Aperture #259 2025 - Liberated Threads curating this engaging and accessible book

this engaging and accessible book is structured as a dramatic story that traces the contours of Appia’s life—his personal circumstances

Aftermath chronicles the perilous journey as the author redefines herself and creates a new version of family life for her daughters

You stand outside yourself and a god enters you

grungy photographs of iconic models of the 1990s

Aperture #259 2025 - Liberated Threads curating this engaging and accessible bookExploring fashion and style as a political language and tool of resistance in the African diaspora. Apertures Summer issue highlights image makers around the world who are exploring style and fashion as a language of Black resistance, refusal, and joy. Guest edited by the writer and researcher Tanisha C. Ford and titled after her 2015 book, Liberated Threads, this edition features photographers, stylists, and filmmakers who remix, reimagine, and in