Aperture #259 2025 - Liberated Threads curating You stand outside yourself and

You stand outside yourself and a god enters you

making it a perfect ingredient for desserts and cocktails

A future which Verity soon fears may never be

and cultural memory

this portrays the encounter and growing friendship between young William Bradshaw and the urbane and mildly sinister Mr Norris

Aperture #259 2025 - Liberated Threads curating You stand outside yourself andExploring fashion and style as a political language and tool of resistance in the African diaspora. Apertures Summer issue highlights image makers around the world who are exploring style and fashion as a language of Black resistance, refusal, and joy. Guest edited by the writer and researcher Tanisha C. Ford and titled after her 2015 book, Liberated Threads, this edition features photographers, stylists, and filmmakers who remix, reimagine, and in