On the last day of May, two weeks before the final edition of ISSUE was slated to come out, 20-odd people assembled in the humble flat of our editor Lutfi,…
This collaboration came from an alter ego I had conjured and kept alive in my mind for a while now; a fantasy, an idea, a version of me with tattoos I…
It started with a nightmare. Playwright Nassim Soleimanpour standing on stage, about to commit suicide in front of an audience that included his family and friends. This spurred the seeds…
Back in January when Syaz and I were in Cepronia, the loft hangout of local band Shh…Diam!, Syaz picked up a tote bag with an awesome illustration of Slovenian philosopher…
Shh…Diam!‘s rhythm guitarist Yon is recovering from a cold. This makes her voice husky, raspy, and downright plaintive when she gets excited or jokingly defensive, and it is the best…
When I think of Other, I think of holding the exact same stone in the palm of each hand, trying to measure a difference in weight. I think of standing…
I first met Kim Khaira at an activism and empowerment workshop for young women and transwomen back in August. She immediately came across as someone very clued in, outspoken, and…
Inspiration for this piece comes from Roxane Gay’s amazing story Contrapasso Enjoy some musical accompaniment in the form of a YouTube playlist at the very end.
This project came about one evening at The Loaf in Empire, a table between the three of us barely enough to hold the pastries we came to eat together and…
I’m not sure I know a people more hungry for content, culture, and art than us Malaysians and our Southeast-Asian neighbours. Specifically, locally made content, culture, and art — that…
What initially drew you to photography, and how long have you been doing it? Have your motivations remained the same? I bought my first (and current) DSLR about four years…
you can listen to this poem being read out below when someone asks you what you want, tap two fingers to your forehead and when someone asks you what you’re…
