A Fucking Magazine #2

A Fucking Magazine #2

This issue, titled Mind Games, explores the puzzles our thoughts create—how they shift, deceive, and reshape across love, memory, and identity. With essays, fiction, photography, and poetry from leading contemporary voices, the issue takes on affirmations, revisions, and the rewrites we make to our own stories, turning assumptions inside out. AFM Issue 2 continues Feeld’s mission to expand conversations around intimacy and culture, asking readers to look closer. And then look again. 

Nan Goldin & Kelsey Lu Reunite for AFM 

Cellist and musician Kelsey Lu is the cover star of AFM Issue 2, accompanied by photos taken by legendary photographer and activist Nan Goldin. Shot on location, Lu’s ongoing friendship with Goldin radiates throughout the series, which are a masterwork of grace, trust, and beauty. Lu speaks with former Pitchfork EIC and music journalist Puja Patel, and in their conversation Lu reflects on creativity, performance, control, and desire. 

Dreams, Fantasies, Affirmations, and Memories 

AFM Issue 2 showcases the power of artistic freedom, offering a platform for creators to express, experiment, and redefine their work.  Essays, fiction, poetry, interviews, and visual pieces from contributors such as Jamie Hood, Hannah Black, Jamieson Webster, Carl Phillips, Sarah Miller, Torbjorn Rodland, James Ivory, Catherine Lacey, and Mona Chalabi, among many others, all offer their own perspective on the tricks our mind plays on or with us. 

“Each issue of AFM aims to make an incision in time: capturing the specificity of how we experience relationships now while creating something lasting and beautiful,” explains Maria Dimitrova, founding co-editor of AFM. “ Issue 2 marks a subtle evolution of our original editorial and design vision, bringing together poets, novelists, musicians, visual artists, and Feeld members in conversations that seek to expand how intimacy can be experienced and expressed, on and off the page.”