Guest Editor’s Note: December 2021
Dearest Odd Readers,
This marks the final issue of the year and what a crazy, fun, complex and painful year it has been. We, at the Odd team,…Read more
Guest Editor’s Note: November 2021
reflecting on shame, madness and being queer
by mpho ndaba
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Editors’ Note – April 2021
by Shameelah Khan
Gremlins
A very Happy Easter to everyone celebrating.
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Editors’ Note: February 2021
By Shameelah Khan
There are endless rituals to be thankful for in our lives. Some we…Read more
Editor’s Note: January 2021
By Shameelah Khan
2020 is over.Breathes. Whispers. Laughs.Cries. How…Read more
Editor’s Note: December 2020
By Shameelah Khan
No matter where we found ourselves this year, it was a ghost…Read more
Editor’s Note: September 2020
By Shameelah Khan
Otherness
At Odd Magazine, we often prefer to have…Read more
Editor’s Note: June 2020
By Shameelah Khan
No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim,…Read more
Editor’s Note: April 2020
By Amir Bagheri
Japan: December 2016
It had been about six months since I…Read more
Editor’s Note: March 2020
By Shameelah Khan
Egypt
A group of young millennials, myself included, spent a week…Read more
Editor’s Note: December 2019
By Paula Akugizibwe
with commentary by Yewande Omotoso
A short distance from…Read more
Editor’s Note: November 2019
By Nicholas Bruce
At this time of day, the sea is painted the colour of…Read more
Editor’s Note: October 2019
By Amir Bagheri
(i)
The therapist then asked him, “are there any specific incidents, or rather…Read more
Editor’s Note: August 2019
An Ethical Procedure of Sexuality
By Shameelah Khan
Part A: The Questionnaire
Quantitative Research: is…Read more
Editor’s Note: July 2019
Editor’s Note: June 2019
By Amir Bagheri
Alike for those who for today prepare,
And those that after some tomorrow stare,
A Mu’adhin…Read more
Editor’s Note: May 2019
Editorial Notations on Decolonisation. To the Sounds of Ornette Coleman. In 15 Notes. An Experimentation
By …Read more
Editor’s Note: March 2019
By Shameelah Khan
“Loneliness and solitude are two different things. When you are…Read more
Editor’s Note: December 2018
December 2018
By Amir Bagheri
I remember growing up, not having a favourite colour. I saw colourful things…Read more
Editor’s Note: November 2018
November 2018
By Shameelah Khan
I was having a conversation with my co-director the other evening about when…Read more
Editor’s Note: October 2018
October 2018
By Sarah Leck
Couples spending time together under a cherry blossom tree…Read more
Editor’s Note: September 2018
September 2018
By Juwayriya Bemath
For a while now, I’ve been asking myself where I fit in. The sense of belonging has always felt…Read more
Editor’s Note: August 2018
August 2018
By Amir Bagheri
I have a brother who is seven years younger than me. The age gap between the two of us…Read more
Editor’s Note: July 2018
July 2018
Statement of Birth
By Shameelah Khan
(Transcribed from a short interview over coffee with my mother)
Name: Shameelah Khan (almost not though)
Age: one week (according…Read more
Editor’s Note: June 2018
June 2018
By Amir Bagheri
I was sitting right in front of her, at one of my favourite family restaurants in the heart of Johannesburg….Read more
Editor’s Note: May 2018
May 2018
By Shameelah Khan
In this Issue of Odd Magazine, the theme Nostalgia was selected. This editor’s note was not an easy one,…Read more
Editor’s Note: April 2018
April 2018
By Corey Joseph
At sixteen, my physics teacher wrote in my leavers book: “You grew on me like some sort of infectious…Read more
Odd Editor’s Note: March 2018
March 2018
By Amir Bagheri
(i)
A letter to my mom
Salaam Maamaan,
About a month ago, I was given the…Read more
Odd Editor’s Note: February 2018
February 2018
By Shameelah Khan
This issue is dedicated to the memory of Hugh Masekela and Professor Kgositsile. May their blessed souls rest in…Read more
Odd Editor’s Note: January 2018
January 2018
By Amir Bagheri
It was in the middle of autumn in 2014; I was sitting on the very back seat of a minibus, that…Read more
Odd Editor’s Note: December 2017
December 2017
By Amy Loureth Worster
Dear Odd Family,
If, like me, you grew up in a Christian household, it’s likely that you’re…Read more
Editor’s Note: November 2017
November 2017
Amir Bagheri
Some of the fondest memories that I posses today, are my childhood memories at my grandparent’s home in downtown…Read more
Editor’s Note: October 2017
October 2017
Shameelah Khan
How
Did the rose
Ever open its heart
And give to this world all of its beauty?
It felt the encouragement…Read more
Editors Note: September 2017
SEPTEMBER 2017
I was having another sleepless night. The gates to the hell, that is twitter, opened and sucked me right into it. Scrolling up and down, I…Read more