Published quarterly, each issue of Tummy Ache Magazine focuses on a theme that encourages emotional introspection on a personal level, and also inspires conversations about the culture of emotional stagnation we live in, and how we can push against this through art.
An exploration of one of the most shameful emotions. Through the work of some amazing artists and writers (such as Elif Shafak and Juno Calypso), Tummy Ache excavates the reasons for our cultural feelings towards jealousy.
Insidious, secretive, and poisonous if held onto for too long. Tummy Ache believe in the power of divulgence - exposing your own jealousies, and indulging in the jealousies of others, in order to loosen the belief that this is an individual suffering.
For Tummy Ache’s first issue, we celebrate the power of vulnerability, its capacity to enable true, deep connections to form, to bridge the rupture between who we are and who we want to be, and to break down toxic structures.
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, is in turn dissolving our capacity to feel gratitude, creativity and empathy.
