A historian, a musician, and an engineer walk into a bar...
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...they had a swell time.
Names are supposed to be everything: ‘cross’ could have been too ‘priesty’ or too ‘porny’. In truth, there was a Norwegian, there was a pub (and so there were the makings of an excellent bar joke)─but CRXSS was made to mean intersection, overlap: the magazine equivalent of a Venn diagram. Anything but ‘interdisciplinary’─ a term painfully obese on syllables.
The idea was to offer something a bit different─a spicy mix of STEM, arts and culture. We don’t like conventional boxes and their gatekeepers. ‘Politics’, ‘Culture’, ‘Science and Technology’─why not ‘Nationalism’ or ‘Apocalypse’, ‘Mind’ or ‘Conspiracy’? Perspectives are more vibrant and diverse and accessible when they orbit themes rather than categories.
We are passionate about young people, what they can create, and how to do their content justice. With climate change dominating the horizons of most, CRXSS had intended to launch its first printed edition on Climate in April 2020. But what with Covid-19's raised bridges, all that remains of that aspiration is the graphic design dotted across the site.
From romance and workplaces to public health and democratic politics, things are more broken now than usual. We’ve learnt a lot about what we take for granted. Few hugs, fewer pubs. But it is remarkable to see the world shrunk so small with such an international and diverse group of writers, editors, producers, photographers, activists, and musicians.
So, CRXSS is still up and running, barely surviving the academic work and graduate jobs that we probably should have seen coming and a pandemic that we definitely didn’t, to hopefully offer up something interesting for everyone.
Tom
Founder & Director