Jia Sung 宋佳瑜

springtime garden monkey

So grateful to be embarking on this with the incredible @mearasharma and a very dreamy band of contributing editors and artists, incl. Jaquira Diaz, @amandathegunn, @jiazilla, @lmvandenberg, @ambernoelle, and other brilliant human beings. First issue coming at you in spring 2025.

19 fiction books by Palestinian authors: novels, short stories, and folktales. 1. My First and Only Love (2021) by Shahar Khalifeh. Nidal, an elderly exile, recounts the story when the 1948 Nakba scattered her family; a story of love and resistance from the eyes of a young girl.

Currently, the first train is being punched and bitten by a cat, causing delays in trains! We will resume operation once safety is confirmed!

my watercolor tutorial for @MuseumModernArt is now live! i paint hyacinths and chat about the pleasures of working from observation <3

STAY IN BED AND YELL

In this week’s podcast, Nigerian writer @BayoAkomolafe deconstructs old stories of colorism and puts forward “monstrosity” as a site to truly meet ourselves. Listen to “When You Meet the Monster, Anoint Its Feet.” emergencemagazine.org/podcast/ Illustration by @jiazilla.

Resituating race in the age of the Anthropocene, where the boundaries between human and nonhuman are porous and dynamic, @BayoAkomolafe invites us to rethink how we perceive ourselves and each other. Read this week’s newsletter. mailchi.mp/emergencemagaz… Illustration by @jiazilla.

designed this at midnight the night before it was due bc all my original directions got killed, still wish that type rag was better lol, all thanks to PS

Eat a lot so that you will have energy to fight with the orange cat.

Use the term “touch grass” to indicate that someone needs to seek out reality, use the term “touch moss” to indicate that they need to seek out ancient forest magic beyond their mortal comprehension.

sinθ #15 "MAGIC 魔" embraced the chaotic, the grotesque, and the unexplained. Artists featured in this issue include Jia Sung @jiazilla, Audrey Lee, Kenneth Lam, Natvipa Tejapaibul, and many more.
 You can purchase the issue here: blurb.com/b/10070696-sin…

I needed dahlia frog hotel today, so I imagine you might too twitter.com/FrogOnIG/statu…

NYC is limiting the hours when trash is taken out because of issues with rats, and it's genuinely hard to pick a favorite quote from today's presser Pick your fighter: