I think it’s fair to say that a lot of your work falls under the category of satire. And something that I’ve seen people talk about since 2016 is the ways in which satire has become more difficult in the Trump years because it seems hard to outdo the world. Is that something that you…
As a designer of women’s clothing for 15 years, Simone Rocha has been committed to presenting a version of womanhood that subverts traditional feminine tropes, a practice she calls “pretty and perverse.” But as the culture reaches its peak “masculinity crisis” moment, Rocha, 39, is now turning more of her attention to men’s wear —…
Thousands of young African men have signed up to fight in Moscow’s war against Ukraine. Some have posted cheerful videos with Russian soldiers. But many others say they were deceptively lured to Russia and then coerced into signing military contracts. Many have been killed on the battlefield. Though Africa is thousands of miles from the…
