PRE-ORDER #15 The 'I Support You' Issue – Lucy Dacus

For the Virginia-born singer-songwriter and producer, support consists of showing up and following through.

The last year has seen her extend that notion far beyond the stage and into the lives of the communities around her: performing at Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral inauguration in New York, lending her voice to Sudan and Palestine aid in Los Angeles alongside Chappell Roan, and becoming ordained to officiate 154 predominantly queer weddings while on tour.

“Maybe you have space in your house. Maybe you have trees that grow fruit. Maybe you have skills that can help,” she points out, contemplating the small, tangible ways we can show up for each other, how those choices shape the kind of world we live in, and how important advocacy is in a climate of censorship, authoritarianism, and smear campaigns. “I think you really have to make peace with there not being a balanced return. Charity is not an investment. If the only return that you get is the ability to respect yourself, that should be enough.”

PHOTOGRAPHY Anna Lowry
CREATIVE DIRECTION & STYLING Tori West
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT & SOCIALS Rachelle Cox
STYLING Mia Maxwell
MUA Callie Foulsham
HAIR Kornelija Cecetaite
NAILS Ellie Newman-Grainger aka Sick Nails Bro
SET DESIGN Ro Gearty
STYLING ASSISTANT Kyara Simone
SET DESIGN ASSISTANT Bel Rowland
INTERVIEW Chiara Maculan

Pre-orders from the BRICKS shop are currently available for customers in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia. If you are based in the EU or elsewhere internationally, copies will be available to order through our international stockist Antenne Books from late April, once the issue arrives back from the printers.

Pre-orders will be shipped by 27th April.