Queer/ Trans* | Australian/Aotearoa

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.