BlackStar Projects, SEEN Issue 002

Publisher: BlackStar Projects
Year: 2021
Pages: 238

Guest-edited by curator, writer, and editor Dessane Lopez Cassell, Seen’s second issue includes essays, reviews, interviews, original art and photography, and more. The issue features a wide range of voices, including strong representation of Caribbean creatives, across writers and subjects.

“As each piece in this issue exemplifies, this work of carving out space is both transformative and integral to Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities around the world.” writes Lopez Cassell in her introduction to the issue. “It is often quiet, slow, spiritual, and perhaps most importantly, it is ongoing.”

Highlights from the second issue of Seen include Razan Al-Salah on queer, anticolonial filmmaking, Karas Lamb in conversation with Questlove, Lakshmi Padmanabhan on Minari & American-ness, Astria Suprak’s visual essay on science fiction, futurity, and Asian material culture, a review of Liborio by Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, and a behind-the-scenes look at photographer and artist Rikkí Wright’s Los Angeles studio. The cover story features filmmaker Keisha Rae Witherspoon’s script for T, accompanied by an original introduction.