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Queer Comfort - Urban Omnibus Plants in a Staten Island garden — and the communities that sustain them — bloom in genders beyond binaries.

My final piece as a New City Critics fellow at the Architectural League of New York and Urban Design Forum is now live! 🌱

Wrote about how the Alice Austen House is using their Queer Ecologies Garden to educate and protect Staten Island's queer youth 🍄

urbanomnibus.net/2025/07/quee...

69. Botanical Reliquary Let’s plant some seeds of wonder.

thinking like a leaf for this month’s newsletter 🌱 open.substack.com/pub/screensh...

Hey! Wanna Hang? — Speed Dating

First time on the other side of the interview ~*

Got to chat about South Florida scent memories, learning to love perfume through olfactory art, teaching on the Internet, and what I'm wearing these days

heywannahang.com/meet-ellie/

Also on Substack: heywannahang.substack.com/p/hey-have-y...

no you don’t understand the academy museum exclusive john waters cockroach baggu print is everything to me 🩷🪳

68. Laborious Reliquary I'm sick of thinking about work.

a new post for International Workers Day ✊🏻📈 open.substack.com/pub/screensh...

went to the sketch egg pod bathroom and everyone knew you 🥚

Repost a pic and your age ✨

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trip to london in bookstores 📚

in london for a week you know what that means

forever grateful that @eroscestlavie.bsky.social’s roman empire is jeremy fragrance as recession indicator

Wrote about the Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans show at @metmuseum.org for the Brooklyn Rail and how both photographers capture the Sunshine State’s beautiful contradictions 🐊

(Will also take any opportunity to quote @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social on Florida)

brooklynrail.org/2025/03/arts...

Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (2001)

Mulholland Drive (2001)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Twin Peaks (1990)

Wild At Heart (1990)

The Lynchian Manicure On red nail polish, David Lynch, and the violence of femininty

Wrote sbout mourning David Lynch and how the red manicures in his movies reflect resistance against the Aemrican patriarchy and decaying dreams of Hollywood glamour ☕️❣️

open.substack.com/pub/screensh...

got to attend my second (ever!) presentstion during nyfw this season 🧵 was obsessed with this layering of textures, thread, patchwork, and found objects

brand is JRAT by Janelle Abbott

focuses on zero waste sustainable pieces and supporting living wages for garment workers

snow in nyc got me feeling like i’m in an episode of severance

SOTD: Baby Boy by Amphora Parfum

Grape juice, wildflowers, candied peach, baby powder, and civet. Wore it for my birthday today. For when you don’t want to grow up, and when you don’t want a lovely day to end.

#scentoftheday

work fit check 🐑

thinking about David Lynch’s lesser-known project of making sculptural lamps, which were shown in a 2022 exhibition at Pace Gallery

in his own words: "Turn on the light and the darkness goes. Turn up that light of pure consciousness: Negativity goes."

RIP

finished my second-ever project 🧶

SOTD: Death of a Ladies Man by Universal Flowering

Had the last little bit of a sample left. Basil, violet, galbanum. A crisp green to complement the blustery chill of New York City today.

#scentoftheday

just a girl and her nosferatu coffin popcorn tin against the world

66. Micro Reliquary IX What's keeping me sane and entertained during this chaotic holiday season

a little end-of-year newsletter gift from me to you 🎁 open.substack.com/pub/screensh...

merry nosferatu to all those who celebrate 🐀🕯️🕸️🩸

trying not to accidentally send one of those ⛄️❄️🫦 MERRY DICKMAS SLUTS 😛🎄💦 chain texts to my family members