About Boshemia

In March 2020, we temporarily paused production on our sixth full length issue of Boshemia Magazine, expecting to be able to restart the machine in just a matter of weeks. Three years on, we’ve gathered the shattered pieces of our old lives and shovelled away the debris left behind by COVID, and we’re back – bigger and better than ever.

DISTANCE features a compendium of work collected over the course of the pandemic. We chose the theme very purposefully – it was a time of great loneliness, of empty streets, of physical and emotional distance. We wanted to honour what was perhaps the strangest period of time our generation will know.

DISTANCE features work from across the globe, with titles including:

• DEATH BEFORE DETRANSITION • Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

• Memory Lane • Lucy Rose

• The Golden Rivers • Nadeem Ahmad

• Continuum: Time in Two Poems • Magdalena Nawrocka-Weekes

• The AV Club and the Contentification of Content • Sarah Q

• The Warmest Blues • Eileen Elizabeth Espinoza

• The Distance Between Us While You Are Sitting Right Next To Me • Sarah L

and many, many more.

DISTANCE is out now. ORDER your copy now!

The latest mini zine from BOSHEMIA muses on the joys and foibles of queerness.

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After multiple setbacks through covid and personal tragedies, we are thrilled to present OUT: A Mini Zine. This has been a labour of love and patience, and pulls together careful prose, vulnerable poetry, and outright silliness in triumphant celebration of Queerness.

Featuring fruit-based poetry, an interview with a trans man about his recent pregnancy, musings about being gay in the club, a well-considered review of Lady Gaga Chromatica Oreos (UK vs US versions) and much, much more.

Available in a VERY limited print run, or digitally thereafter, so we strongly advise you to preorder to avoid disappointment.

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POWER challenges artists and writers to think broadly about everyday acts, big movements, small gestures, social structures, individual actions, personal autonomy, and the general imbalance of power.

In this issue you’ll find a confessional essay about growing up in poverty and challenging the imbalances of capitalism, our power dressing icons, a symposium on Muslim women gaining the right to driving in the KSA, a fable about the sun and wind, a fairytale about death, notes to the universe on its phobia of trans and nonbinary folk, and a photoseries which finds superwoman in a Ugandan market.

BODIES is a celebration and exploration of the corporeal delights, nuances and complications of the human body. In a time and place where loving your own body is a radical act, where taking ownership of your body and using it as a site of self-expression and nonconformity is considered ‘out of the ordinary’, we bring you a collection of work which champions and explores the various experiences of having a body.

The content ranges from musings on pilgrimages to self love, discussions on abortion in Brazil and art as activism, to feeling displaced in and alienated by the sex-positive strands of feminism, reconnecting with our essential selves and the bodily effects of antidepressants, to navigating clothing as a non-cis person, and reflections on death.

TECHNOLOGY & THE SUBLIME celebrates digital human progress and extends a loving embrace to the neglected yet nourishing sublime natural world. This issue features articles on space, sex robots, global warming, the rise of emojis, poetry championing nature and lesbian sex, a guided walk through a genderless utopia, and speculation on the taboo of female pleasure.