Initial: Issue 2 Launch Party

You're invited to come hang the fuck out

Hello! It’s been a long time since I last wrote you because I have been busy working on lots of irl projects and finding myself increasingly unable to open the computer or look at my phone. By night, I dream of Luddites and their rage-flung clogs. By day, I bother colleagues in their classrooms vs sending another email and print long articles on the teacher’s lounge copier. I get lost driving because I can’t bear to give more of my data to Maps.

Initial Magazine, a project I started with spritely chaos demon + smart gal Martha Daghlian last year, represents another insistent return to the analog world. We use a printer in town, we don’t sell issues online, and we don’t use pre-made templates. We stock at local spots: Lost Avenue Books, Mother Foucault’s, Word Virus, Powell’s, and Nationale, who will host our next launch party.

Come hang out, pick up an issue, check out Amy Bay’s work in the gallery, meet the contributors, and make a new pal. This party won’t have a formal reading because we don’t want people to have to do more stuff!! We do enough!! Hope to see you there.

xo

Jaydra

PS. Initial won’t have a website, but we are starting a Ghost so that writers can have accessible online evidence of their work. I’ll be importing my list from Substack over there, so watch out for that email. Of course, feel free to unsubscribe if you aren’t interested in getting those emails.