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Mal

@mal_journal

Essays, fiction poetry. Supported by @feeldco

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Joined October 2018
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Collective Turn-off – Sophie Lewis – Mal

Collective Turn-off – Sophie Lewis – Mal

I think human beings are turned off right now. Of course it is tempting to rationalise our turned-off-ness with reference to Covid-19. But it is not – it can never be – the teeming, vaporous,...

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Diane Williams, reading and in conversation with Thomas Jones for the @LRB podcast! lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-video…
Podcast: Diane Williams and Thomas Jones · Try, Try, Try Again

Podcast: Diane Williams and Thomas Jones · Try, Try, Try Again

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For @bookforum, I wrote about Octavia Butler's visionary Black science fiction, and I'm so happy my piece is the cover story: bookforum.com/print/2801/oct… @bookforum
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A Type of Vertigo by Diane Williams on Mal maljournal.com/5/sex-negativ… via @mal_journal
A Type of Vertigo – Diane Williams – Mal

A Type of Vertigo – Diane Williams – Mal

For many years she was in that village in the form of a wife, an unloving wife, and things could not have been improved upon.

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Collective Turn-off by Sophie Lewis on Mal "The truth is that we are too overworked, under capitalism, to be deeply, collectively horny, too overworked even to realise that this is the case." maljournal.com/5/sex-negativ… via @mal_journal
Collective Turn-off – Sophie Lewis – Mal

Collective Turn-off – Sophie Lewis – Mal

I think human beings are turned off right now. Of course it is tempting to rationalise our turned-off-ness with reference to Covid-19. But it is not – it can never be – the teeming, vaporous,...

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Incel Protocols by Philip Maughan on Mal maljournal.com/5/sex-negativ… via @mal_journal
Incel Protocols – Philip Maughan – Mal

Incel Protocols – Philip Maughan – Mal

To exist on the modern Internet is to participate in the expansion and refinement of a planetary-scale data set. To prove you’re not a robot, you help to educate a robot, describing pictorial...

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We're ecstatic to share that How To Wash A Heart by Bhanu Kapil has won the T.S. Eliot Prize 2020!! @tseliotprize bit.ly/bhanukapil
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~Aug 2020: ANTI-EROTICS issue 5 @mal_journal launch reading (alongside @K_Scanlan_, @sasha_bonet, @kimmoorepoet, @CampMarmalade, @mimosa_montes, @Stoya, Philip Maughan, Diane Williams and Sam Riviere. youtube.com/watch?v=34Gl1oTB…
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Trove, a newsletter of backlist book recommendations, coming January 2021. Subscribe at the link in our bio.
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On contamination, sexuality and pandemic erotics – I can't stop re-reading this article @reproutopia @mal_journal maljournal.com/5/sex-negativ…
Collective Turn-off – Sophie Lewis – Mal

Collective Turn-off – Sophie Lewis – Mal

I think human beings are turned off right now. Of course it is tempting to rationalise our turned-off-ness with reference to Covid-19. But it is not – it can never be – the teeming, vaporous,...

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Beloved polymath Wayne Koestenbaum is gracing us with a collection of fables... reminding me even the louche can learn lessons. Galleys are ready now. mitpress.mit.edu/books/cheer…
The Cheerful Scapegoat

The Cheerful Scapegoat

In his first book of short fiction—a collection of whimsical, surreal, baroque, ribald, and heartbreaking fables—Wayne Koestenbaum takes the gloom and me...

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⚡️Announcing 5 x £200 grants to support Black artists to create new print work @rabbitsroadpress ⚡️ The New Work Fund 2020 is specifically for Black artists who want to use Risograph in their work. Deadline 4th December Full details: rabbitsroadpress.com/open-ca…
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A huge congratulations to @Thisbhanu @daisylafarge and @SashaDugdale on being shortlisted for the @tseliotprize! #tseliotprize2020
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Here's the fabulous T. S. Eliot 2020 shortlist: Natalie Diaz, Sasha Dugdale , Ella Frears, Will Harris, Wayne Holloway-Smith, Bhanu Kapil, Daisy Lafarge, Glyn Maxwell, Shane McCrae and J O Morgan. tseliot.com/prize/the-t-s-el…
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You can read @SashaDugdale’s Welfare Handbook in Issue 4 online. maljournal.com/4/real-girls/…
Welfare Handbook – Sasha Dugdale – Mal

Welfare Handbook – Sasha Dugdale – Mal

A female peacock would be a monstrosity what shape would it assume? How hard it is to envisage a building that goes up and up. When I write about this, shall I bang my fist on the pound of paper to...

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You can also read @Thisbhanu’s Seven Poems for Seven Flowers and Love in All Its Forms and @daisylafarge’s essay Can You Be a Revolutionary & Still Love Flowers? in Issue 3. maljournal.com/3/plantsex
PLANTSEX – Mal

PLANTSEX – Mal

On botany and eroticism in three essays and seven poems. Print edition co-edited in collaboration with Serpentine Galleries.

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JUST ANNOUNCED! On 5 Nov, Daisy Lafarge will read from and discuss her debut collection LIFE WITHOUT AIR (@GrantaBooks) with Rachael Allen Book here: lrb.me/f1h
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'What would it be to live a life in which even one petal was unfurled?' From Seven Poems for Seven Flowers and Love in All Its Forms by @Thisbhanu for Issue 3. maljournal.com/3/plantsex/bh…
Seven Poems for Seven Flowers and Love in All Its Forms – Bhanu Kapil – Mal

Seven Poems for Seven Flowers and Love in All Its Forms – Bhanu Kapil – Mal

‘This is the immortal flower. A geometry of yellow. Nobody in the foreground or the background. Instead, positioned, there she is. Straddling the calyx: a blue woman, a woman holding two babies in...

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