL KILL MYSELF T-shirt? I worry that it’s because people have so thoroughly integrated AI into their lives that they don’t think about it anymore.”
For Issue 16, Lux editor Natalie Adler delves into the “smoothing out of the American body, face, and mind” through generative AI and wellness cults.
Read it now online or get the print issue on our website.
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“SSENSE developed a reputation as a super cool innovator that changed the global landscape of luxury e-commerce, boosting its reputation with gestures toward social awareness and the pretense of intellectual caché….But as one of my sources noted, ’What was happening in the workplace was in complete opposition to what was being promoted on the website.’”
For Issue 16, Chelsea Rozansky spoke with 15 current and former SSENSE employees about labor abuses at the company including discrimination, wage theft, and the risk of being crushed under towering bins of Gucci.
Read it now online or get the print issue on our website.
Bored by your umpteenth conversation about facelifts? Eyes glazing over at yet another AI ad? Does being a feminist mean holding your tongue and smoothing your forehead? Join Lux for a panel on the smoothing out of the American body and mind. Death to Looksmaxxing, long live Luxmaxxing!
Happy May Day to the unionizing abortion workers, taxi drivers, nurses, and strippers! Read these four selections highlighting labor struggle, and get ready for issue 16 – online next week.
What Drives Bhairavi Desai?
The New York Taxi Workers Alliance flexes in the rideshare era.
Can Unions Help Planned Parenthood Meet the Abortion Crisis?
With reproductive care under fire and underfunded, workers make their case.
Strip Down, Rise Up
On the picket line with dancers in North Hollywood.
“They’re Leaving Nurses Out to Hang”
The struggle to care for patients when no one knows what’s legal.
Honor the movement that brought you the weekend with this anti-work hoodie.
In Issue 16, Jamie Hood reviewed I Only Believe in Myself, a book that draws on conversations between Murielle Joudet and Catherine Breillat.
Joudet walked into these conversations with “the arrogance of a critic,” only to continually run into the “monstrous wall” of Breillat’s intellect. What ensues is a chronological discussion of Breillat’s filmography and the very French auteur’s commitment to the unfilmable parts of girlhood — shame, transgression, disgust, barbarism.
Join Lux for a return of our popular book club, this time on I Only Believe in Myself. Hood, author of Trauma Plot: A Life, will lead the discussion of Breillat’s deformed ethics and uncompromising artistry, along with Lux editor Michelle Santiago Cortés.
The book club is free for subscribers and will meet on Wednesday, June 24 at 7:00pm ET over Zoom. Sign up with the link in our bio by Wednesday, May 13. We’ll share a discount code to order the book from our friends at Firestorm Books.
OUT NOW: ISSUE 16
This issue has it all: investigation into SSENCE's fashion prison, gay guy feminism, sex worker opsec, the rise and fall of the millennial PMC, and an inside look at ICE court watchers. Get it now by subscribing on our website. Use code PARTY at checkout for 15% off, for a limited time only
Featuring:
Kim Kelly @kimkellywriter
Tanvi Misra @tanvim27
Honey Live @itshoneylive
Natalie Adler @natalie.and.chester
Lylla Younes
Nour Abdel Latif @nourgaza
Chelsea Rozansky @chelsea.grrl
Sarah Leonard @sarahrlnrd
Carta Monir @yourgirlfriendcarta
Jamie Hood @veryhotmommm
Hal Schrieve @howlmarin
Kristen Martin @kwistent
Aditya Gandhi
& Sepideh Moafi @sepidehmoafi
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👁️✨ we're proud to announce the launch of Lux’s 16th issue! ✨👁️
Join us for a launch party on May 8 at the Francis Kite Club, our beloved bar-office, with a special happy hour 6pm-8pm. And to celebrate Lux’s 5th birthday, we’ll have a very special cake.
Our new issue has it all: an investigation into labor abuses at SSENSE, a probe into whether we’re Botoxing our brains with AI, reports from court watching ICE, a searing and timely report on drone warfare in Lebanon, an essay on the fall and rise of the PMC, and much much more. Come meet the authors and artists, have some cake, and hang with the Lux editors.
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"The Bundest idea of solidarity across difference is something that’s very natural in New York City, because we live with people who are so different from each other in every way, and we have to organize together in order to have any sort of decent life."
For the latest Lux for Life newsletter, editor-in-chief Sarah Leonard interviews contributing editor Molly Crabapple about the Jewish Bund and her new book, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund.
Subscribe to the newsletter on our website, and read the full interview there. And join us on Monday, April 13 at 7pm at the Brooklyn Public Library for a conversation about the book with Molly and Palestinian author Ibtisam Azem. VIRTUAL ROOM ONLY - WE'RE ALL SOLD OUT (link in bio)
Join us for the launch of Sara Ahmed’s new book, No! The Art and Activism of Complaining, published by Feminist Press. Speaking as a bad feminist and a feminist killjoy, Sara — in conversation with Roxane Gay — will share reflections on how and why we need to say no as boldly, creatively and collectively as we can.
Register at the link in our bio 👁️
