This issue marks the conclusion of the fourth year of Majuscule. When we started this journal back in that innocent year 2019, our collective attitude combined hopefulness and ambition along with a fair dose of doubt: were we really going to be able to make this a going concern? One pandemic, one presidential election, four World Series, several thousand cups of coffee (black, preferably iced), and countless seismic changes in the zeitgeist later, we feel that we have succeeded, albeit modestly. We measure our success not in web traffic or clicks or ad dollars, but rather in conversations started, ideas explored, writers and artists supported. This issue is a representative sampling of what we have tried to achieve: some cheeky pop-culture analysis, some exploration of marginalized identities, some cultural history, and some terrific art, as well as our usual check-ins from around the globe. May there be many more issues to come.
On Bimbos and Tradwives
Exploring the Postfeminist Frontier
by Emmeline Clein
Remembering What I Can’t Know
On Yugoslavia, Storytelling, and Impossible Identity
by Nina Reljić
A Mirror, or a Stone
Teotihuacan in Image and Memory
by Surya Milner
The True Transsexuals
A Medical and Linguistic History of Sexual Deviance
by Annie Howard
Featured Artist: Emily Weiner
A Conversation
by Amy Wilson
Anandi Mishra
Rachael Joshua
Nicole Waldner