title: Toxic

artist: Taylor Le Melle

published by: britney

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britney is a journal of new art and writing edited by Carle Gent and Kate Paul. Open to invited writers, artists, poets, clinicians and mystics, the sole curatorial stipulation being that the work is named after a song by Britney Spears.

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The first issue is Toxic, by Amsterdam-based writer Taylor Le Melle. A science fiction that deals in architectures, bodily inheritances, bio hacking, academia, and double consciousness, issue 1 was risograph printed at the Bodleain Libraries, in Oxford and Rumpus Room in Glasgow.

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Issue 1 has been launched at Pulsie, Amsterdam; Zig Zag Reading Room, Brussels; and May Day Rooms, London.

 

Issue 2: I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman by Hannah Proctor will be published later this year.

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Issue 1: Toxic by Taylor Le Melle


June 2026
ISSN 2979-8272
28 pages
colour with colour cover (most of the pages are black ink on lilac paper but there is yellow risograph on 3 of the pages)
booklet format
© Taylor Le Melle 2026


Published by britney, Glasgow, Scotland 
Edited by Carle Gent and Kate Paul
Price: £12 RRP

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