volume five

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hold people accountable

are you a performative activist?

are you speaking out to fit in?

are you actively supporting committers of GBV?

are you covering for a rapist?

how are you complicit?

speak up and help survivors

silence is violence.

neutrality is violence

Zada Hanmer

At Risk:

Representations of the female body and violence in the work of Penny Siopis and Gabrielle Goliath

What does it mean for shame to be full of holes? Perhaps it means that shame is incomplete, useless, unhelpful. It leaves the personality in ruins and expects you to pick up its rejected pieces. It punches holes in self-confidence and tears the psyche apart.

xxx - Cady fick

Graphic with a red background showing a humanoid figure with a goat's head lying down, marked with red stars on the chest and pelvis, and a large circle with '18+' inside. Text at the top states, '50% of South African children will be assaulted before the age of.'

A stylized graphic of a goat with a human female body, holding a star. The goat has a speech bubble that says 'did you know?!'. The background is split with red on the left and white on the right. Bold text along the right side displays a phone number: 404-842-1428. At the bottom, a paragraph provides statistics about incidents of violence against females between July and September 2023.

A drawing of a brain with text inside discussing exploitation of women, symbolism of a goat figure, and satirical critique of gender issues, signed by Cady Fick.

required reading

Book cover titled "Rape: A South African Nightmare" by Pumla Dineo Gqola.

A magazine cover featuring a black woman with short hair, with part of her face covered by a yellow paintbrush stroke. The cover is titled 'Made in South Africa' and includes the subtitle 'A black woman's stories of rage, resistance and progress.' There is a child in the foreground wearing a shirt that says 'SHOUT,' and the author's name, Lwanda Xaso, is at the bottom.

Book cover titled "Living, Loving, and Lying Awake at Night" by Sindiwe Magona, featuring an illustration of a woman holding a sleeping child against a dark background with a table and a lit candle.

Book cover titled "Female Fear Factory" by Pumla Dineo Gqola, featuring an abstract illustration of a woman with her head bowed and arms stretched out, surrounded by red scribbles.

corruption by qr code

Nokukhanya Sibanda

These black-and-white square barcodes alter where we place attention while engaging with art. Instead

it reshapes how audiences engage with art, stripping context, reducing attention from the real-life artwork and redirecting it to tiny screens. And it seems that the only spaces that are surviving this attention apocalypse are the publishing arts.

femininity in all forms

our gallery from our first open call for themed submissions

Featured artists

Coral Nomdo

Kimshay Philander

Boikhanyo Mothoagae

Savannah faulmann

Abigale Calisse

Amogelang Lesedi

Coral Nomdo

A shirtless person wearing a headscarf with their back to the camera, lying in an old bathtub filled with dirt and plants, outdoors at night with purple and pink lighting, surrounded by grass and potted plants, and a wire fence with debris in the background.

day to death

AS WOMEN, WE LIVE IN A STATE OF HYPER-AWARENESS. I CONSTANTLY ASK MYSELF:

“IS SOMEONE FOLLOWING ME?”

“I WONDER IF THIS VAN IS GOING TO STOP AND TRY TO ABDUCT ME?”

“SHOULD I CHANGE MY TOP?”

“IS THIS UBER SAFE?”.

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Kimshay Philander

A double exposure image of a woman with a gauze bandage over her mouth, holding a large bouquet of flowers and greenery.

Between black & white

Is red

A red that loves

A red that kills

My mother puts me down

& tells me to go on

Go to school &

I weep

I miss her soon as she rides off

Not a day has she not

Worked

That’s where i learnt

Women like my mother

Like my grandmother

Like my aunt

All they know is work

And all they know is

Love

A love that labours

A love that signs heavy

With a day filled with tasks

Boikanyo Mothoagae

Savannah faulmann

A woman with curly red hair in a pink dress standing on dry grass in a coastal landscape with bushes, ocean, and a blue sky.

Textile artwork resembling a monochrome portrait of a person's face.

A monochrome, pixelated portrait of a woman with styled hair, pearl earrings, and a patterned top.

abigale calisse

Amogelang Lesedi

FEMININE GAZE and FEMININE HAZE

Of my watered world,

humilities inferred,

I leave sort of-

in-lung expulsion,

the cuss name orbiting a lesser fate.

Woman gorged, you, three times the woes of a lover and a father,

all of the man’s husk roaming,

Love has no use for fickle things corroding.

Love has no use for wheezing proclivity.

Ever the faze in which you are short breath, sprained, slumping with the unwilling body,

saying ‘I won’t’ with ‘I can’t’ is akin to pulling the skin inside out.

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Drag as a Living Work of Art:

Oxy-Moron on Identity, Joy and Clip-ons

Steff Malherbe

“It’s about doing what makes you happy, even if people tell you you’ll never succeed. If anything, that only fuels me. Because the best feeling in the world is proving people wrong, with a little glitter, of course.”