Art by Angela Rische Why are so many members of the elite being outed as perverts, pedophiles, and sexual sadists? Lauren Berlant describes “cruel optimism” as an attachment to an idea, person, or thing that restricts your flourishing as an individual, such as drugs, violence, and the American dream. Our societal structure’s cruelly-optimistic, almost Stockholm-syndrome-y attachment to misogyny and sexual violence is what keeps the elite elite and the working class subjugated. When reading...

February 2, 2026 Newsletter Andres Kudacki for The New York Times Dearest Prattlers, I wish that I could be welcoming you all back to Pratt on better terms, but the fact of the matter is that ICE is ravaging our communities and will stop at nothing to terrorize us into complacency. As Pratt’s widest-reaching publication, it is our duty to use our platform to spread information that is beneficial to our community. Instead of blandly-wording an email about the “challenging moment” we are...

November 10, 2025 Newsletter The 2025-2026 Prattler Team at the Rogue Launch Party Hi All, Thank you to everyone who attended our launch party this past Friday. It was a huge success for us, and for your closet too, we hope! The Rogue Edit Also, here's another reminder that pitches for our Occult Classics Winter Web Issue are due this Friday, November 14th . Here is a link to the pitch log. Here is a link to the SVM form, wherein you may submit any sort of standalone media, such as short...