POSTSCRIPT is a cultural anthology bringing together the multiplicity of socially engaged and critical thinking women. 

For our fourth issue, we explore the theme of REVERIE, sharing stories of introspective realities, transcendental liberation and escapism. Featuring artists, academics and activists from the UK, US and across Africa, the issue questions the ways in which we can find hope in a chaotic world and considers the bridging of different realities to create new narratives about ourselves, as well as our communities.

Inside, you’ll find interviews with London-based doctor and writer Samara Linton, a conversation between artists Krista Franklin and Hamed Maiye and a roundtable discussion on sex and sexuality as African women. Throughout, whether in editorials or essays, we cover a host of topics on the multiplicity of self, the politics of pleasure and Afro-surrealist storytelling.

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• SAMARA LINTON considers Black mental health and cultural contexts in mental illness

• SAMANTHA RENNALLS & JESSICA DAVIES examine Narrative Therapy as a form of resistance against racist oppression and a tool of psychological liberation

• LUNGA NTILA shares distorted self-portraits which expand on understandings of self and the world

• ALMAZ OHENE questions what space there is for women of colour to be the architects of their own sexual desire and fantasy

• ELVIRA VEDELAGO spotlights the work of two young visual artists who provide an oppositional gaze to the historical portrayal of Black female bodies

• CALIDA RAWLES shares paintings which tell alternative stories of Black bodies, water and freedom

• IRENOSEN OKOJIE examines the use of surrealism in the work of four Black artists who create escapist portals to experience Blackness in a fantastical way

• KRISTA FRANKLIN & HAMED MAIYE consider surrealism as a vehicle for nuanced portrayals of the African diaspora

• CRISTINA DE MIDDEL reimagines the story of the Zambian Space Program some 50 years ago

Cover image is a painting by Calida Rawles, The Space in Which We Travel, 2019.

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Please note: Orders will be posted every Friday. The publication is 68 pages and 380mm x 300mm in size. It arrives flat in an A3 black envelope.