Collective Mischief is a quarterly-ish physical newsletter conceived by friends Boyuan Gao and Chelsea Iris Granger to spark your strangeness
But why?
We made this because our brains are fried from being perpetually online, and we're guessing yours are too. There's something different about holding a thing with texture and soul, and taking it in bit by bit, savoring each layer as you discover it. That's how we grew up. It's how we learned to connect with art: reading about random subcultures in far-flung places, finding out people were doing cool shit we couldn't begin to comprehend, or sometimes even pronounce. It didn't matter. Curiosity begets curiosity. That's how our horizons expanded, and how we realized that we could also be the ones making a random thing straight out of our imaginations. That’s the spirit of this newsletter. It’s to revive that feeling for us as we gather, curate and share. For you: we hope you discover something new. Thanks for dropping in!
What’s Inside Issue 1?
Our inaugural issue is themed after the newsletter's namesake: collective mischief.
Summer ‘26 was a sports summer. It was a dancing summer. It was a time where people came together in big and small ways, and started to go against what the tech overlords programmed for us, because we peeled away from the screens and found each other to have big fun and to be outside! That’s the flavor of collective mischief that we explore in this issue.
Original illustration by artist Chelsea Granger
Interview with Roula David on the iconic Spot Lite Detroit
Curated record selection by DJ/Archivist Malik Abdul-Rahmaan
Letter from the Editor by Boyuan Gao
And more…
Dimensions: 13” x 19”
Can I read the content online?
Nah bruh! That would defeat the purpose. We want you to feel the effort that we put into printing this on the intentional paper stock that we chose and the creases that we made through folding it ourselves. We want you to experience the joy of receiving something special in the mail, and to open the nice packaging. There’s an element of surprise that reading on a screen would rob you of. We want you to feel the love that went into this.
But….maybe soon there will be longer-form versions of these articles that didn’t fit on paper. That’s why we encourage you to subscribe below ⬇ for fun announcements.