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🇨🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ | NYC 🌱⛅️
💌 [email protected] ⭐️ open for events + comms
🌈 online shop currently 20% off!
🔍 looking for a literary agent 💕

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🙏🏾 LP, Fam, thank you for joining us at Shifting Systems for Change: Celebrating the 2026 Create Change Fellowship! Together, we experienced just a glimpse of what's possible when neighbors come together, let creativity lead the way, and turn collective imagination into action.⁠
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A huge shoutout to our Board Member, Rasu Jilani, for joining Ayesha to facilitate such generative conversations about the role creativity can play in building our future. Our deepest gratitude to Weeksville Heritage Center for hosting us for the evening. ⁠
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Stay tuned for our Create Change Open Call next year for information on how to apply to join the 2028 Cohort!⁠
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🎉 Congratulations, 2026 Create Change Fellows! Welcome to The LP Fam.⁠
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Community Partners:⁠
@tranquility.farm.us⁠
@youngdoctorsproject⁠
@growhousebk⁠
@brooklyncoopfcu⁠
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Fellows: ⁠
@Salpal.c⁠
@Outofseam_⁠
@V_isforvic⁠
Nasrah_Omar⁠
@Tosinomojola⁠
@Reynaldorey⁠
@Jujuliana_a⁠
@CoralinaRodriguezMeyer⁠
@Mars.orbit⁠
@Idktallboy⁠
@vlkyink⁠
Shireen Mathews⁠

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have you ordered your tote yet? ***deadline for orders extended to Tuesday 10/13 bc we too love leaving things in the cart to marinate for a bit before ordering***

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🚨🚨 NEW FP TOTE NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER 🚨🚨 Support your favorite feminist publisher + look cool as hell while doing it! Pre-orders open until Sunday, October 11 or while supplies last.⁠
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This tote is inspired by Tereska Torres’s WOMEN’S BARRACKS—credited as the first candidly lesbian novel—which we reissued in the early 2000s as part of our Femmes Fatales series. Torres’s novel was denounced by the House Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials in 1952 as an example of how the paperback industry was “promoting moral degeneracy.” In spite of such efforts the novel became a record-breaking bestseller and inspired a whole new genre: lesbian pulp. ⁠
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Books like WOMEN’S BARRACKS offered subversive perspectives on a turbulent era, which we find to be extremely relevant today. We understand the experience of amplifying voices on the margins in the face of adversity, especially from the government. In 2025, our National Endowment for the Arts funding was terminated by the Trump Administration. That meant we we lost critical funding that was budgeted to support debut authors and works in translation. ⁠
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Whether it’s trolls on the internet who want us to make them a sandwich (seriously) or people who question why a “feminist” press needs to exist in 2026, we’re constantly faced with people who object to the work that we do. So we’re leaning into it! If “moral degeneracy” means creating books that depict the world we live in, we’re here for it. We see this tote as both a clap back and a call to arms 😈.⁠
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Designed by former FP apprentice Sally Chen! Sally Chen (they/she/he) is a queer, nonbinary, 2nd-generation Chinese American illustrator, muralist, and poet born & based in NYC.

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Our cat day schedule is here and we added some friends joining us to celebrate cats, culture and nature!!

Make sure you join in on the fun reading celebrating this beautiful illustrated book loving cats.

Reading by @jilliantamaki

Cats Crafts @ghoulishgals
Pet Portraits by @salpal.c
Migration in Beautiful Butterfly Drawing with @soniaalejandrawrites

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Globlord is a part of the @writeclubnyc this weekend! It is chock full of video game jargon that director @alexhad
and choregrapher @margo_e0 turned into a dance. Like if Club Penguin held a rave but instead of dancing we are performing complex dodge patterns and everyone hates each other and loves each other and is dressed in pajamas and we are all having a really difficult time making male friendships because everyone keeps
speaking
to
each
other
like
birds
and saying the R word but it’s normal for gamers, right? Am I being catfished?

I wrote this play based off found dialogue from raging gamers for an @alexhad bake-off, and am so awe-inspired by what this team has done with it that I reinstalled this app for the weekend. Pls send me cat reel. Ticket link in bio 🎟️. -Jason

GLOBLORD
Written by Jason Wang
Directed & Sound designed by @alexhad
Sawcy Show art and costume design by @salpal.c
Choregraphed by @margo_e0
Performed by:
@niraj00971
@jackventimilia
@p.sy_yoon
@jonongansukh
At @targetmargin theater with @writeclubnyc
From Aug 28-30

#theater #videogame #malefriendships😚❤️

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Hi y’all! @ridgewoodpopupmarket is back again tomorrow Saturday (15th) over at @barfreda801 and it going to be a beautiful day! Come soak some sun with us from 11-6pm, buy some cool shit, munch on some delicious empanadas from @consciouscolombianfood and have a fizzy beer at the bar 🍻

This month’s amazing poster is by @salpal.c so be sure to like and follow her work because is freaking adorable. 👩🏻‍🎨

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POSTERS ARE HERE!!! AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS TICKETS ARE LIVE FOR WRITE CLUB SUMMER PLAYFEST!! ☀️⛱️💋❕👙💗

Four chances to catch it August 28th, 29th, and 30th at @targetmargin in Sunset Park. Go see ——>

GIRLTAR CENTER written by @corigrams, and directed by @emhouseman

NE ME QUITTE PAS written by @chrisgonzalez.nyc and directed by @adribollinger

GLOBLORD written by @flybippo , and Directed by @alexhad, poster design by @salpal.c

TRAILER TREASURE written by @bellacvengros, directed by @vivianfarahani

INFINITE LEG written by @annierasiel, and directed by @katyearlybird

Last year’s run sold out, and we’ll have very limited door tickets, so don’t wait on this one!! Grab your tickets now, link in bio.

See you there.
XOXO, WRITE CLUB

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Welcome to our August/September creative resident, @salpal.c / Sally Chen!

Sally Chen (they/she/he) is a queer, nonbinary, 2nd-generation Chinese American illustrator, muralist, and poet born & based in NYC. Their work explores the quiet intimacies that occur in daily life. They utilize free-flowing lines, vibrant colors, glowing silhouettes, bits of verse, and portraiture to capture the many fleeting moments of joy and sorrow that keep us yearning for another day, and consequently, a brighter future. They illustrated the children's book "A Song For Nolan", written by Rushie Ellenwood, led one of the murals on the 31st Avenue Open Streets (the mural with the animals right in front of Fresh One Deli), and are a current Create Change Fellow under the Laundromat Project.

We'll have Sally's work on display through September -- please come and see their prints, stickers, and zines!

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So honored that I got to present my love and partner @corinne_ang_ for “Pride in Community” outdoor exhibit during Pride Month with @artsgowanus + @oldstonehousebklyn + Brooklyn Pride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 Sad it’s over, but happy that it happened 🙂‍↕️ Thank you to everyone who came out and supported me 😚

And also even better that I got to showcase with my dear friend @salpal.c 🥹

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Now available for pre-order! GAME IS HER MIDDLE NAME: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF BETTY DAVIS by Danielle Maggio ✨️ on shelves February 9, 2027! The first full biography of the funk pioneer cited as an inspiration by artists from Beyoncé to Questlove.⁠
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As a girl, Betty Davis fixed her eyes on stardom and never looked back. After leaving a violent marriage to her husband Miles Davis, Betty took unprecedented control of her musical career for a Black woman working in the 1970s, performing and producing a string of defiantly feminist funk records with a screaming, sexually intense style like no one else. And then, at the crest of her powers, she fell silent.

Built on decades of interviews and told through the eyes of Danielle Maggio, Davis’s close friend in her final years, GAME IS HER MIDDLE NAME reveals new aspects of Davis’s life, music, and struggles. In telling her story, Maggio gives us a nuanced portrait of what happens to a pathbreaking artist when the spotlight moves on from her, and what happens when the world finally catches up.⁠
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Danielle Maggio is a writer, professor, and vinyl DJ based in Pittsburgh, PA. She received her PhD in ethnomusicology at the University of Pittsburgh and is currently an adjunct professor at Duquesne University and University of Pittsburgh where she teaches courses on world music and global pop. She is the liner notes author for Light in the Attic’s 2023 rereleases of Betty Davis’s albums Betty Davis, They Say I’m Different, and Crashin’ from Passion.
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Cover credit: photo by Fin Costello/Redferns via Getty Images, text design by Sally Chen, and design by Drew Stevens ⭐️⁠
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IS IT FEBRUARY 2027 YET?!?!?

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what I’ve been up to this summer 🍉⚓️🍦

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Tender Tongues, a Full Stop Magazine quarterly, edited by Natália Affonso, is now available!

Natália shared that after working on some translations, “the multiplicity of meanings around tenderness began to inform the way she thinks about how we relate as humans, about how we communicate: from our physical tongues to multiple languages, from the literal to the metaphorical.”

Essays by Myriam J. A. Chancy, [sarah] Cavar, Lucas de Lima, and by tatiana nascimento, translated by Jess Oliveira.

An interview by Alton Melvar M Dapanas with Noeme Grace C. Tabor-Farjani.

Book reviews by Annaya Baynes (The Rage Letters by Valérie Bah, translated from French by Kama La Mackerel), Claire Foster (The Joyful Song of the Partridge by Paulina Chiziane, translated from Portuguese by David Brookshaw), Fernanda Vieira (Thunder Song: Essays by Sasha LaPointe), and by Yasmin Desouki (River in An Ocean: Essays on Translation, edited by Nuzhat Abbas).

Visual art by Sally Chen.

Get the full issue today: full-stop.net

📔: @nataliaaffonsolit, @myriamjachancy, @salpal.c, @annayareads, @cavarchives, @dreamcremevision, @tatiananascivento, @afrekette, @clairefoster, @vieirafell.

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