Photo-Illustration: Vulture
Hello, everyone. Greetings from Malaysia. Home! Took me all of 15 minutes to regain my tropical gait, which wasn’t very hard to do when everything feels so moist all the time. Anyway, a relatively quick one this week. As always, you can reach me at nicholas.quah@nymag.com or find me on Twitter.
Summer of Soul(searching)
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At the outset of a summer not long ago, Mitra Kaboli traveled to Provincetown with two aims in mind. The first is to fulfill her assignment of documenting the lives of several individuals across a season in the Massachusetts seaside haven for the queer community. Kaboli would construct a group portrait of sorts; among those she shadows were: a performer identified as the summer’s “It Girl”; three beneficiaries from a program designed to help relocate young people from communities that aren’t particularly welcoming of their queer identities; a newcomer to the town looking for some…
