Features/Opinion
Family Portraits
Photography by Allan E. Schoening Whether it be by way of lovers, roommates, co-workers or friends, life surrounds us with our own chosen extended families. Working Class took a deeper look into these relationships by getting to know some local families from Brooklyn. The Artists Names: PERU ANA ANA PERU Occupations: Visual artists, wanderers. Years in New York: Coming up on 8. How did you guys meet? We were both working on the same private eye case at the same time, [...]
My First True Love Was 7-Ply
Words by Chris Kent Photography by Aileen Kent My shins are a very ugly place. If you were to run your finger from my kneecap to my ankle, along the rocky topography, you would recoil in disgust. The single most important relationship of my life began brutally when I was eleven. And I nurtured it. Every day I’d ride my bike to the bottom of my street to watch in awe as the older kids rolled from driveway to driveway on wide, flat, neon colored Nash Executioners, the most popular [...]
Homo Thug II: the Greatest Book I’ve Never Read
Words by Seizures R. Fake I like to do my thinking at fast-food joints along 14th Street. There’s something about people waiting in line in the middle of total chaos that appeals to my well-honed false sense of entitlement. I like pushing through the crowds and being handed bootleg CDs that I have no intention of buying. I get a mental erection when confronted with the sheer number of people crushed together along the sidewalks outside my air-conditioned calorie palace, each nimbly [...]
Interracial Couples & Dating in the USA: The melting pot is boiling
Photography by Winnie Au Words by Moni Briones Both initial attraction and racial stereotypes, as they pertain to relationships, often act as gateways to new and unexpected life experiences. McNulty, Neff and Karney noted in their latest study for the Journal of Family Psychology, “ that attractiveness accounts for process and outcomes in new relationships is not surprising. Physical appearance is frequently the first thing people learn about one another and thus may be the only [...]
The Embodiment Project
Photography by Molly Landreth Embodiment is a collection of short films and photographs that explore the varied experiences of queer lives and relationships across the United States. Filmmaker Amelia Tovey and photographer Molly Landreth set out to capture the essence of queer America. In their new multimedia project Embodiment, they are looking to show the many faces and personalities that make up the LGBTQ community, from Los Angeles to small town Missouri. "We really hope that [...]
He Said, She Said
Words by Melissa Burgos and Josh Shaw In every relationship, it's inevitable to have questions for your partner. Questions that are not necessarily scandalous, but more quiet wonders- maybe something small that nags at your subconscious, or a deep set fear that you would never say out loud, a nervous tick that presents itself only in the throes of a knock down drag out fight or intimate post-whatever pillow talk. A subject you wouldn't dare breach in worry of highlighting a fear that you [...]
Summer in Winter
Photography and Words by Megan Martin Kathleen Malay overlooking North Bondi in Sydney, Australia. When I think about free, I think of no boundaries; the ability to take life in whatever direction you please without restrictions or limitations. Last January I set out on a month-long journey that further expanded my ideas of freedom. Spending a month in a foreign country – one as beautiful as Australia – can certainly do things to the psyche. I left winter for summer, the northern [...]
If Only I Loved New York
By Megan Cahn Megan Cahn overlooking Manhattan, 2006 Living in New York was one of the hardest things I have ever done; leaving it was harder. There are two standard New York City days. The first, a little more common than the second, may start with you waking up to your teeth chattering in the dregs of August because you passed out with the A/C on full blast battling the humidity that last night started to feel like it might swallow you whole. Or maybe it's February and even as the [...]
Costa Rica: Escape from New York
Photography and Words by Adriana Rizzolo As much as we all love New York, I'm sure we can all agree what a drag it is in the dead of winter. After two months of hibernating and doing sweaty yoga just to feel some warmth, the decision to break away finally came about. Here are some photos from my trip to the southern Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica with my friend Matt Dwyer. I didn't take a trip, this trip took me.
Yo amo Guatemala
Photography by Marcel Dagenais My chance for freedom came when I booked my ticket to Guatemala for eight days last month. After climbing a volcano, staying in a small town on a lake filled with chill hippie folk, my friends and I ended up on the beach of Monterrico to chill out and burn our buns on the hot black sand. It's nice to know that there is a world outside of New York City, and it's beautiful. In these photos: Aaron Osborn, Adriana Rizzolo, Maureen Walsh, Carla [...]