ART text by OLIVIER ZAHM and BARBARA T. SMITH artwork by BARBARA T. SMITH we asked the american performance artist barbara t. smith, a key protagonist of the feminist movement in southern california since the 1960s, how she sees love and relationships. instead, she chose to annotate the text introducing this issue. Let’s start with romantic love. These difficult moments will impact life for some time. But during such times, the narcissistic culture of hype via social media could easily decline, and true love, real love, unconditional love, might very well resurface and be seen again as relevant. However, this Purple Love Issue won’t try to reaffirm love as a moral or traditional value. On the contrary, it will explore its meaning as well as the possibilities of a different kind of love, of new representations of love between individuals of all genders. So, we ask: what does love mean…