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fucking trump, fucking macron, fucking scholz, fucking starmer, fucking western countrieseverything is so fuckedso fucked it hurts everywhereso fucked i can barely breathei’m not even the most fuckedalthough we’re all fucked fucked fuckedby fucking men, fucking white men, fucking capitalism,…
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Please Do Not Kiss Me
You tell me you like those like me too,“If you get what I mean” with a wink.I’ve spent my life training for thisFor the day I became a fetish objectTo stared at beneath a clean pane of glass.A walking eroticism…
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Save Our Souls
Suddenly it was like nothing mattered,One mere scratch on the cornea of God.Self-imposed within a manmade rapture Silently, nature still evaded our capture.Our blood left on the palms of hands thatSlid the knife into the backs of children. Seeing how…
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Don’t Ask for My Rage—Demand My Rebellion
You tell me to write of my rage. To immortalise it in prose, to strike a match to my pain. But the world is already thick with flames. My anger is just another ember in a blaze that has been…
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Rage to Bring Peace – Basel
Today, the 11th of November, I received a message. His name is Basel. Basel is a Palestinian man, he is a husband and a father to two beautiful children. Lulu is a toddler and Mira is a newborn. Basel’s home…
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Call for Submissions: Rage
Friends, all we feel today is rage. Rage for the migrants who will now, more than ever, be forced to spend their lives looking over their shoulders. Rage for Ukrainians, who have fought aggressive Russian imperial expansionism for almost three…
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Oscar Wilde meets James Baldwin
This reflection on race, oppression and queerness is part of ‘James Baldwin: A Response’, an initiative co-organised by SINK Magazine, Penguin Books and Tomorrow’s Warriors to mark the centennial year of this incomparable poet of the Civil Rights Movement. You…
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James Baldwin: A Response
SINK is delighted to announce its participation in ‘James Baldwin: A Response’, an important initiative to celebrate the legacy of this incomparable poet of the civil rights movement, as we approach the end of his centennial year. The event is…
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Unpacking the Chagos Return Agreement: Justice Fulfilled or Deferred?
In 1965, the 2,000 residents of a tranquil Indian Ocean archipelago, 1,000 miles from the nearest landmass, fell victim to the last spasm of the desiccating British Empire. Desperate to prove its value to its imperial successor as one by…
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Sowing Seeds of Change: A Reflection on the UK’s ‘New Politics’
Following the recent election, the ‘seeds of new politics’ are being sown. That is what the independent MP, Jeremy Corbyn, promised. Yet, even in his own Islington North constituency, the hard right is gaining ground. This is visible with Reform…
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Call for blog submissions: SINK’s role in the ‘new’ Britain
Last Friday, Britain awoke to a radically transformed political landscape. As a magazine with a consciously political agenda – demanding nothing less than justice, dignity, and radiance for all the people in the world – SINK must reflect on what…
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Free Palestine
As an independent magazine, we stand unequivocally with Palestine and with Palestinians. Their courage, creativity, resistance and refusal to stay silent in the face of horrific genocidal violence by Israeli troops and settlers should underline our own imperative to speak…
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Creating Rest: an interview with Claire Fletcher
This is the first in a series of interviews with Northern creatives about rest and what it means to them. In this interview, we ask several questions to Claire Fletcher, who is an illustrator and business owner from Manchester. Q1:…
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Creating Rest: An interview with Megan Jenkins
Welcome to this second interview in the Creating Rest series, this time it’s the turn of St Helens based artist Megan Jenkins to tell us all about what rest means to her: Firstly, what does rest mean to you? For…
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SINK Time III
Welcome the new year with our third series of SINK Time, inspired by our third issue: Utopia. Join us at 18.00 GMT Sunday 28th January for an evening hour of envisioning and imagining. Reflect on your creative outlets and unlock new ways of…
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We stand with Palestine
As Israel prepares for a devastating ground offensive in the haven city of Rafah, in southern Gaza, it is incumbent on all supporters of a free Palestine to restate our unyielding solidarity and to redouble our efforts to support those…
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The M60 & Eulogy: a neurotrippy take on the art of climate crisis
Our current ecological crisis has demanded many shifts in the artistic landscape. In the face of our sixth mass extinction, creativity fosters an envisioning of the future and unburying forgotten rituals. As this apocalypse gives birth to a host of…
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Creating rest: an interview with Weng-U Pun
Hi Weng-U! Thank you so much for taking the time to do this interview with us as we launch the next issue of SINK, your piece “Portrait of a Young Woman” is a real favourite amongst the team! As you…
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SINK Time II
It’s getting colder, so we’re finding new ways of cosying up with a SINK time on our second issue “Intimate: Sex, the Body and Love”. This workshop will flesh out our ways of loving. Attentive to the softer, hidden parts…
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SINK Time 1
Fan the flicker of that cinnamon candle into a flame and embrace the corner of your covers as your creative cavern for a cosy, autumnal hour. Join us at 18.00 GMT Sunday 29th October for a laidback evening of writing activities, inspired…
