ISSUE 39 PRIMAL

ART: Skylar Glastonbury

STAFF LIST EDITOR IN CHIEF Sophia Poole CREATIVE DIRECTOR Annakathryn Shelton PR DIRECTOR Jordyn Jagoda EIC ASSISTANT Emily McComb CD ASSISTANT Shadaria Jackson PR ASSISTANT Halle Colbert PHOTOSHOOT DIRECTORS Lisa Henker

Allison Beltrani Zara Mendoza Charlie Sanchez Jennifer Mai Hayes Lamoureux Malachi Boles Kyra Derato

PHOTOSHOOT ASSISTANTS Lulu Apmann

Lucia Roca Ariana Shahheidari Adrianna Szurnicki Ellen Gessmann Marina Alphin Kylie Giasson Ashlynne Smiley Beth Tingley Anthony Curto Sophia Maslyn Sam Alfouli Nicole Rodriguez Ivana Major Jade Brant Lisa Kolley Taylor Hill Isabella Sofia Owen Hannah Seifart Chloe Raia

PHOTOGRAPHY

Bianca Blevins Malachi Boles Lisa Kolley Anna Fox Jasmine Curry Julian Gomez

VIDEOGRAPHY DIRECTOR

Samantha Dau

VIDEOGRAPHY

STYLING DIRECTOR STYLING DIRECTOR ASSISTANT STYLING

BEAUTY DIRECTOR BEAUTY

Pepe Zuloaga Sophia Ambroggio Caroline Symons Zara Mendoza Katherine Davis Adrianna Szurnicki Angie Aumara Zahara Cooper Sydney Lyell Georgia Rowe Nina Petrou Keria Hirst Emily Ferrara Sienna Paras Grace Drzata Carsyn Dye Maddi Baker Josie Quick Julia Haughery Ava Jones Marina Alphin Sunny Stephan Maren Kaymak-Loveless Sabrina Arauz Bianca Blevins Tiauna Jardae Sarah Avant Sarah Cusick Sorayia Brown

WRITING DIRECTOR WRITING

SOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTOR SOCIAL MEDIA

Jade Brant Lulu Apmann Chloe Raia Stella Hellmann Nikita Sajja Harper Thurston Parker Smith Avery Johnson Rylie Mayer Marcella Mugno Kylie Giasson Sukhi Sodhi Sophia Cadavid Mya De Armas Madison Postiglione Yohanna Mcfarlane Arianna Lancry Elle Warnett Ella Espinola Arianna Abril Anthony Curto Nicole Rodriguez Maya Foley Georgia Rowe Kya Akins Jesse Tuman Rylee Parker Ashlynne Smiley Jade Membreno Kyela Zinati Tara Calambakkam Sarah Jackson Kelly Nguyen Nikita Sajja Juliana Pristupin Anna Ruggiero Sofie Dericks Sarah Avant

RUNWAY DIRECTOR

Caroline Symons

RUNWAY

Katherine Davis Zara Mendoza Annakathryn Shelton Sophia Poole Sienna Paras Lisa Henker Shadaria Jackson Donovan Vandyek Sophia Maslyn Indie Wolfe Angie Aumara Jordyn Jagoda Georgia Rowe Grace Drzata Julia Haugery Riley Hatfield

VISUAL ART

Alivia Corral Skylar Glastonbury Josie Quick Sofie Dericks Ava Jones

GRAPHIC ART

Jade Membreno Terianne Quach Skylar Glastonbury Mia Tully Alivia Corral

EVENTS/ SALES

Ariana Shahheidari Sarah Cusick Addison Shockey Nabihah Qureshi Gianna Graziano Marcella Mugno Ketsia Limexant Allie Iasiello Sophia Cadavid Adelina Sanders Natalie Seng Lila Kelly Jamie Neville Ava Myers Anna Ruggiero Nina Petrou Madeline Sansone Ayumi Heath

ESSENCE

Editor in Chief: Sophia Poole Creative Director: Annakathryn Shelton Photoshoot Director: Sunny Stephan Assistants: Ashlynne Smiley, Ariana Shahheidari Beauty: Sunny Stephan, Maren Kay Loveless, Sarah Cusick Photographers: Lisa Kolley, Bianca Blevins Model: Jorja Heine

Models: Stephanie Altamirano, Derrick O’Neal “Duke”, Ethan Knight, Cayce Elliot, Charlie Sanchez, Camila Lam, Carly Collins, JK, Caleb Litten, Julia Haughery, Sarah Avant, Ivana Major, Lisa Henker, Gwyneth Parrish, Amari Andrews, Karla Backey, Jaz Robinson, Imani Bartie

I have to tear you down.

I climb to the top, yet you teeter from the edge.

As you tumble, and as I fly, for just a moment: It is certain.

I watch you fall, overcome with the merciless desire that boils inside.

I will pay this price, with the breeze in between my fingers, I reach out my hands.

Planting my feet upon your shoulders, heel to body, chest to sky.

You will never be number one, but maybe so much as make it out alive.

I am not a monster– I am not evil– but I need to be the one.

So as you plummet, and as I rise, it becomes clear to me that I am only human.

These impulses bubble to the surface, and in this moment, I become unchained.

Looking down upon all that I have climbed, with bruised chins and wanting eyes, I stretch higher, and take what is mine So now I stand, breath collapsing, chest depleted.

I turn my head back and forth, back and forth, and find that I have won.

But, there I wonder, what is winning when you’re all alone?

Written by Rylie Mayer

Editor in Chief: Sophia Poole Creative Director: Annakathryn Shelton Assistants: Adrianna Szurnicki and Ellen Gessman Styling: Caroline Symons, Zara Mendoza, Julia Haughtery, Carsyn Dye, Adrianna Szurnicki Beauty: Sarah Avant Photographers: Anna Fox, Malachi Boles, Julian Gomez, Lisa Kolley

Editor in Chief: Sophia Poole Creative Director: Annakathryn Shelton Photoshoot Director: Caroline Symons Assistants: Marina Alphin, Hannah Seifart Beauty: Sarah Cusick, Sarah Avant, Sabrina Aruz Photographers: Anna Fox, Bianca Blevins Graphics: Josie quick

Phase 1 Orgin

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Designers: Sienna Paris, Lisa Henker, Annakathryn Shelton, Kat Davis

Models: Emily Lewis, Tessa Nicely, Ethan Knight, Grace Coombs

Feral

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Feral

TRACE

skin against stone no clear edge where one ends bones, lines, curves repeating what’s already there nothing new just remembered Writing: Marcella Mugno

ELEMENTS

of Earth

of Bone

of Bone of Earth

of Earth, of Bone

Body, mind, and soul all one. Our self working as an ecosystem to support the host that carries it through life. Breathing, exhaling, expanding through the stomata that infiltrates our barrier, our protection from the elements. Dew between toes that grip moss, covering the harshness of its underlaying Interconnecting roots like the structure of rib cages. I trace my fingers through the pa�erns, curious eyes glazed from the sun poking through canopies created from tree limbs that have lived for thousands. Crystal reflections from the intricacies of a spider’s web.

Diamonds dancing on still water as the light of day reaches its golden hour. Our one being part of something bigger than just ourselves, Mother’s creation being our whole world, when we are just a part of hers.

Writing: Jade Brant

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of Water

of Bone

of Bone

of Water

Editor in Chief: Sophia Poole Creative Director: Annakathryn Shelton Photoshoot Directors: Malachi Boles and Kyra Derato Assistants: Jade Brant, Ivana Major, Anthony Curto Styling: Caroline Symons, Angie Aumara Beauty: Sarah Avant, Sorayia Brown Photographers: Malachi Boles, Julian Gomez Visual Art: Sofie Dericks Model: Carolina Tiel

For I’m for you I have tasted the opportunity of growth, its flavor like a drug, Everspreading, resilient, touching every corner of this earth, Webbing through pores to find you, soaking up thick rain drops that float down your cheeks and torment the palms they drip on, Breaking my way through to get below the surface, infiltrating the untouched and claiming it for myself, We meet, we are forever, My loyalty laying in your hands like a parasite, crusting over your being, suffocating lungs with warmth, you are the only air capable of curing my disparity As if the universe grew me for the sole purpose of finding you, A piece of me now forever with you Writing by Jade Brant

We gather without thinking.

Drawn together the way light finds glass, the way roots move quietly beneath the surface.

A colony, something living, expanding, becoming.

We are all part of the same slow unfolding, touching, overlapping, never entirely separate.

Writing by Lulu Apmann

Editor in Chief: Sophia Poole, Creative Director: Annakathryn Shelton, Photoshoot Directors: Emily McComb and Shadaria Jackson, Assistants: Lulu Apmann and Lucia Roca, Styling: Caroline Symons, Zara Mendoza, Ava Jones, Custom Art: Alivia Corral, Beauty: Sarah Cusick, Photographer: Emily McComb, Models: Emma Elzey, Xaria Miller, Kara Jones

Writing: Stella Hellmann

They worshipped the fire. The way it moved, the way it breathed, how it nipped at their skin.

They traced its embers on the walls, using their fingers to create. Stone walls covered in their stories. Both past and present.

I don’t remember how to draw. I don’t need to.

Everything is known, already said, already stored. There is no need for discovery. The glow of the screens caress our skin. Not living, but watching. They cover the walls. Eliminate the dark.

Take over our minds. I haven’t moved in days. My body is quiet. My mind is loud.

Thoughts flicker, but never form. Their caves were stone, kept warm by the fire.

Mine is cold.

Wired.

Sealed.

Outside, the world has faded. The ground is littered with cables, the veins that keep our caves alive. There is no life. No animals. No fire. The glow is our only warmth

Writing: Jade Brant

Primal instinct will always be a part of human nature, who we are as a race, the world we have created, always containing competition. Living fast, accelerating at the speed of light, changing before the wind can catch us. Running through fields. Stretch marks like the tiger stripes our ancestors would paint on their skin. Each hair strand being torn out of my head like cable wires. Lips pale from lack of purity, our air being stolen to fuel the machine. Subhuman tendencies corrupt our world.

What will we be?

Editor in Chief: Sophia Poole Creative Director: Annakathryn Shelton Photoshoot Director: Allison Beltrani Assistant: Sophia Maslyn Styling: Caroline Symons, Zara Mendoza, Allison Beltrani Beauty: Sunny Stephan, Ariel Lyden, Alana Waddell Nails: Bianca Blevins Photographer: Malachi Boles Models: Ariel Lyden, Alana Waddell

Editor in Chief: Sophia Poole Creative Director: Annakathryn Shelton Photoshoot Director: Caroline Symons Assistants: Marina Alphin, Hannah Seifart Beauty: Sarah Cusick, Sarah Avant, Sabrina Aruz Photographers: Anna Fox, Bianca Blevins Graphics: Josie quick

Phase 2 instinct

Ss26

Designers: Caroline Symons, sophia poole, Sophia Maslyn, Zara Mendoza, Shadaria Jackson, Riley Hartfield,

Models: Marina Alphin, Sydney Bass, Breana Bass, Angelina Rosario, Breeze Warnock, Noah Sprague, Harrison Trask, Mallory Smith, Zahara Cooper

Feral

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Feral

EDITOR IN CHIEF: SOPHIA POOLE CREATIVE DIRECTOR: ANNAKATHRYN SHLETON PHOTOSHOOT DIRECTOR: LISA HENKER ASSISTANTS: ISABELLA OWEN, SAM ALHOULI STYLING: CAROLINE SYMONS, ZARA MENDOZA, SYDNEY LYELL BEAUTY: SARAH CUSICK PHOTOGRAPHERS: ANNA FOX, JASMINE CURRY MODEL: ANGELINA CASTRO

Editor in Chief: Sophia Poole Creative Director: Annakathryn Shelton Photoshoot Director: Sunny Stephan Assistants: Ashlynne Smiley, Ariana Shahheidari Beauty: Sunny Stephan, Maren Kay Loveless, Sarah Cusick Photographers: Lisa Kolley, Bianca Blevins Model: Gabriella Webb

Art by Alivia Corral Writing by Jade Brant

I yearn for familial comfort the way my nostrils yearn for the scent of my mother’s perfume that filled her master bath.

That which fogged my brain as I listened to the hums of her getting ready as I sat on the edge of her bathtub.

Like I yearn for airyness I felt as I was thrown up in the air in the pool by my father.

Like I yearn for the rampage that would ensue with my older sister.

Like I yearn for the sight of blooming bougainvillea framing our doorway.

And like I yearn for the sweet summer scent of growing pineapples in the backyard signifying the end of whirlwinds and the beginnings of June.

Editor in Chief: Sophia Poole Creative Director: Annakathryn Shelton Photoshoot Director: Caroline Symons Assistants: Marina Alphin, Hannah Seifart Beauty: Sarah Cusick, Sarah Avant, Sabrina Aruz Photographers: Anna Fox, Bianca Blevins Graphics: Josie quick

Phase 3 Humanity

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Designers: Georgia Rowe, Donovan Vandyck, Julia Haughery, Zara Mendoza, Jordyn Jagoda, Grace Drzata

Models: Claire West, Donovan Vandyck, Bella Ricci, Maren Kaymak- Loveless, Mia Tully, Riley Joyner

Feral

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Feral

Editor in Chief: Sophia Poole Creative Director: Annakathryn Shelton Photoshoot Director: Jordyn Jagoda Assistants: Halle Colbert and Beth Tingley Styling: Caroline Symons, Zara Mendoza Beauty: Tiauna Hall Photographer: Julian Gomez Models: Kya Akins, Jaida Barrett, Rilan Jensen, Zea Yu

This city is large, this city is vast And yet, I still want more Let’s not think about our pasts Just join me on the dance floor Forget our sorrows and move to the beat I never want this night to end Swing your arms and shuffle your feet Write that risky text and click send Writing: Nikki Sajja

ESSENCE

Editor in Chief: Sophia Poole Creative Director: Annakathryn Shelton Photoshoot Director: Sunny Stephan Assistants: Ashlynne Smiley, Ariana Shahheidari Beauty: Sunny Stephan, Maren Kay Loveless, Sarah Cusick Photographers: Lisa Kolley, Bianca Blevins Model: Grace Coombs

My claws are sharp once again.

They decorate my soft face, my feathery fur.

As they scrape into the pavement, they dwindle down to dull artifacts of what once was.

Do I use them to fight? Do I use them to crawl?

Here I am left with silver-gray remnants of the pointy edges that I still crave.

Now, as they become sharp once again, I use them as tools.

As weapons of desire and domination.

With these claws, nobody can take from me, or so much they dare tame me.

Thrashing like little swords, I make myself big, competing with the version that has always been small.

A cat must fight for what she wants, though jaguars and lions and leopards remain.

But I too, I too am fearless Written by Rylie Mayer.

Editor in Chief: Sophia Poole Creative Director: Annakathryn Shelton Photoshoot Directors: Zara Mendoza, Charlie Sanchez Assistants: Lisa Kolley, Jade Membreno, Taylor Hill Styling: Zara Mendoza, Charlie Sanchez, Caroline Symons, Ava Jones, Grace Drzata, Maddi Baker, Julia Haughery Beauty: Sarah Cusick, Sabrina Aruz, Zara Mendoza Nails: Bianca Blevins Photographers: Lisa Kolley and Julian Gomez Models: Amy Acosta, Tessa Nicely, Mina Dinh, Carlos Segrera

A rejection

of how she should be Unlearn how to sit how to speak

how to touch how to be

Unlearn how to prove yourself

to those who don’t see mess as beauty

Who don’t know the difference between manners and a facade

Who can’t comprehend the idea

that maybe we are just inherently feral

Art by Josie Quick writing by Harper Thurston

Art by Josie Quick

Art by Sofie Dericks

Art by Sofie Dericks

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Art: Skylar Glastonbury