“I am fucking a stranger in a room full of strangers,” reads the first line of one of the opening sex testimonies in Ladybeard, a magazine that does nothing by half-measures, least of all tip-toeing around taboos. Shock is rare these days, but it takes being faced with a certain kind of candour to realise we are often shocked by things we shouldn’t be and indifferent to those that should rouse us. The hot pink vibrator on the cover of Ladybeard will, I imagine, catch more than a few off guard, but that is precisely the point. Why, when the media is more sexualised than ever, should a statement of female pleasure raise eyebrows?
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Strange and wonderful posters by artist and designer Michael Boswell
Brooklyn-based Michael Boswell’s posters are hard to define, sitting somewhere between fine art and design they are incredibly well executed and highly entertaining. Graphic linework and cigarettes masquerading as patterns, a declaration of feminist revolutions “per minute” and a hot dog welcoming viewers with open arms form the personal practice of the designer whose day job is on the creative team for Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles at Nickelodeon.
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