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DEPRESSION COOKBOOK
So, we’ve all eaten handfuls of shredded cheese directly out of the fridge at one point or another. Or maybe it was white bread with hot sauce on it. For me, it was spaghetti and ketchup. Copes come in all shapes and sizes.
Here’s some statistics I’m sure you’ve all heard: According to the NHIS, major depression is the most common mental illness in the United States. An estimated 17.3 million adults in the United States had at least one major depressive episode in 2017, and that number has only grown in the years since. We can write 25-page papers about the impact of quarantine on depressive episodes (done that), but so many of us can speak to the subject from firsthand experiences, yours truly included.
So let’s talk.
This publication follows the grand tradition of self-deprecating and tongue-in-cheek forms of addressing depression that seem to pervade internet discourse. More than that, it is the intention of this press to create safe spaces for expressing our traumas and sharing in healing, whether we’re still in the shit of it or if we’re well on the road to recovery.
The world would like to hear your voice.
And maybe rifle through your kitchen cabinets a little too.
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Airports are liminal spaces. Anything can happen in an airport. Recall the last airport you were in. Seriously, think about it for more than two seconds. Doesn’t it feel, well, off? Maybe it’s the state of transit, or maybe it’s just the architecture. There’s just something so goddamn weird about airports that we can’t put our fingers on, but maybe you can. We dare you to question reality. We’d like to hear your theories.
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THE CRAWL
It's a dark and stormy night for crawling dungeons…
Whether it was your small-town parlor LARP, or Dungeons and Dragons with friends in the basement, or screaming across the table over Warhammer in the kitchen, or beating each other with sticks in the park, we've all got some great stories to tell about the realms of fantasy we've inhabited at one time or another. The memories of being other people have a way of staying with us. The impact that roleplay can have on our real lives cannot be understated. What happens in make-believe doesn't always stay segregated. Bleed is real and it has consequences, both positive and negative. The Crawl presents this inner monologue laid bare.
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NOBODY KNOWS YOU’RE A DOG
. . . on the internet. The old joke is more true now than ever. The anonymity of the web has been perhaps one of the most consequential forces to influence the new millennium. From shitposting on image boards to catfishing an internet boyfriend to the spawning of legitimate international terrorist activity, the scope cannot be contained. Badlung Press invites your documentation of interlopement with the obfuscated face of the web, your identity in the marginalia, your criminal anonymity, and the secrecies of others.
We promise not to track your IP.
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PUBLIC // PRIVATE
In this technological age, the outward facing self is a constructed image, carefully curated to display only that aesthetic information we deem worthy of public consumption. What is to be done of the remains? The loneliness of obfuscation has devised a phenomena exclusive to this cultural moment: a slew of social media accounts restricted, but semipermeable. A public form of private, the intersection of the realms and what comes of it. Human beings have kept records of self since the invention of writing, but never have these intimacies been shared to such a degree. Mental illness, questions of the body, relationship woes, and the social taboos we dare not speak aloud. In the age of our greatest connection, our selves are the most selectively redacted. But in these unfiltered digital spaces, difficult realities find safe haven.
We give you now that honesty.
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VOYEUR
Pornography is a subjective term. We fear and desire that which we do not know and find a sexual gratification in understanding. This anthology collects together the provocative, the political, and the shocking, presenting these in a physical reading experience you yourself become the voyeur, peeking through narrow windows into bigger pictures, exploring the relationships derived between framework and subject matter.
This anthology was created in collaboration with Hostile Sphere Press and the Poetry International Chapbook Series.
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