Essays
A letter from your editors
By
·Maria Dimitrova and Haley Mlotek
October 16th, 2024
Issue 1: Pursuit of Happiness
AFM’s inaugural issue, themed Pursuits of Happiness, explores all facets of what it means to reach for joy, pleasure, satisfaction, grace, desire—or whatever other euphemism comes to mind when you think of what it means to be in pursuit, or to be happy, or both—as well as the experience of feeling these concepts most acutely in their absence.
Interviews with Juliana Huxtable, Bruce LaBruce & Susanna Moore.
Prose by Hanif Abdurraqib, Emanuele Coccia, Maya Fuhr, Jazmine Hughes, James Ivory, Ana Kirova, Ellis Jackson Kroese, Sophie Mackintosh, Sarah Thankam Mathews, Daphne Merkin, Justin Smith-Ruiu, Merritt Tierce, Tony Tulathimutte, Fan Wu, and Mimi Zhu.
Fiction by Ashani Lewis, Michael Barron, Lucie Elven, Madeleine Dunnigan.
Poetry by Hera Lindsay Bird, Jason Schneiderman, Delilah McCrea, Rachel Long, and Nick Makoha.
Art by Walter Scott, Maya Fuhr, Max Guther, Marie Jacotey, Tyler Kai Jones, Bruce LaBruce, Isabel Okoro, Heather Sten, Matilde Viegas et al; cover by Charlie Engman.
Regimes of Happiness
On Stanley Cavell and Hollywood’s romantic legacy.
The Erotics of Unhappiness
“Is there really no sexual excitement without at least a frisson, a pleasurable ache?” asks Daphne Merkin, a writer whose decades-long career may very well center on this very question.
Homesexual by Emanuele Coccia
Homesexual is a column devoted to interiors and interiorities. For the first installment, Emanuele Coccia considers what homes are, and what our experience of moving says about how we love.
Ten Thousand Ways of Going Both Ways
ByFan Wu
Four men—and a chorus of masculine voices—share their histories with bisexuality and experiences as Feeld Members.
Back to Palm Springs
Long before Call Me By Your Name and his prolific career as one half of Merchant Ivory, James Ivory escaped the temperamental Oregonian winters for the desert. Here, he revisits his adolescent sojourns in Palm Springs, a site of a sensual coming-of-age
Other Archives
Otherness Archive is an open-access online library gathering moving image works by and for the transmasculine community. Here, they present a collection of film stills from their catalog, along with an essay by Ellis Kroese.
No Abortion Show
The acclaimed author of "Love Me Back" and a writer of "Orange is the New Black" shares her decades-long timeline of trying to make a television series about abortion.
Creeps
Perhaps you’ve felt attraction, or attracted others in return—but have you ever felt like a creep? Don’t turn away. Allow Tony Tulathimutte to lead you on a descent into the underbelly of romantic pursuit.
The Curse
“When I decided to write about sex, I decided to write about everything that is generally taboo.” Susanna Moore and Allison P. Davis discuss writing towards what too often goes unsaid.
Will the revolution make us happy?
“Happiness is not thinking, it’s acting.” Bruce LaBruce talks pierced nipples, the revolutionary moment, and scandalizing the nation of Spain.
The Feeld Guide to Making Your Own Latex
If you’ve been considering taking your latex fetish to new heights, let Maya Fuhr show you how to DIY your next fit.
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