The artists featured in this issue form a particular kind of river—one that celebrates building individual agency through channels of collective support and discourse. Lineage and histories of thought flow to support these artists’ work of anatomizing dogmatic and limiting narratives, reinventing structures in the process—pushing always toward something new. Articles on Raul Guerrero’s Deflated Mythologies, virtual care lab's online community, and Nao Bustamante’s redesign of the speculum. Plus a conversation with Tongva artist L. Frank on preserving histories and portraits of Yves B. Golden, Amanda Harris Williams, and Lauren Halsey. Reviews of Kenneth Tam, Aria Dean, Eliza Douglas, Lee Bontecou and Michelle Stuart, "The Going Away Present," and Julie Wietz.
