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    • SECTION 3—Bicycles, Trains, & Automobiles
    • SECTION 4—Textual Burlesque
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    • SECTION 5—All the City’s a Stage
    • SECTION 6—Urban Fabric
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    • SECTION 9—The Living Grid
    • SECTION 10—Mean Streets
    • SECTION 11—Letter From Another City
    • SECTION 12—Continuous City
    • From the Editor’s Desk—Sally Rand’s Fan Dance
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    • The Slag Glass Interview
  • Contents of the City
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A shelf in a store is labeled “tampones,” holds empty tampon display cases.
A woman in a red dress with a child tied to her back walks alongside a road. She is balancing a purple basket on her head.
Billboard with a smiling lady overlooks the construction of condominiums.
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  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Submit to the City
  • Essay, Memoir, & Lyric
    • SECTION 1—Walkers in the City
    • SECTION 2—Intimate Graffiti
    • SECTION 3—Bicycles, Trains, & Automobiles
    • SECTION 4—Textual Burlesque
  • Report & Eyewitness
    • SECTION 5—All the City’s a Stage
    • SECTION 6—Urban Fabric
    • SECTION 7—After Slag
    • SECTION 8—Strangers Here Ourselves
  • RANT & REMEDY
    • SECTION 9—The Living Grid
    • SECTION 10—Mean Streets
    • SECTION 11—Letter From Another City
    • SECTION 12—Continuous City
    • From the Editor’s Desk—Sally Rand’s Fan Dance
  • INTERVIEW & HAPPENING
    • Slag Glass Happenings
    • The Slag Glass Interview
  • Contents of the City
  • Slag Glass Tumblr
SECTION 4—Textual Burlesque
Poster from 1937 Columbia Pictures film Paid to Dance. The women in the poster are leaning towards the camera and not smiling

Reconstructing V

The side of a tall, barrel-shaped building with oval windows.

My Repeating World

An animated image shows a man raising one arm up in the air; he is wearing a colorful crown, lip rings and a low cut shirt that showcases a large tattoo on his chest. In the background, there’s a man walking who wears a bright red suit.

COURTING THE PECULIAR

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