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We sat down with Dazed on a roundtable discussion with OOMK Zine, Motherlands Zine , The Lonely Londonders and Variant Space to discuss the current climate of the British art world and how we challenge the very white and middle class narrative.

Also featured is a 23 image slideshow of artists from our first issue

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some screen shots from the film (screened as a video installation at our pop-up exhibit) featuring xaymacans, 5ft1, myself and mojuicy.

we talked about the project, racism in the art world, our relationships with ourselves and how our hair partly articulates these notions of the self.

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me photographed by jack davison for double magazine

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CHANGING STATE: AN EXHIBITION 15.05.14

The Lonely Londoners had the pleasure of collaborating with Tian Glasgow on, Changing State, his sophomore play.

CS is a darkly comic coming-of-age tale of four inner city young adults and their struggle with unemployment, motivation, aspirations and self-esteem. We curated monologues from the full play and a gallery of artist responses to the emotions and themes. We hope that this melting pot event was a place that gave a lightbulb of inspiration to attending playwrights, directors and print artists alike.

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this was so fun, New York are you ready tho

nan sukaram

NEW YORK, 2014

by Mojuicy

PAPI JUICE VOL.14: PAPI BOMBA ⚛ ⚛ ⚛ ⚛ ⚛ ⚛ ⚛ ⚛ ⚛ ⚛ ⚛ ⚛ ⚛ ⚛ ⚛ ⚛ ⚛ ⚛ ⚛ ⚛

ZAMMMMM ZADDY! PAPI JUICE IS BACK THIS MONTH LOOKIN CUTER AND FEELIN CUTER! PAPI BOMBA WILL BE ALL THINGS SUMMER: GLISTENIN’ BROWN SKIN TONES, SALT WATER HAIR, TIGHT FADES, HALF-NAKED CUERPOS, MICHELADAS, WATERMELON, BEATS & SONIDOS, AND MUCHO MAS. WE’RE SO EXCITED AND HONORED TO BE COLLABORATING WITH SO MANY AMAZING ARTISTS FROM THE COMMUNITY AND BEYOND THIS MONTH! WE GOT The Lonely Londoners IN THE HOUSE, iBomba DJs USHKA AND BETO ON DECKS, AND UR NEW FAVE R&B PAPI THURMON GREEN ON DA MIC! PERO LIKE QUE CUUUUUU’!!!

☼ $5 COVER ☼ ☼ DRINK SPECIALS ☼ ☼ QUEER BODIES ☼

NYC COME THRU THIS SATURDAY!!!

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READY 4 THIS

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Queenies, Fades, & Blunts is an pop-up QTPOC beauty space curated by The Lonely Londoners featuring original works from Mojuicy (Mohammed Fayaz), Quilombo (Bryan Rodriguez), and Kareem Reid & Khaleb Brooks.

Curating a production of film and artwork from these local artists of color, The Lonely Londoners invite you to indulge in these abstract ideas of un/safe cultural spaces, herstories, hair stories, beautification and how these processes are experienced socially, culturally and politically. Submissions for a following zine are now open for print and online publication in August, which you can find here.

We want to see you all there. Join us for an early evening of refreshments & the sweetest vibes followed by papijuice Volume 14 at One Last Shag, with guest DJs Beto and Ushka of iBomba.

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currently editing this video installation to be screened here on saturday come thru u u u

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My first show, a collaboration with The Lonely Londoners, was an absolute dream. I have never worked so hard as I have on anything in my life and every ounce of effort I put into it was returned to me with the sweet scent of spirit, love, community, and kinship. So much fam came through and I met a dozen kids that day who got me through my work —- and I in turn kinda knew where they were coming from. My artwork being the medium for that is surreal. A year ago I didn’t know what context I was creating ago and two nights ago I lived a dream.

A lot of these pieces were really cathartic for me to create and came from some of the saddest places I’ve let myself go and to hear someone relate or completely get what I meant, what I felt, revealed to me a power in art I didn’t know was there. That means more to me than I knew. We all out here hurting.

I’m such a lazy person in reality but the productivity I was on for this show tasted so good, I wanna keep this pace and keep these habits and just wanna do everything bigger and better. I wanna keep feeling keep loving keep creating keep breathing keep it going!!! I’m mad corny!!!

Photography courtesy of cisnegros ismiamora moderndayblackgay

Will be uploading the pieces from the show throughout this week. A lot of love for you guys and the pure love you’ve showered me with.

xo mojuicy

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