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We live in an inflexible world. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, rapists evade accountability, and the police kill Black, Indigenous, and Latinx people with relative impunity. Our conditions create a sense that the inflexibility of our world is its constant condition, incapable of bending into something beyond what it has always known and reinforced. The Plastic issue considers what the material itself can teach us about plasticity or the process of molding something new. Whether discussing credit card debt and imposter syndrome or decriminalizing sex work and giving immigrants the rights they deserve, we are consider what it means to survive a world that refuses to bend and how we can coax a new one into being.
Select work in this issue:
Owe Really: Financial Advice Ignores the Shared Reality of Debt
Katherine D. Morgan
14
Toys Are Us: Unlocking Trauma through Classic Trinkets
Alaina Leary
16
Refresh and Rebuild: Plotting the Future of New York’s Most Conservative Borough
Andrea Ruggirello
18
The Audacity of Confidence: Is It Imposter Syndrome or Is It Patriarchy?
Adrienne Lawrence
22
Ready For Those Jellies: The Shoe That Became Both Cheap Luxury and Status Symbol
Brooklyn White
30
Terms of Service: Inside Social Media’s War on Sex Workers
Reina Sultan
36
Stacked Deck: The True Costs of Breast Implants
Michelle Polizzi
40
Headhunters: Are Psychedelics Capitalism’s New Productivity Hack?
Nora Salem
44
Waste Land: For Migrants, Water Bottles Are a Matter of Life and Death
Barbara Sostaita
50
Super Saturated: Amina Mucciolo Sits Atop the Rainbow Curve
Mary Retta
64
No Way Up: Kathy Wang’s Impostor Syndrome Is a Tech World Satire
Adwoa Afful
72
Cerulean Blues: The Devil Wears Prada Fashions a Cautionary Tale
Sarah Rosenthal
78
Queen Shit: Lil’ Kim Celebrates 25 Years As Rap’s OG Doll
Fullamusu Bangura
84
