On the Cover: I Am Not the Kung Flu (2021). Artwork by Susan Chen. The painting is part of a series Chen created over Zoom during the pandemic. “Everyone I knew who had bought pepper spray or some other item for self-defense had never used it; it was just something they kept in their pocket for peace of mind,” she says. “I thought it was curious from a psychological place to do a self-portrait with all the items on the table together.”