the phx rambutan roundup / 4.30 🌷
btw our writer team doubled in size this month...so double the fun (and content)!!
🤝🏼 meet the newsletter squad!
Maya (PHX Managing Editor) - Breanna & Kim (Writers) - Percy (Newsletter Designer) - Maria (Editor in Chief)
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🎨📣 ICYMI: Cohort 4 Artist Reveal!
If you’re new here, Club Rambutan’s magazine is our biggest art advocacy project to push for more consistent + well rounded representation of intersectional stories in mainstream media. Every biannual issue features a new cohort of artists from widely diverse backgrounds, each of whom are selected to design an original piece that reflects their own interpretation of the magazine’s theme.
Issue 4 and our 6 new artists will be focusing their work on fear. Check out the works of Ahsea, Priyanka, Eamon, Scout, Sam, and Wyatt on IG!
And although we have physical teams based here in SF, Phoenix, and soon NYC by the end of this year, we are still mostly an online community. Prior to Cohort 4, we’ve already published 19 artists across Singapore, the UK, and other cities in the US!
🀥 Pung, Kong, Chow!
Interested in learning how to play mahjong? Hosted by our very own writer Kim, the Southwest Winds Mahjong Club meets at Central Records every third Thursday. All experience levels are welcome!
🌈A Daughter and Drag: My Coming Out Story
“If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” - Rupaul
💆🏻♀️YOU would have said yes, too!
Want to experience the power of Chinese medicine? Maya scoped out a really kind local spot that even hooked our readers up with a coupon code.
🔸percy’s picks🔸
Allooo!!
I’m Percy—aka @Gumboking_ on the internet—and I’m the wizard behind this newsletter’s design. °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖° Today, let’s dive into something near and dear to my heart: raving—and preserving rave history and fliers.
Collecting rave fliers has been one of my favorite pastimes. These little neon time capsules document the wild subcultures and unique aesthetics of party crews, big and small. They are all unified by their shared love of moving their sweaty body with a crowd of strangers. Truly, it’s one of the most human experiences one can have.
When I hit a creative rut, I crack open the digital crates and sift through rave fliers—old, new, weird, and wild. They remind me it’s okay to break the mold a little and push me to just try design ideas until they stick.
One of my favorite online rabbit holes is ravepreservationproject.com — a treasure trove of flyers sorted by country and even U.S. state. Highly recommend giving it a scroll!
Below, I’m sharing some of my all-time fave rave posters from the 90s PHX scene. 
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