As Pride Month makes its way across social media platforms and institutional programme calendars, giving queer people and practices their time in the sun, we wonder: what does it really mean to 'feel pride'? PRIDE is more than inflamed vanity; for queer people, it is the determination to be seen and embraced on their own terms.

Being queer is having a precarious relationship with the ground you stand on. Your lived experience has always been excluded from the realm of normality, so banal shifts feel monumental. When you are able to tick 'Partner' on a form instead of 'Friend', you feel seen. This week, we reflect on PRIDE as a daily commitment to dignity and equality: photographer Sunil Gupta reflects on the invisibility of queer intimacy and domesticity, foregrounding these ideas in his portraits of gay men.

We delve into the STIR archives to revisit the discursive practice of eight queer artists. We also explore 'About Face', a book that chronicles queer art with the Stonewall uprising as a historical reference point. PRIDE reflects a will to survive, to exist despite the odds.

We zoom in on the Venice Biennale 2024 to consider the environmental impact of the art world and learn about 'Synthetic Memories', a project that uses AI to build a community-based archive, helping migrants and refugees remember the homes and lives they have left behind. PRIDE goes beyond the individual, building a collective imagination of what it means to live in a world splintered by political, socio-cultural and environmental crises.