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Quarterly · Podcast Series · Limited Zine No. 12

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Three things.
Each worth the price alone.

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Quarterly Issue

The Body Issue

128 pages. Uncoated paper. Essays on flesh, medicine, pleasure, and what it means to live in a body that the world keeps making decisions about.

128 pages·Uncoated stock·8 essays
Podcast Series
5 episodes · 4h 20m

On the Record

Season 3. Conversations with writers who changed the conversation — and the writers who changed them.

EP 01

The Audacity of the Byline

Roxane Gay

EP 02

On Writing While Angry

Hanif Abdurraqib

EP 03

What the Archive Knows

Saidiya Hartman

EP 04

Cover Lines & Power

Tina Brown

EP 05

The Essay as Argument

Leslie Jamison

Transcripts printed on 60gsm newsprint included in box

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Limited Zine

No. 12 — Softness

48 pages. Risograph printed. Poems, photographs, and one essay about crying in public that every woman in the office read twice.

Only 800 printed.

214 remaining as of Feb 24

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Spring 2026 · Editor's Letter

Why this season
matters right now.

We don't publish on a schedule. We publish when there's something worth saying. Here's what we can't stop thinking about.

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“We make the media we needed at 28 and couldn't find.”

— Amara Osei, Editor-in-Chief

Reading

The return of the long essay

Everyone said attention spans were dead. Then three 10,000-word pieces went viral in a month. We're not surprised.

Listening

Podcasts that trust you

No intros, no recaps, no 'if you enjoyed this.' Just two people who've done the reading, talking.

Watching

Women directing their own stories

Not the biopic. Not the prestige drama. The weird, specific, small thing that somehow feels universal.

Arguing

Is 'women's media' still a useful category?

We think yes. Here's why we still build the category while questioning it.

The team this issue
Amara Osei, Editor-in-Chief at Byline

Amara Osei

Editor-in-Chief

Priya Nair, Creative Director at Byline

Priya Nair

Creative Director

Sasha Williams, Senior Editor at Byline

Sasha Williams

Senior Editor

Kezia Mensah, Art Director at Byline

Kezia Mensah

Art Director

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