Creating Progressive Conversations
Deprived Magazine is an art project based in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The purpose of the magazine’s publications is to provide visual and literary commentaries based on issues regarding gender and sexuality. The commentaries consist both of educational standpoints and individual experiences in hopes to strike up conversations that will break down the stigmas surrounding the explored topics.
Volume 2 (Ed. 1): May 2018
Exploring Body Image as a Trigger of Self and Sexual Worth
The first issue involves exploring the initial stages of people coming into their sexuality. Once people start learning about their sexual interests and sexual identity, they tend to begin experimenting. Topics such as virginity and purity versus corruption, the sense of being deflowered, and the journey in-between is what we are looking for here!
Courtesy of Shayla Hickerson, Boundaries: Pt 6, 2017. Photograph.
McKenna James, Then You Feel Magnitudes, 2017. I love you he says when his hair falls in my face, his eyes are on my eyes, his nose brushes against my cheek, his fingers trace my jaw, his lips embrace my lips, his arm leans against my chest, his chest hovers over my heart, his legs wrap around …
Media art and photography by Karen Forbes Model: Shayla Hickerson
