CURIOUS Magazine, Volume 4 No.4 | SPRING 2023

Empathy + Sexuality

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Staff Writer: Samuel Signer

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Journalistic Photography by Bianca Ustrell

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Branding by Nicholas Aceves

In this issue:

Nicholas Aceves

An interview with the cover artist

The They/Them Project

AJ Schnettler

Courtney Heidorn

strawberry summer

tide pool

milky

glittered joy

siren

RUNA

CHEMICAL

Vanessa Cristal Villalobos

SIR SAID,

SURRENDER YOURSELF

Mandar Parab

Andrea Simpson

Annette Back

Madeleine Simmons

Miguel Esparza

Little Pots

Roxanne Espinoza

Ana Everhart

Vivien Solveig

Charlie Quintero

Kate Tatsumi

Dakota Noot

Zoe Valentine

Effren Castro

pov: you’re the man i’m talking to on grindr

i want u 2 fuck the existential crisis out of me

residue

crucifixion

Kathy Crabbe

Toria Maldonado

Sarah Eckstine

B. Elae

Til Doomsday Art

Scotty Escobar

Allyson Libao

Arzu Kastal

Matt Garcia-Ramirez

Rosy Cortez

Jessie Welch

Julie Flores

Amber Lauder

Gemma JG

Kiru Kona

Brandon Avalos

Caitlin Walton

kaden ezra umaña zaldumbide

Vincent Villalpando

Steven W. Bielak

Soara Collira

Serena Martin

Girl on Mars

Bumblebee

Falling in love in a coffee shop

You are magic.

Dreams

Nancy Martin

Keely Shinners

Keith Ballard