issue 6
// art
Title: Surgical Liberation // Artist: Sagewing
about the piece
| I created Surgical Liberation digitally, and wrote the phrase “I will excise that which oppresses me, and my flesh will finally know true liberation” as both a promise and a chant to ward off despair. The scalpel serves two purposes: the literal liberation of the flesh through gender affirming surgery, and as a metaphorical instrument excising hatred and bigotry from society. |
about the artist // Sagewing
| Sagewing is an illustrator and art student based in New York. His works primarily center around what it means to live as a queer person in modern America, the furry fandom, mental health, and having come of age in the era of social media and internet culture. In his spare time he stares out of windows, cooks a mean grilled cheese, and dotes on his three-legged twenty pound housecat. |
Instagram: @sagew.ing
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