Volume Six: Garbage

When we first chose the theme for this issue, we didn’t intend for it to be quite so on the nose.

“Garbage” had long been on our list of topics to cover in our normally abnormal way. It’s weird, but also deeply sensory—someone says the word garbage and you can immediately picture it (and smell it, too). After an edible and a few puffs, we started to wonder what a different perspective on garbage could look like. Plus, the idea of calling something the “Garbage Issue” just made us laugh. And so, here we are.

Volume Six includes Conversations with chef Sophia Roe, activist Emily Barker, designer Sarah Nsikak, and writer Anand Giridharadas; meditations on space junk, garbage time, houseflies, and loss; and art by Arielle Bobb Willis, Rajni Jacques, Ekua King, and David Brandon Geeting; and much, much more. We hope Volume Six offers some kind of escape. After all, like five o’clock, it’s always garbage somewhere. 

Volume Five: Flower

Better late than never, the newest volume of Gossamer—the Flower Issue—has finally blossomed.

Featuring Conversations with the poet Fariha Róisín, actor Adam Pally, musician Soko, and bail activist Arissa Hall, features by the likes of Anjali Khosla, Foster Kamer, and Nina St. Pierre, and art by creatives including Daveed Baptiste, Bobby Doherty, and Stella Murphy, we hope Volume Five will give you a colorful distraction and some much needed respite from the world today.

This issue goes deep inside the idea of, well, inside. 

From the Finnish concept of inner fortitude to how cannabis affects the most intimate parts of our bodies to instructions on how to make magazine within a magazine, Volume Four explores all the different ways one can be inside—or outside, for that matter.

Cover art by Leeor Wild. Scroll down for more from inside this issue—no pun intended.