Postscript Magazine

Monthly themed issues of art & writing 🌻We tell stories usually saved for the footnotes. Global, with a UAE base 🇦🇪

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ALPHA evokes conversations about hierarchy, dominance, and control.
Artists, writers, filmmakers, poets from all over the world interrogate 'alpha' in our new issue - out now.

Cover photography by the inimitable Shane Rocheleau

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NEW: In our latest art criticism, Arundhati Kalyan reviews ‘Proposals for a Memorial to Partition’ at Dubai’s @JameelArtsCtr, probing the question of whether art & memorialization can do justice to a tragic historical event of this scale

Read here: https://t.co/OpeLezgyKZ

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: the ATTENTION issue @postscriptmag1

A call to action, to look, watch, gaze, concentrate – what do you pay attention to? Where does your attention lie? What does its deficit feel like?

Submission guidelines: https://t.co/XhlxWVCNdk

DEADLINE: 25 November

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: the ATTENTION issue.
A call to action, to look, watch, gaze, concentrate – what do you pay attention to? Where does your attention lie? What does its deficit feel like?
All forms welcome.
Submission guidelines: https://t.co/1l1n6z9l0M

DEADLINE: 25 November

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"Like merchandise, men do not live long." This found poem by Ricky Novaes de Oliveira is composed entirely from words taken from clothes labels and tags, unravelling the many facets of constructed masculinity. With artwork by Sandra Paris

Read here: https://t.co/853CYzVqtw

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Hannah Norris’ poem 'Hackles' explores the discomfiting bizarreness of male behavior towards women in public spaces.

Read here: https://t.co/R3Mm5OA8KK

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In this new essay, our EIC Zoe Jane Patterson (@zo_ehhh) weaves together an analysis of Kendrick Lamar's new album with grief over her relationship with an absent parent

Read here: https://t.co/W8IJdj6fdL

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Iranian multidisciplinary artist Zahra Mohamadi undercuts our constrictive constructions of gender in her visual art series "Masculinity". A series and artist to pay heightened attention to given the current political regime in Iran.

See the full series: https://t.co/TM5dHiV1yc

[P.W. Bridgman, Writer @PWB_writer1]

2/ My poem is entitled "Ariana Grande Comes to Lunch: A Modern Tableau En Famille". (Content warning: man-buns come in for some gentle mockery.) If I succeed with the suite (tentatively, "A Curmudgeon's Diary"), some endearing features will show through.

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[P.W. Bridgman, Writer @PWB_writer1]

1/ We all know a curmudgeon or two--men of a certain age who are bewildered by the modern world, can't quite get with the program & often say things that make their families cringe. I have a suite of poems developing about such a man. The first appears here. (Thanks, PS Editors!)

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Finished reading this spectacular essay by @SondraRBrooks in new Alpha issue of @postscriptmag1 https://t.co/Y1hQ6hi4dH

[Kaashif Hajee @HajeeKaashif]

A labor of love from so many wonderful, talented people all over the world - I’m thrilled and honored to be on the team! Do check out this latest issue ❤️❤️❤️

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Swiveling between memories in Sharjah, Dubai, and Cairo, Noor Tannir’s (@noortannir) vulnerable personal essay grapples with themes of anxiety, grief, and family illness

https://t.co/6W3t2hvxDm