Audio Recordings
Edited by Mell Chun
ESSAY
Notes on a BLACKPINK (Sort Of) Revolution *coming soon*
As of 2020 BLACKPINK, the world’s biggest K-pop girl group, still lived in a dorm. Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa and Rosé —women in their mid-twenties whose lyrics include, ‘You’re the cherry piece, just stay on top of me’ and ‘Get the bag with the cream if you know what I mean’ — were contractually forbidden from dating.
BY S.L. LIM
Notes on a BLACKPINK (Sort Of) Revolution *coming soon*
As of 2020 BLACKPINK, the world’s biggest K-pop girl group, still lived in a dorm. Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa and Rosé —women in their mid-twenties whose lyrics include, ‘You’re the cherry piece, just stay on top of me’ and ‘Get the bag with the cream if you know what I mean’ — were contractually forbidden from dating.
BY S.L. LIM
NON-FICTION
Island Time: Animal Crossing and Sacred Hospitality ︎︎︎
You spend the early pandemic laid up at your partner’s parents’ home, their new baby brother asleep in their bedroom for ease of access. There is a joyful spread of Animal Crossing across Twitter, its coincidence with multiple aesthetics reimagined in-game: Cottagecore, light/dark academia, perfect e-recreations of Harajuku.
BY JOSIE DEANE
POETRY
ex malo bonum *coming soon*
exposed limbs dance
across liminalspace
catching
in crevice cracked
where watersnake moulded
BY RAELEE LANCASTER
INTERVIEW
In Defence Of The Fenceless *coming soon*
As a Narrm-based Ballardong Noongar woman and urban planner-turned-nonfiction writer, space and place have always been the focus for Timmah Ball. Now, after two years of compression and a recent relocation back to Perth, Timmah is refining her perspective to find ways to hold space, rather than to shape it.
BY SAM CANNON
In Defence Of The Fenceless *coming soon*
As a Narrm-based Ballardong Noongar woman and urban planner-turned-nonfiction writer, space and place have always been the focus for Timmah Ball. Now, after two years of compression and a recent relocation back to Perth, Timmah is refining her perspective to find ways to hold space, rather than to shape it.
BY SAM CANNON
POETRY
Smoke & Mirrors *coming soon*
We unpack the weight of each day
Dusk fades and night falls
Like a farm we are bound
In a yard that is free yet framed
BY HANI ABDILE
POETRY
Medusa tries MDMA for the first time *coming soon*
in the club, which is cheaper than therapy. If you move the body first, the mind might follow. Think of yourself as a door. Instigate a laugh from the bouncer, crush up a hug. Know that the door bitch
is an oracle.
BY IZZY ROBERTS-ORR
INTERVIEW
In Conversation with Deborah Cheetham *coming soon*
I want to begin by asking about the lovely self-description you give of yourself: Yorta Yorta by birth, Stolen Generation by government policy, soprano by diligence, composer by necessity, lesbian by practice. Is there anything you might change or add to it now?
BY DECLAN FRY