Tummy Ache is a new magazine that explores the dangers of building up a ‘perfect’ version of the self to present to the world, and hiding from the imperfection and uncertainties of life. This, the magazine says, is in turn dissolving our capacity to feel gratitude, creativity and empathy.
In the first issue of Tummy Ache ('The Vulnerability Issue') psychoanalyst and writer Maxine Mei-Fung Chung speaks about about the warped way women have historically been severed from their desire. Climate activist and founding member of XR Youth, Daze Aghaji, shares her grand vision for the future, which doesn’t discount the inevitability of watching our current society crumble, while comedian Grace Campbell issues a call for nuance and opens up to the magazine about how, as a sex positive performer, when she was sexually assaulted in 2022 she became hyper aware of the binaries within which women are allowed to exist.