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Ash Currie walking in the Bizarre category at the 2023 Supernatural kiki ball in Vancouver wearing an ethereal red and white mushroom costume. They’re holding a smaller red and white mushroom in their hand.
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SFYou: Costume designer Ash Currie

Peak Web August 15, 2025

By: C Icart, Co-Editor-in-Chief Ash Currie is a master’s student in the department of political science. When they’re not acing their coursework, they can be found getting their 10s at a local ball. Their costumes are elaborate and unique, and their passion for creating is infectious: they’ve embodied an ethereal red and white mushroom and a larger-than-life inflatable octopus inspired by Lady Gaga. I sat down with them to learn more about their work and the vibrant queer subculture that is Ballroom. What is Ballroom?  Currie importantly points out that “​​you shouldn’t talk about Ballroom without going into the history…

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A collage of book covers for - (1) How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell (2) How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones (3) Stolen Voices by Zlata Filipović and Melanie Challenger (4) Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
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Six non-fiction books that ask you to feel deeply

Peak Web June 3, 2025

By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer and Michelle Young, Co-Editor-in-Chief I love books that breathe — that smile gently at me and invite me into their orbit; that ask, “Will you join me? Will you look at what you’ve been avoiding?”…

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