--- title: "Culture - Mainline" language: "en-US" canonical_url: "/category/culture/page/3/" source_url: "https://www.mainlineatl.com/category/culture/page/3/" content_type: "text/markdown" --- [![](/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Ash5.jpeg)](/community-music-ash-lauryn-and-underground-and-black/) [ Jul 5 2020 ](/community-music-ash-lauryn-and-underground-and-black/) ## [Community music: Ash Lauryn and Underground & Black](/community-music-ash-lauryn-and-underground-and-black/) In these times, it feels more and more apparent that communities need to organize and bring voices to those who have been traditionally kept silent. In the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement, the electronic music and dance community […] [ Community music: Ash Lauryn and Underground & Black Read More »](/community-music-ash-lauryn-and-underground-and-black/) [![](/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/medically-alone-feature-scaled-1-1024x593.jpg)](/medically-alone-the-search-for-humanity-in-the-time-of-corona/) [ May 27 2020 ](/medically-alone-the-search-for-humanity-in-the-time-of-corona/) ## [Medically Alone: the Search for Humanity in the Time of Corona](/medically-alone-the-search-for-humanity-in-the-time-of-corona/) I think there\’s a lot of imagery around isolation and medical conditions that depict its subject as sympathetic to the point of being pathetic. Mostly images of female bodied people curled up in a ball. 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