Hello! Merhaba! Salām! 

awhām is an anti-orientalist, queer, feminist platform dedicated to creating a space for the visibility of artists with migrant backgrounds to tell their stories from decolonized and intersectional perspectives.

In awhām issue #5, we wish to reflect on the struggles of the day woven into the reanimated stories from yesterday in the infinity of the multiverse - an endless variety of worlds and the spaces between them. Destruction and recreation, an active remaking of worlds, rediscovering ones that were lost and forgetting those mapped into our consciousness. What role do ghosts of the past play in deciphering and encoding observations of that which surrounds us?  Where do these ghosts clamber? How can we rethink our understanding of the world through the occult practices and reflect on our relationships which travel through bits of code, moving and transmitting within open waters, and concealed within undersea cables? 

“Insofar as the technosphere is cybernetic, it is inextricable from capitalism and politics.”1

We seek ways to articulate the creative power of world-building within queer and feminist history and politics. We welcome you to share your practices of building shelters and strategies for nourishing gardens, encouraging interconnectedness. 

We invite you to stretch conventional methods, discover and build temporal or spatial portals and pathways between what was, what is, and what could be. 

If you are interested in a potential collaboration, please send us an email at mail@awhammagazine.com 

Deadline for contribution proposals: 30 April 2022

awhām Issue #5 will be released in November 2022. 

We look forward to hearing from you!

 1. Irmgard Emmelhainz, “Authoritarianism and the Cybernetic Episteme, or the Progressive Disappearance of Everything on Earth ,” e-flux, March 2022,