Aperture #259 2025 - Liberated Threads games A private detective is hired

A private detective is hired to find a missing person

Despite being repeatedly written off as a political movement that has achieved its aim of female liberation

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an interview with a Chilean-Swiss fashion designer

It would seem that the time has come to reassess this ancient tradition

Aperture #259 2025 - Liberated Threads games A private detective is hiredExploring 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