This issue features articles on the theme of ‘home’, which can be a place, space, concept or feeling. It explores the many factors that influence our connection to home, such as relationships, family structures, race, culture, identity, class, poverty and homelessness, and includes a photo-essay about Black queer people’s connection to land and community, and a migrant writer experiencing pressures to assimilate.
Features:
Poverty and home ownership by BRIDGET HARILAOU
An interview with award-winning writer MELISSA FEBOS.
Homophobia in the Catholic Church by SHARON ANGELICI
Homelessness and the housing system by ANONYMOUS
A photo series that celebrates being Black and queer by LATOYA RULE AND DOMINIC GUERRERA
Migrancy and belonging by CB MAKO
Masturbation in your childhood bedroom by CANDY BOWERS
Pressures to reproduce by BREE TURNER
Stripping, sex work and belonging by KAY ESSE
Finding a new way to live after overcoming addiction by MARCUS HOUGH
Healing and thriving after abuse by BO BICKMORE
Developing self-acceptance, comfort and safety by CHRIS CHEERS
Issue 17 comes with a gorgeous PULL-OUT POSTER featuring the artwork ‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone’ by The HUXLEYS.