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The Latino Arts of Long Island Organization

By Tabitha Batu-Tiako

This Present Moment used to be the Unimaginable Future

By Chiara Ansioso

The Art of Hands

By Kiersten White, Sydney Holton, and Nicole Dees Dance performances and choreography by Sydney Holton and Kiersten White. Videography and editing by Nicole Dees. By using our hands, we are able to tell stories across language, time, and cultures through gestures and body language. Dance is another way we use

Unity Forever Held

By Morgan Stoermer Video essay with original photos by Morgan Stoermer. Taken at the New York City Women's March held on March 25, 2025. We use our hands to fight. Not in violence, but in declaration. Our hands hold the pens we use to write. Our hands turn

Hands Too Heavy to Hold

By Blue Dampf Lately, I feel like every hand I touch turns to stone. It’s as if the warmth I mean to offer somehow stiffens into pressure. I reach out wanting to hold, to soothe, to connect. And yet, all I seem to do is solidify what was once

What Does Home Mean To You?

By Allyson Cabreza and Brittany Enos We use our hands to fight. Not in violence, but in declaration. Our hands hold the pens we use to write. Our hands turn to fists as a sign of support, resistance and power. Our hands hold signs and posters. Posters that share, encourage,

Holding Hands Across Time

By Leah Lederman Holding Hands Across Time0:00/53.3573331× This experimental audio piece is a reflection of how different generations continue to be represented and carried on by future generations. I used my great grandfather's interview done by the Shoah project about his life experience as a

What a Shame!

By Emma Winton Single- Listen on Jumpshare

On Being a Bum

For the fortunately restless By Elise Uhlar For my entire life, I have suffered from the sort of restlessness for which there is no cure, and only one prescribed form of management. Last spring, this condition would begin to claw at my mind’s tender corpus. New York I love

Of Hands and Human Things

By Maura Strickland This piece connects to the theme of hands by exploring how they embody connection within human nature.

Turtles don’t have hands

By Meredith Kelly

Ink Stains of Liberation

Tattooing Palestine’s Resistance in NYC By Peyton Weeks Inside a small tattoo studio, the atmosphere is filled with creativity and purpose. An artist, dressed in all black attire, a blue bandana, and adorned with tattoos, leans over a client, their hands moving with care and precision as they bring

On not Re-Reading

By Ben Schlotman I will never re-read A Prayer for Owen Meany. I have only fond memories of my bony eighth-grader’s hands turning the thin pages, taking in every word, every scene, every 1950s cultural reference I didn’t understand. In the immediate aftermath of reading it, for at

My Flowers that Never Die

By Emma Johnson Photographs of my flower collection that grows over time, just not in length. They were made through crochet, which is my favorite art form because it keeps my hands busy, relieving my stress. Crocheting is the ultimate artistic medium to me because it acts as both a

Somewhere In-Between

By Abigail Abbott-White My hands are working hard to make a difference— yet seem to land somewhere in-between, to where they are and where they have always been. My hands plucked debris off of Rockaway’s shores, mindfully searching for every colorful speck. Some you may recognize, some you may

Issue Six: Hands

The Hand Women Play in Art

By Sydni Pollard On the fourth floor of the spacious New York Historical Museum where the Center for Women’s History is located, lives the Gallery of Tiffany Lamps. It shows the development of Tiffany’s Studios and the women who played a major part in its innovation. It sheds

Issue Six: Hands

You're Safe Here

Exploring family of choice through memorable messages in LGBTQA+ young adulthood By Tristan Arthur & Jenny Dixon Abstract The re-election of Donald Trump has made the need for LGBTQA+ young adults to seek out support systems, such as chosen family, all the more pressing. This article explores the discursive strategies

Issue Six: Hands

The Anti-Aesthetic

By Sydney Holton Southern Gothic Realized The genre of Southern Gothic has recently made its way into Gen-Z mainstream popular culture with the resurgence of young people finding comfort and solace within the themes this genre presents. In the face of a conservative turn the nation is taking, young people

Issue Six: Hands

Florida Future Leaders: Next Gen of Democrats at UF

By Angelina Ispir “We’re young. We’re here.” Inside look at FFL and how they’ve delivered support systems to empower young democratic voters in Florida state—particularly for college Democrats at the University of Florida. When looking at Florida’s political engagement throughout history, the state has always

Issue Six: Hands

Collage: The Riot is Reborn in Black Women

By Peyton Weeks

Issue Six: Hands

Are You Writing This Down?

By Emily Roche How do you navigate academic barriers and pressures while still finding a space for creativity? The more involved I get in my education, the more difficult it feels to find room for my art. Dancing in an academic environment requires a complicated juxtaposition of committing to technical

Issue Six: Hands

The Body Remembers What Words Cannot

By John Hall This three-drawing series reimagines film photographs from my early childhood, taken by my mother, capturing moments of being held by her. Using chalk pastel on toned paper, the drawings center hands as symbols of care, structure, and generational labor. Within the context of this call, the gesture

Issue Six: Hands

Little Sister

By Abby Vazquez There are two men walking around somewhere in the world who had me as their little sister for seven years. I only got to see them sometimes when they were my older brothers. Sometimes our dad would pick me up and take me to their house in

Issue V: Maps

Bedford Hills Image as Power Animation + Poems

Image as Power Animation + Poems Crossing Borders 2024 with captions from Marymount Manhattan College on Vimeo.

Issue V: Submissions OPEN

TwoTwoOne.NYC Issue V asks how have your pathways shaped you? Where do you come from and where are you going? What runs through your veins and breathes life into who you are? What makes your creativity flow? Did you push your dreams aside for practicality? What does your map