https://noexitsmag.com no exits Mon, 23 Jun 2025 03:48:39 +0000 https://noexitsmag.com en https://noexitsmag.com/Soft-header Sun, 13 Apr 2025 07:19:52 +0000 no exits https://noexitsmag.com/Soft-header Spring/Summer 2025: Soft Editorial notes https://noexitsmag.com/NN-I-looked-into-the-valley Tue, 25 Mar 2025 02:12:34 +0000 no exits https://noexitsmag.com/NN-I-looked-into-the-valley I looked into the valley and the valley looked back Nick Naudi A year ago, in our kitchen, I looked up at my wife and drunkenly said, I think I’m trans. I had never said the words out loud. I didn’t know how else to unburden myself from the weight they carried in my head so I tumbled them out like rocks into her hands. She knew what to do with them as much as I did, and so they continued to tumble, awkwardly, clatteringly. Eventually, I cut my hair. I borrowed her clothes, her men’s clothes. And it felt good, it felt complete, it felt like coming home. <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0568e52b05e56fdc311e2d36ca31ba695c4437537ae493e08518e553f33ae4c6/Naudi_1.jpg" data-mid="228745548" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0568e52b05e56fdc311e2d36ca31ba695c4437537ae493e08518e553f33ae4c6/Naudi_1.jpg" /> https://noexitsmag.com/SP-Tender-joint Tue, 25 Mar 2025 01:57:01 +0000 no exits https://noexitsmag.com/SP-Tender-joint tender joint Sun Park Note: this essay includes descriptions of bodily pain. After a sharp, electric shock pain in my finger joint, I made up my mind to see a doctor. The swelling had started weeks ago, shifting from visibly puffy fingers to itchy redness around the joints. At first, I thought it was a bug bite or an allergic reaction. Pollen, food, something passing. Then one morning, I woke up with severely swollen fingers, the pressure squeezing my joints, pressing against my bones. The pain was piercing, like shards of glass lodged in joints or a ball of needles rolling around under my skin. <img width="2880" height="1636" width_o="2880" height_o="1636" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e9dfdb72be6f700dc1972084139cf8b0fb84bb2f97b3d2a89e5247a7e08ff106/Image-1.png" data-mid="228745347" border="0" data-scale="83" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e9dfdb72be6f700dc1972084139cf8b0fb84bb2f97b3d2a89e5247a7e08ff106/Image-1.png" /> https://noexitsmag.com/HB-on-soft-cinema Tue, 25 Mar 2025 02:27:05 +0000 no exits https://noexitsmag.com/HB-on-soft-cinema on soft cinema Harry Bayley Staring blindly at the screen, scrolling through the fifth Family Guy x Subway Surfers TikTok in a row, there is a moment of overlap. Our subway surfer Jake almost appears to be running through the Peak District as the two videos and my interests collide. For a moment, I wonder if there is some kind of poetic potential within the TikTok machine. <img width="650" height="488" width_o="650" height_o="488" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/56558ba4b61bc7f8ee712566e6334740c49b327ab07bfd73eab021a5d4977398/soci_07.jpg" data-mid="228745616" border="0" data-scale="78" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/650/i/56558ba4b61bc7f8ee712566e6334740c49b327ab07bfd73eab021a5d4977398/soci_07.jpg" /> https://noexitsmag.com/SW-Yuka-Hayashi Sun, 13 Apr 2025 04:17:51 +0000 no exits https://noexitsmag.com/SW-Yuka-Hayashi Yuka Hayashi’s home body: Drawing delight and hope from not seeing forward Sarah White This conversation between Yuka and Sarah begins with the concept of “home body.” This term differs from the common idiom “homebody,” which generally refers to staying at home. Instead, “home body” here serves as a conceptual term with which to explore what it means to inhabit the body as one’s home, and acknowledge the present felt sense of the body. <img width="4680" height="3744" width_o="4680" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d1904da200530574f7a677ff502be1367e263d64bcca1bbb42e93b789793307b/Image2_Queer-Club_Yuka.JPG" data-mid="229727942" border="0" data-scale="66" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d1904da200530574f7a677ff502be1367e263d64bcca1bbb42e93b789793307b/Image2_Queer-Club_Yuka.JPG" /> https://noexitsmag.com/RR-Soft-spoken Tue, 01 Apr 2025 02:39:26 +0000 no exits https://noexitsmag.com/RR-Soft-spoken Being a Soft-Spoken Girl: Between Reluctance and Acceptance Rebecca Ricci Naturally, a child with a soft and gentle voice, unable to retort, adults around me elevated this quality of being “good” and soft-spoken as an added virtue to my character. I found myself playing at friends’ houses, only to be used by their parents as a benchmark to educate them: “Don’t you see how kind she is? Why can’t you be like that?” If only they knew the mantra my mother would repeat to me before she said goodbye: “Always ask for permission, apologise, say please, and thank you – ALWAYS!” A repetitive chant, at times almost painful, which I took to heart and still hear echoing in my mind today. <img width="834" height="900" width_o="834" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9225d82dd15ea47d8cf6374f85734456e98bc628c1042595e07e398a4ac2047b/IMG_0344.jpg" data-mid="229090061" border="0" data-scale="56" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/834/i/9225d82dd15ea47d8cf6374f85734456e98bc628c1042595e07e398a4ac2047b/IMG_0344.jpg" /> https://noexitsmag.com/VG-Song-Xin Sun, 13 Apr 2025 06:17:55 +0000 no exits https://noexitsmag.com/VG-Song-Xin Song Xin: Agency, Recursivity, and the Body's Soft Technology Veronica Gisondi To Song Xin, the soft boundaries of the body — both as subject and object of inquiry — are the primary interface that mediates and often heightens the productive tension that binds us to technology. Throughout her practice, Xin has been exploring ways bodies resist, rupture, and reconstruct themselves through their relationship with technical systems. <img width="1279" height="1600" width_o="1279" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5e42f295f3c28533300990d2fdd5af818b65541f437ab3112903a7bf9003779/Song-Xin-2.jpeg" data-mid="229728986" border="0" data-scale="47" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d5e42f295f3c28533300990d2fdd5af818b65541f437ab3112903a7bf9003779/Song-Xin-2.jpeg" /> https://noexitsmag.com/SL-Yun-Cheng Mon, 23 Jun 2025 03:48:39 +0000 no exits https://noexitsmag.com/SL-Yun-Cheng Yun Cheng, THE LIVING BODY (2024) Sandra Lam The performance features three dancers moving gently with their bodies as the music goes on, creating a state of calmness where actions are guided by intuition. Hand. Shoulder. Head. Spine. Knee. Feet. <img width="720" height="404" width_o="720" height_o="404" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/336d89e8857d679810fa72bbca8efc5e6219626ccaf3f603bd7163465ef13725/046f23_4e46242721dc40bca962a28f74fe7992mv2.jpg-copy.jpg" data-mid="234875689" border="0" data-scale="78" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/336d89e8857d679810fa72bbca8efc5e6219626ccaf3f603bd7163465ef13725/046f23_4e46242721dc40bca962a28f74fe7992mv2.jpg-copy.jpg" /> https://noexitsmag.com/Foil-header Sun, 18 Aug 2024 11:37:19 +0000 no exits https://noexitsmag.com/Foil-header Spring/Summer 2024: Foil Editorial notes https://noexitsmag.com/AXL-Miserable-Miracle Sun, 18 Aug 2024 11:31:22 +0000 no exits https://noexitsmag.com/AXL-Miserable-Miracle Miserable Miracle A.X. Ledesma Around 13 years ago, a friend of mine shared a bizarre video called ‘BongBong LRT Speech (w subtitles)’, featuring a man on the LRT reciting a largely continuous monologue in a mixture of English, Filipino, fragments of broken Spanish, and unintelligible gibberish. He is interrupted twice. The first pause seems to be prompted by a security guard asking him not to disturb the other passengers. His silence lasts for a few seconds before his rant continues. The second disruption takes on the form of a threat. <img width="2000" height="1250" width_o="2000" height_o="1250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9dc3cf6851d872d4f7aac4ceb8611b6812312a56647c5aa04dff61e6fc74127a/01LRT.png" data-mid="216556704" border="0" data-scale="80" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9dc3cf6851d872d4f7aac4ceb8611b6812312a56647c5aa04dff61e6fc74127a/01LRT.png" />