Chatting the Pictures: The War Against Drag. And Why Drag is Winning
Energized by right-wing moral panic, this image reflects the growing popularity of drag as both social education and family entertainment.
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Chatting The Pictures: Death is Part of Life
The image is exemplary for its calmness and domesticity when death is so often distanced and ostracized in modern culture.
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Chatting the Pictures: Ukraine’s Army of Exhumation
We explore the stunning portraiture, the powerful geometry, and how unique and devastating the investigation is for taking place this soon.
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Chatting the Pictures: Liz Cheney On the Hunt
As Liz Cheney leads the charge against Trump and “the big lie,” the background here lets us know she’s a force to be reckoned with.
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Chatting the Pictures: When the Wind Turbine Met the Wildfire
This dramatic photo sets up a fundamental clash between symbols of climate destruction and a green energy future.
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Chatting the Pictures: The NRA Children’s Museum
The two icons paired together, the school bus and the assault weapon make us face their lethal connection in this powerful mobile exhibition.
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Chatting the Pictures: An Abortion Patient Assuredly Shares Her Ultrasound Scan
Post-Roe, abortion patients and activists are promoting the procedure more boldly and unapologetically.
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Chatting the Pictures: Record UK Heat Sweats Palace Guard
As clickbait goes, the guard dripping in his bear hat at Buckingham Palace proved quite the shout-out to the climate crisis.
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Chatting the Pictures: The Ghosts of Lake Mead
As drought from the climate crisis diminishes rivers, lakes, and reservoirs, ancient and eerie objects are washing up worldwide.
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Chatting the Pictures: The NRA’s Dangerous Aims
The provocative photo reflects the growing backlash to rampant gun violence as much as the NRA's enabling of it.
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Chatting the Pictures: In the Post-Roe Blur
As distinct from the protests, the photo calls up the post-Roe state of mind, including the confusion, determination, and women on the move.
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Chatting the Pictures: A More Real Heat Wave Photo
As the climate crisis grows more intense, this image offers a worthy contrast to the more typical heat wave news photo.
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Chatting the Pictures: A Border Photo Equally Informed by Hope and Policy
Focusing on the documents of these young refugees, we discuss how the informational value of the photo compliments its emotional impact.
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Chatting the Pictures: The Pence Jan. 6 Photos and the Hero Narrative
Far from heroic, the newly-released Jan. 6 photos of Mike Pence largely document his inability to defy Trump until the last minute.
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Chatting the Pictures: Hanger Electrifies SCOTUS Abortion Protest
At this moment in history, the vibrancy of the hanger truly captures the precarious status of abortion rights.
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Chatting the Pictures: Russia’s Detention of Brittney Griner
Effectively detained as a political prisoner, we discuss the basketball star's body language and the photo’s reflection on the Soviet state.
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Chatting the Pictures: After Mass Shooting Hate Crime in Buffalo, a Prayerful Photo Outside Tops Market
We discuss body language ("take a knee"?), Tops's empty parking lot, and how we look at this photo after the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
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Chatting the Pictures: The Symbolism of a Home Damaged in the Ukrainian War
John Moore's photo is full of fate and symbolism. That includes the house as a face or head, and the profound outcome of walking away.
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