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OUR latest magazine Issue
The Cosy Desi Club Magazine — Issue 3: In Protest
Released in July 2026, Issue 3 brings together 43 contributors from across the diaspora, each responding to the theme In Protest. Across poetry, essays, visual art, photography, music, and experimental work, the issue looks at what it means to resist - on the streets, at home, and in the body.
This issue holds work that confronts genocide, austerity, and the systems and governments that displace and define lives. Alongside this are internal refusals: the daily acts of saying no, of not disappearing into what’s expected.
In Protest moves through anger, solidarity, and survival without trying to resolve them. What comes through in this issue is protest as something that’s both collective and solitary, but always urgent in the way we respond.
Contributors:
Adam Iqbal, Aleena Maryam, Aminah Mahmood, Amish Gudur, Ananya Banda, Ashini Shashidaran, Devika Lishanin, Dhwani (Cypher) Mendi, Duriba Khan, Fareeha Ahmad, Hamza Jahanzeb, HARREE, Humza Syed, Ishika Desai, Judy Jothini, Khola, Maaz Hayat, Maria Mian, Natasha Tareen, Noor Afasa, Omkari Nemani, Pavan Atwal, Prishika Nagar, R. Rafiq, Razali Samsudin, Ridha Mariam, Safiyah Farid, Saira Basravi, Shanti King, Shehla Ali, Shumail Javed, SK Nazib, Soni Kaur, Sonya, Tammy Shafi, Tarrine Khanom, Tatheer Syed, Zahra Amani Miah
FEATURING: Aisha Zia, Sharan Dhaliwal, Heleena Theodore, Shreea Kaul
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Cover photography: @kholaandhercamera
Cover: Gloss Lamination
164 pages
Released in July 2026, our third issue, In Protest, brings together the voices of over 40 contributors from across the diaspora. Through reflections, art, photography, music, and creative projects, the issue looks at what it means to resist - on the streets, at home, and in the body.
Issue 3 holds work that confronts genocide, austerity, and the systems and governments that displace and define lives. Alongside this are internal refusals: the daily acts of saying no, of not disappearing into what’s expected.
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