A Note From the Editors: Issue 38

While Postscript began in Paris and remains an inherently global, cosmopolitan, and diverse magazine, over time we have undoubtedly come to settle roots in the UAE, where a large number of our team are based. It was only a matter of time before we would put out an issue that paid homage to the region from which we derived so much community, as well as our education at the New York University Abu Dhabi campus, an education that continues to inform our aims, goals, and ethos. 

Keeping with the tradition of issue themes that can be widely interpreted, we settled on Gulf, as not only signifying the larger region we were living in, but also creating allusions to gaps, seas, absences – the metaphorical resonance. In that way, this theme almost creates a fascinating paradox. While it is our attempt to connect with more contributors and audiences from our home region – a hand outstretched towards community – it also connotes feelings of emptiness and melancholy, a gulf that is inward and gaping, and possibly exacerbated by the crises that have arisen in the pandemic. With Gulf, we are both reaching out and within to pull out the stories that sing and hurt and matter.

With this issue, we will be taking a three month-long summer hiatus, in which we will pause monthly issue production to focus more on both our internal and external community engagement as a collective. We’re a group of fallible, flawed, wide-eyed humans behind this magazine, and there exist in us, like in everyone, gulfs that need care, nurturing, healing and rest. We have continued to try to create and connect throughout an extremely trying period, while navigating life’s turbulences in extraordinary circumstances. The past few months have proved stratospheric for Postscript’s growth, and we have so much gratitude for everyone who has believed in our work and helped us in any form. We hope to return after our hiatus with renewed strength, positivity, and fresh ideas to continue and expand on what we do. 

Throughout the summer, we will still be publishing standalone projects on our website and remaining active as a community on our social channels. Finally, we ask you to consider helping us support our artists, writers, and creatives, in a time when our industry is particularly unstable, by joining our Patreon community (bit.ly/postreon), which goes directly towards the infrastructural development of our magazine and helps bridge the gulf (ha!) between our team and our audience.

From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you again dear readers and hope to connect even more with you over the coming months.

We’ll see you on the flip side.

Love always,

Zoe & Vamika

Artwork by Mahmood Al Zadjali