Elise Lawrence speaks to artists, athletes, dancers and sex workers about their relationships with their body, and how this changed when their body became their job.

The air outside was cold – goose bumps rippled on my skin as I stepped through, not entirely sure where to put my hands. I was entirely naked in a garden full of strangers in the middle of winter – it seemed like an embarrassing dream I might have had as a child.

But nobody looked at me. Nobody cared. Everybody else was naked too.

In less than a month I turn 30. You might say I have been kinda, maybe, definitely stressing out over this. But the stress has not been without its positives – mainly what I have learnt this year. 

Come with us on a journey, a bookstore-crawl, through the many book stores that Brisbane has to offer. 

Contemporaries is a new Sydney based membership group offering exclusive art experiences and money-can’t-buy access to intimate art world events and launches. Sounds neat huh? We think so.

We had a chat with Tommi PG (aka Katie Parrish), comic artist and art editor at The Lifted Brow about drawing, careers, cerebral junk food, and narrative lube.

"Sometimes I forget to take my meds and it feels like everything is fading in and out of focus. It’s like that feeling of having a rug pulled out from under you, but all in your head."

"Like the lovers of history before me—Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, Bert and Ernie—I too have a tragic tale to tell of woe and redemption..."

We had a chat to the Creative Director of The Push Bianca Annamie about collaboration, education and representation.

Marianna gives us her top tips for readjusting to life back home after travelling abroad. 

Before hitting up this year’s Zine and Indie Comics Symposium in South Brisbane, I couldn't have told you what a zine was, let alone how to pronounce it (I genuinely thought it rhymed with 'vine', it just never clicked for me)

We spoke to Raymond Williams, co-director of Jungle Love Festival, about event and festival planning, cracking the business and what we can expect from Jungle Love number two. 

We have a chat with Tatanja Ross,  founder of creative company On Jackson Street and artist in her own right, about her photography project Thanks For Having Me which invites people into the creative spaces of artists. 

"My boyfriend asked me to quit with him. At first I was horrified at what he was asking of me but when someone you deeply love asks you to stop slowly poisoning yourself to death, it is hard to say no."

If you’re Australian you’ve undoubtedly heard of the Reclaim Australia movement, but now we need to make sure that the loudest voices are not also the least informed.

"Nestled in the leafy backstreets of Paddington, Fox & Rabbit is sitting pretty on Kennedy Terrace, easily identified by the adorable window decal featuring a rad fox and rabbit duo."

Melbourne based graphic designer and creative all-rounder Tess McCabe has recently launched her own independent publishing company, Creative Minds Publishing. We spoke to her about all things creative in our recent interview.

"The miniskirt is a revolutionary piece of clothing. It was a tangible manifestation of the changing attitudes of women in decades past and even now."  Zara talks miniskirts and feminism. 

"Journalists by trade, Sanja Grozdanic and Tess Martin designed Krass Journal to be savoured, pondered over and questioned by its’ readers..." Check out our chat with the founders of Krass.

"It is too simplistic to divide our emotions into categorical ‘positive’ or ‘negative’ when experiences of nostalgia are also existent." Marianna talks defining nostagia. 

Dick Smith of Dick­-Smith­-the-­pilot-­slash-­millionaire­businessman fame has crawled out of his cave and has announced plans to compete with Tony Abbott. So what's this all about?

"You drink wine at dinner, no matter what: Attempts to protest that you’re on antibiotics is met with a sigh and a half a glass being poured by your slightly insulted host."  - Marianna talks French stereotypes. 

Jump over to our Pozible Camaign to pick up a discounted copy of mous magazine issue #1. 

Perched on Vulture Street in West End, Junky Comics holds an amazing array of alternative comics and zines. Check out our chat with owner Vlada.

"Starting a career in the arts can be likened to throwing yourself into a full scale battlefield. So when people question your choice to enter the field because they think you might fail, it feels like a massive kick in the face."

Marianna J. Ross shares the trials, tribulations and (rare) moments of light experienced during long-haul flights. 

"The key to representation is depicting an entire experience, and not a sanitised one. So I want to de-romanticise the hardest time in my queer life so far: High School. "

"In my incapacitated state I learned how to Kill Bill my way to consciousness (remember that ‘Wriggle your big toe’ scene? My paralytic limbs were grateful for that advice)."

The theatrical performance Hard To Watch Circus is a part of this years Fringe World, an annual arts festival held in Perth. Zach Relph was there, and he thinks you should be too.