Issue 05
- Out Now -
Issue 05 - Out Now -
ByXtra Wants You to Crop Gendered Clothes
Japanese-Filipino creator Stan Fukase has a thing or two to say about crop tops, gender, and expectations placed upon queer men.
An Interview with Depop Drama: The Bizarre Shit That Happens in the DM’s
The creator of Depop Drama talks going viral, being anonymous, and making people on the internet laugh.
Dear Santa,
So selfishly I will tell you what I want if you’ll listen. Maybe this year at Christmas, my smile, like the snow, will glisten.
Fuck Moving On: In Defense of Being Friends with Your Ex
An argument for breaking the post-breakup golden rule.
Plant a Seed There to Remember You: The Importance of Helium’s Dirt of Luck
Why Helium’s debut album deserves to be remembered as one of the greats of the 1990s.
Creating Universal Nostalgia: An Interview with Rosa Dias, Costume Designer for Netflix’s Sex Education
“Nostalgia is a very personal thing. It relates to age, culture, and how you’ve been brought up. It was tricky to work out how we could create the concept of nostalgia and make it work all over the world.”
Q&A: Sam Appleby
Singer-songwriter Sam Appleby on his creative process, experience in the Edinburgh music scene, and what it’s like blowing up on TikTok.
Love Stories: A Brief Analysis of What It Means to Love and Be Loved in an Age of Confusion and Disillusionment
If I have learned anything, there is something beautiful about being able to wear your heart on your sleeve, even if it’s not in season to do so.
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“One thing you need to know about me is that I am an absolute idealist. I see everything in this lens. Everything can be so magical if we a little kinder and more open. We are drafts and can all be made into masterpieces. Sometimes you need to dig into the dirt and explore things about yourself that you don’t want to see. It’s not about pretending to be perfect. This is why my work is the way that it is.”
— Marta Lamovsek
Interview by Anna Niederlander
“In the wake of COVID-19 (I know I'm sick of talking about it too but bare with me) we’ve found ourselves spending more time with ourselves than ever before. When we’re not baking banana bread or trying to stay caught up with the latest TikTok trends, there’s only so much you can do with your day that’s not just sitting & drowning in your thoughts (fun right !!!!!!!). When our world feels so scary & uncertain, why not delve into a fictional world that remains perfectly untouched and exactly the same as when you left it ?”
— Maya Dhanjal
“In this relationship, I learned that the inkling I had about my interest in kink was correct. When I trusted him to set the rules, to tell me what to do, and how and when to do it, to make painstakingly clear what I should be doing at every second, to bring me back into the moment with punishment when I slip up and lose focus—all that anxiety went away. When I let him push the limits of what I am capable of and what I can take from him—the space in my head for self-consciousness and outside thoughts shrank and shrank until I could only be there, experiencing what he gave me.”