Dear Reader, I cannot in good faith begin this letter without acknowledging the war on Palestine and her people. I cannot publish a folio on issues of danger without acknowledging that there’s yet to be a ceasefire, there’s yet to be a serious account of what it means to watch the world burn on our…
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Editor’s Note | RAGE
Anger is loaded with information and energy. Audre Lorde Dear reader, This issue seeks to perform a chromatography of anger, showcasing its intersections with other emotions and social dispositions. We attempt to defend & redefine anger that may otherwise be shunned/stunted in “polite” society. How often must we restrain our rage to accommodate the “legitimate”…
Editor’s Note | Place
Dear Reader, Often, our encounters with place can be misconstrued simply as background or setting. This issue seeks to redefine place in multitudes. Place, in this issue, is a rich texture of landscapes. As you peruse this issue, you will find yourself in mosques, tea shops, rivers, wild fires, filipino supermarkets, classrooms, garden soil, homelands,…
Editor’s Note | Punk
It’s rare to find writing that convincingly represents the world of punk—of show-going and show-playing; of earnest and eager youth; how formative and life-giving it can be to sing and dance in a room of crowded people—but the pieces published in this issue engage with music in a way that feels reliable, lived in. Jennifer…
Editor’s Note | Work
As Andrea Abi-Karam wrote in their book Villainy, “I WANT A BETTER APOCALYPSE THIS ONE SUCKS.” Everywhere there is the proliferation of work and labour (which are not the same) and their dissolution too; capital encroaches, demands, regurgitates. It offers little in return to most and too much to a few. How does it feel,…
Editor’s Note | On Pleasure
Dear Reader, When pleasure appears on the page, it is often simplified, sanitized, or centered on the experiences of straight cis men, while—off the page—pleasure is manifold: mundane, profound, individual, shared, sexual, platonic, messy, and moving. In this issue, you will find pleasure distilled in the tip of a pen as it grazes skin, in…