In the third issue, themed ‘refuge’:
- Photographs by Moath Alofi documenting remote, abandoned and makeshift mosques in Saudi Arabia
- An essay in words, photographs and ephemera by Felix Bazalgette on disparate lives in a village near Heathrow
- An erotic prose poem by Alex Bennett
- Paul Clinton considering the problem of queer ethics
- Gareth Evans on the Armenian genocide, diaspora and absence
- Britt Hill on the squats providing sanctuary for refugees in Athens
- Every Ocean Hughes on changing her name
- Stills from the Jasleen Kaur video installation I Keep Telling Them These Stories
- A short story by William Kherbek from the graveyard shift at ILoveItCafe
- A speculative tale by Joanne McNeil
- A selection from the Sabelo Mlangeni series Country Girls depicting queer life in rural South Africa
- New work by Prem Sahib documenting a derelict sauna prior to its demolition
- New work from a project by Sam Williams made at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
- A selection of drawings by Lucy Atherton,Todd Bura, Colter Jacobsen and Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings
- A very personal archive from the editors, recounting life in the early 2000s in San Francisco, a ‘city of refuge’, comprising photographic work by Jamie Atherton and an essay by Jeremy Atherton Lin originally published in Index magazine in 2003
- The debut of our first regular column, in which Bryony Quinn examines the etymology of the issue’s theme
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