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Howl, New York (2016–2019)

Founded in 2016 by Julia De La Torre, Howl, New York ran as a digital magazine for three years, dedicated to art, culture, and conversations around sex and gender education.

The name drew inspiration from Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, and the site carried the same spirit: uninhibited, bold, resistant, loving, and unapologetically curious. Through essays, poetry, and over 50 exclusive interviews with artists, it became a space for creatives and readers to meet at the intersection of art and provocative ideas.

Though Howl, New York is no longer publishing new work, the archive remains — still visited daily, still read, and still resonant. It stands as a record of the spirited, restless, and searching energy that shaped its pages between 2016 and 2019.

Howl, New York lives on as an archive.

This movie singlehandedly changed the way I perceived filmmaking when I was young 🥀
The feminine sensibility can be felt all the way through every shot. I saw myself in hypochondriac anxiety-ridden paranoid Cléo and didn’t feel like such an alien.
Thank u Agnes for bringing us complex female characters and beautiful movies 📽🎞 #AgnesVarda #film #cleofrom5to7

Grab your antidepressants n ur coffee. Treat yourself w kindness. Lean on your loved ones. The only way out is through 🧡
Via @aly_nagel by @subliming.jpg
#gentlereminder #mentalillnessawareness #mentalhealth #sobriety

Happy PRIDE! 🌈🤓 If you remain ignorant about the gender spectrum– sex vs gender vs sexual orientation– dont be afraid to read up on it!! It it a super interesting subject that opens your mind and heart up🌈💫🦋 stay safe and be proud !! Art by the amazing @thejohnnysmith

Anthony Bourdain wrote: "Americans love Mexican food. We consume nachos, tacos, burritos, tortas, enchiladas, tamales and anything resembling Mexican in enormous quantities. We love Mexican beverages, happily knocking back huge amounts of tequila, mezcal, and Mexican beer every year. We love Mexican people—we sure employ a lot of them. Despite our ridiculously hypocritical attitudes towards immigration, we demand that Mexicans cook a large percentage of the food we eat, grow the ingredients we need to make that food, clean our houses, mow our lawns, wash our dishes, and look after our children. As any chef will tell you, our entire service economy—the restaurant business as we know it—in most American cities, would collapse overnight without Mexican workers. Some, of course, like to claim that Mexicans are “stealing American jobs.” But in two decades as a chef and employer, I never had ONE American kid walk in my door and apply for a dishwashing job, a porter’s position—or even a job as a prep cook. Mexicans do much of the work in this country that Americans, probably, simply won’t do.

We love Mexican drugs. Maybe not you personally, but “we”, as a nation, certainly consume titanic amounts of them—and go to extraordinary lengths and expense to acquire them. We love Mexican music, Mexican beaches, Mexican architecture, interior design, Mexican films.

So, why don’t we love Mexico?

We throw up our hands and shrug at what happens and what is happening just across the border. Maybe we are embarrassed. Mexico, after all, has always been there for us, to service our darkest needs and desires. Whether it’s dress up like fools and get passed-out drunk and sunburned on spring break in Cancun, throw pesos at strippers in Tijuana, or get toasted on Mexican drugs, we are seldom on our best behavior in Mexico. They have seen many of us at our worst. They know our darkest desires.

In the service of our appetites, we spend billions and billions of dollars each year on Mexican drugs—while at the same time spending billions and billions more trying to prevent those drugs from reaching us. The effect on our society is everywhere to be seen.” 1/4

Come join us this Saturday 06/16 for the Disenfranchised photo-book release party by the amazing Dierra Bynum-Reid (@_aesthetixx) ! Featurin a poppin Kool-Aid bar 🍒💫📷 Free admission, DM us for more details. Swipe to see address + location —

DISENFRANCHISED vol. 1 is the beginning of an exploration into cultural phenomenons and styles that are cultivated by marginalized groups of people but are often praised only on people of privilege. This first issues looks at the beauty and finesse of black and brown women and trends that have effortlessly come about due to their artistic expression. The book also discusses Black Women as a major political power despite being extremely oppressed by systems in place, with the essay “Politically Charged: How Black Women Continue to Show Up For Those Who Do Not Show Out for Them. The goal of this book is to celebrate, inform, and hopefully create some change in perspective as well as in the community with 40% of the Proceeds being donated to Girls for Gender Equity. Follow @dis_books for more.

@juliadelatore Illustrated the cutest lil zine for the WYSE ( Women and Youth Supporting Each Other @wysenyu) program with @killerandasweetthang @disco__bitch 💞🌈 Love is love & it takes so many beautiful forms.
WYSE is an organization thar connects college women with middle school girls in after-school programs and explore topics such as sexual health, body positivity and identity.

Sometimes its extra hard to get my ass out of bed cuz its super comfy but these words by @yrsadaleyward help💫

@mr._iozo is one of my favorite artists on Instagram💫

Tag some of your favorite artists below so I can check them out!

13 tips to boost your mental health🌿

#12 Take your meds 〰️
Whether its whole foods, traveling, self-care, exercising, reiki, tarot, good music, doing art, or taking actual medication– take your meds! As in, do what works for you. If you've found that a certain cocktail of antidepressants works wonders for you, be diligent in taking it. If eating blueberries makes you the happiest person on the planet, you do that. Identify the small (or big) things that help you achieve a healthy state of mind and stick to them.

Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt personally victimized by eurocentric beauty standards ✨🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏿‍♀️ (@sdirshe @greenboxshop @okaysoblog)

In love with the pots by @potyertitsawayluv 🌿✨#NEED

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