Semiotext(e) is pleased to announce Issue 1 of a new special project, Animal Shelter, a 148 page journal featuring new work by David Askevold, Bruce Benderson, Erik Bluhm, Gary Lee Boas, Claude Collins-Stracensky, Rachel Detroit, Jennifer Doyle, Tony Duvert, Hedi El Kholti, Matt Fishbeck, Mark Flores, Paul Gellman, Giovanni Jance, Dave Jones, William E. Jones, Iris Klein, Alice Könitz, Chris Kraus, Elke Krystufek, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Jonathan Meese, Erik Morse, Theresa Pendlebury, Ariel Pink, JC Rees, Ariana Reines, Rebekah Rutkoff, Abdellah Taïa, Masha Tupitsyn, Sarah Wang, Goody-B Wiseman, Bobbi Woods and others.

Fleeting, ephemeral, non-digital and non-hierarchical, Animal Shelter is part intellectual journal, part DIY 'zine. Eclectic but highly focused, the journal looks towards non-privatized forms of sexuality as a cultural conduit. Looking back to the underground press sex culture of the 1970s, Animal Shelter is dedicated to visions of real freedom for the present.

(in)hibition, haven, protection, caginess, neglect, agency, ill-fit, rescue …

Highland Park, September 9th, 2008
Hedi: We wanted to do a club night with Marti but it never happened.
Paul: The three of us couldn't agree on anything. I found this incredibly annoying.
H: But with the club, we were going to put out a fanzine.
P: What is Animal Shelter?
H: Well, we hope to gather texts and artworks from our friends, and people we admire, and make new ones along the way, in the spirit of the magazines we love from the past, like Suck, Minuit, Little Ceasar, Masques, Between C & D …
P: You're definitely more highbrow and literary. I tend towards the streetwise and the expressionistic.
H: I am not sure if I agree. But we both love sincerity.

Animal Shelter is edited by Hedi El Kholti and Paul Gellman.