PAINHUB

About the Space

PAINHUB was born out of boredom, as most good ideas are. The founding editor was unhappy at their social work nonprofit job and turned to writing for catharsis.

What developed was a strong voice keen on absolutely eviscerating a wide breadth of cultural and political events, trends, and histories. PAINHUB has covered music, fashion, electoral politics, literature, visual art, and more.

PAINHUB has grown a following of leaders in various fields; from research, to literature, to academia to journalism.

PAINHUB’s critical lens is broad. No particular demographic or ideology will be or should be devoid of critique. It’s just not healthy, like !!!!!

That being said, this spaces' media, programming, and publications are a work of anthropologically hopeful resolve. Criticism is an act of love.

There is a fundamental core of survival in most any work of PAINHUB: We believe in survival.

We hope the writers, the queers, the weirdos, the colored, the hyphenates feel this is a space that allows them not feel alone while simultaneously being educated on the world as it turns written in a way worth engaging with.

About the Editor

Jupi Bowen (b. 1998, Broward County, Florida) is an editor and culture worker based in Brooklyn, New York.

Bowen has studied at Kennesaw State University, Mercer University, CUNY Brooklyn College and the School for Poetic Computation, Zepp Wellness and MIT. They are classically trained in both orchestral and contemporary upright bass and are a literary autodidact with an ongoing ten-year journey in broadcast media.

Their work has been showcased at the School for Poetic Computation, Ebony Tomatoes Collective in Brooklyn, NY, and the Participatory Cultures Lab at McGill University in Montreal, QB. Their writing has appeared in Sinister Wisdom, Your Impossible Voice, and Lefty Blondie Press. Bowen’s visual art has been exhibited in Pilsen Arts and Community House in Chicago, IL. They have spoken about their homelessness journey internationally.

Bowen is Founder and Principal Editor of Jupiterian Media Company, which houses PAINHUB: an independent editorial platform exploring identity, emotion, and current events, and How To Write When You’d Rather Scream: a Poetry School for Journalists (ScreamU) serving marginalized writers on their journeys toward artistic actualization.