Issue 68: Tahirah Sharif
“Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.”
Chuck Palahniuk
Change is a mysterious thing. That’s a bit faux pretentious to say but, truly, how can change in one moment feel like the most wondrous thing to happen, and then in the next, feel like the most terrifying thing? I suppose it’s subjective, dependent on the individual, the context, the time of day and whether we’ve got enough sunlight yet. But I think what we can all agree on is that change, no matter its form, comes with a particular sort of strangeness.
You understand, don’t you, that friction in your bones when change has happened? How nothing seems to quite fit? How the birds seem to fly the same way, yet completely wrong at the same time? So as we eek, gently and then all at once, into this new year, I reckon it’s time to face this strangeness head on. Embrace it for all it has to offer.
Like flashing lights on the catwalk, strangeness walks down to our heckles:
Give me rebellion.
Give me fear.
Give me bravery.
Give me malice.
Give me innovation.
Give me comfort in the uncomfortable.
Give me, EJ68.
BETH BENNETT
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
