Purple 40
The Revolutions Issue

Purple Magazine #40, The Revolutions Issue – Fall/Winter 2023

/ Issue 40

Purple Magazine 40, The Revolutions Issue.
«No one believes anymore in the idea of revolution. It’s a term from the past, associated with violence, political failures, and lost illusions. Yet, deep within us all, we see the need for radical change. My generation dreamed of an artistic alternative, an indie counterculture, and a cyber-punk underground. But we’re beyond that. The future of our planet is at risk, and social inequality has never been more extreme. Change is not an option. For new generations, it’s a duty, an impossible mission we’re entrusting to them».

«French writer Virginie Despentes states it radically: “Not all generations have aspired to change the world; not all generations have been given the duty to change the world. My generation was never told, even before we could read, if you don’t change the world, you’re all going to die. They are gender-fluid and they are pansexual; they are racialized or supportive of the racialized; they no longer want to be confined and defined by poverty and injustice; they are shamans; they are witches. And what interests me is to be able to tell them ‘everything is possible,’ starting with the best, and it’s a matter of desiring something else» (Olivier Zahm).

/ Purple Magazine 40 The Revolutions Issue, F/W23

Purple Magazine’s Revolutions Issue is its most passionate ever, with stories infused with the love for change and alternative solutions and yet full of heartache as regression and inequalities rise.

/ 491 pages
/ hardcover
/ 3,1 kg
/ 24 x 33 cm

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