River Lines by Sophy Drouin
Your palm is the second to love me, first to touch. In the hallway of a Venezuelan hospital, my mom is deep under blankets, shaking,...
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Amelia Brown
Nov 87 min read
Meet the t'ARTists
We spoke to a selection of the artists - multidisciplinary artist Amy Rose-Edlyn, ceramicist Gessica Carbone, fine artist Orlando...
Amelia Brown
Oct 292 min read
An Interview with Janis Butler Holm: on inside stimuli, light and creating from isolation
Artist, writer and performer Janis Butler Holm was forced inside by the Covid pandemic. We spoke to her about the impact of lockdown on...
Audrey T. Carroll
Oct 294 min read
Trans(formation) or: Orlando in the Age of Social Media
TW: Transphobia Imagine you wake up one day. Your gender is the opposite. (If you define gender by genitalia, congratulations! You are...
Tobi Alfier
Oct 172 min read
Calendar of Hurt by Tobi Alfier
She’s not a woman who changes men or friendships the way some women flap sheets straight before hanging them on the line, sunlight...
Natalia Pikna
Oct 178 min read
In Line by Natalia Pikna
She was standing in line at the grocery store. It was one of those slow days, a Thursday to make it worse. She had rushed from work in...
Ann McCann
Oct 173 min read
Wrong Place, Wrong Size by Ann McCann
Back in 2022 a woman named Kayla Ancrum posted a now-viral short line of a poem on Tiktok. She said, “I had a dream that I was...
Judith Shapiro
Oct 172 min read
Back at It by Judith Shapiro
I was the hard-ass New Yorker. A slap on the back, and a jovial Fuck you . Translation: You pissed me off, but we’re okay now, right? She...
Amelia Brown
Oct 1310 min read
IS IT OKAY? with Bold Mellon
At Croydon’s Stanley Arts Centre, queers gathered to spend three days moving and making, being paid for their time without the pressure...
Julian Konuk
Jul 163 min read
A trans person slowly forgets their past
I had a dream that I don't quite remember: What happened to my parents fish tank when they moved, I can’t quite remember and I’m scared...
Brandon Mead
Jul 64 min read
The Summit
There’s this thing they would repeat all the time at the camp, about freezing the evil out of us. The self-righteous and apologetically...
Amelia Brown
Jun 127 min read
Hay Festival: queer places, writing as flying & monstrous plants
Just outside of the world’s first ‘book town’ Hay-on-Wye, the Hay Festival takes place each year. The green landscape is broken up by...
Jess Moher
Jun 123 min read
Nectarine
Soft bodies lay stretched out on sun warmed rocks, surrounded by turquoise water. Waves came in, gentle. Water kissed the edge of rugged...
Rebecca Miles
Jun 123 min read
Purple Kisses
The tent is a body bag. I zip it up and walk away from the remains of my life. As the park gate clangs shut, pushed by December’s icy...
Hiten Chojer
Jun 124 min read
Slipping
‘Stand back,’ the man tells you through the glass, through the protective plastic, through his mask. Hand him the reference letter from...
Diane Funston
Jun 54 min read
Canning Prunes
It started at the public market on a September Saturday morning. Harvest time for fall fruit. Pears, apples, and my favourite, French...
Amelia Brown
Jun 58 min read
Charleston Festival: on gardens, outsider artists and culture wars
Charleston House is one of my new favourite places, since I first visited a few months ago. The house was lived in by artists Duncan...
Sean Colgrave
Jun 45 min read
What’s the point? Is there value in the needle?
The Pietà by Michelangelo I recently asked some family members to describe a tattooist in relation to a tattoo artist for me. I got a...
Amelia Brown
May 226 min read
An Interview with Writers' HQ: on community, being the weirdest weirdos, and stories as radical acts
As most writers know, writing can be the most wonderful thing in the world. But it can feel inaccessible and isolating. That's why...
Amelia Brown
Apr 276 min read
Potluck: On Curating Contemporary Surrealism
Last week artists and first-time curators Milly Aburrow, Daisy-Drew Smith and Lilly Foster-Eardley brought contemporary surrealism to...
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