We're addressing today's issues, beginning in New York City and extending worldwide.
For our 16th issue, we lay everything out. We look at the things that keep New Yorkers on edge, from the rise of AI and growing violence to, cultural influences changing the music and fashion sectors. We're also looking outside our city's borders to a country on the verge of collapse, where dysfunctional institutions are destroying communities and politicians are more concerned with ego than the people they serve.
We are criticizing, we are forcing accountability and, we are calling out the decisive speech and policies that continue to tarnish America’s potential. We are disrupting the regularly scheduled program to bring you our honest thoughts, feelings, and judgments.
At 47Magazine & Media, we’re here to report, analyze, and challenge the current quo. Here's to the artists, activists, and everyone who refuses to back down.
Let's get loud. It’s time for a 47Defiance.
-BARK
As we sit on our phones and watch political, legal, environmental, and personal turmoil- many of us ask ‘What can I do?’.
What is a step I can take to help something, to live by my moral objections and reference this pain in a productive way for change, rather than desensitizing and ignoring what is happening around us? Living in New York City allows us to start locally and make a huge impact. That was the inspiring spark for this issue.
As the 47 team, Mark, and I learn and grow we realize this platform can be an outlet for our writers, staff, and readers to voice their opinions and outrage. This issue takes note of the surreal juxtaposition of living in post-modern NYC, where the imperfections of our system slap us in the face every day, and yet we live on, and yet, we find beauty and joy through cracks of despair and exhaustion, and yet we make art.
I hope you all find refuge in the love, effort, and emotion put into Issue 16.
-Sophia
Illustration by Nico Diaz