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Menopause (2025)

Lip Service # 1

This issue was interested in personal experiences with menopause be it premature or delayed or perfectly timely. Contributors were invited to tell us about treatments, symptoms and about the discourse around them; we wanted to hear about the joys and the horrors of menopause – from peri to post and whatever it looks like for YOU.

  • Zoe Williams
    Lily Clayton
    Barbara Patino
    Marie Morice
    Jess Moriarty
    Vanessa Marr
    Polly Barker

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Lip Service # 2

Menstruation (2025)

This issue was interested in the topic of menstruation. For this issue, there was no limit to how or what form such engagement should take. We were interested in personal experiences with menstruation, whatever that might look like for someone. Whether you conceive of menstruation as something sacred or mundane, painful or joyful, fraught or simple – we wanted to hear about it. How does menstruation appear in fiction? What does paleoanthropology have to say about it? How does it relate to notions of femininity, of taboo and stigma? We wanted to hear it all

  • Zoe Williams
    Rachel Judge
    Samantha Streibl
    Theeba Krishnamoorthy
    Jo Dodd
    Minna Ford
    Anja Summermatter
    Polly Barker

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Lip Service # 3

Reproductive Justice (2025)

This issue was interested in Reproductive justice. Reproductive justice is a broad term. For us, it encompasses three core tenets: the right to have children, the right not to have children, and the right to raise children in safety. From access to abortion to the ability to see ones children, into adulthood – safe from state violence and neglect. We were interested in everything from personal experiences to academic reflections and professional insights.

Whether you’ve experienced reproductive injustice first hand or campaign for changes in the law – we wanted to hear about it. How is reproductive justice reproduced, or indeed undermined, in fiction? What does sociology have to say about it? How does it intersect with decoloniality or disability justice? We were interested in it all.

  • Kandre Hassan
    Safia Shaikh
    Soraya Saber
    Tireni Adeniji
    Skaped
    Katja Holtz
    Zoe Williams
    Marie Morice
    Helen Lynn
    Emily Jones
    Ki Hng
    Polly Barker

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Lip Service # 4

Disability and Sex (2026)

This issue was interested in the topic of Disability & Sex, and it's our biggest issue yet. It features contributions from our community including essays on kink and vaginismus, autistic sex, and compulsory asexuality; poetry and prose; mixed media submissions and illustrations; and a letter from the editors.
It also includes access to an audio recording of the issues.

  • PERKY
    Benji Rose
    Ike the Tike
    Madeline Scrace
    Dr Moseley
    Professor Gamble-Turner
    Amy Gaeta 
    Lloyd Meadhbh Houston 
    Bianca Ghiletchi 
    May Prothero 
    Nura Alyah 
    Juno Quintana
    Yasmine Bolden
    George Violet Parker 
    Grace Marsh 
    JD Woof 
    Polly Barker
    Alex Lyons
    Katja Holtz 

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Lip Service # 5

Sex Work & Decriminalisation (2026)

This quarter's issue is on Sex Work & Decriminalisation. It features contributions from sex workers and allies, including essays on domination and motherhood, sex work, care work, and disability, and corporate criminalisation; short stories and poetry; and a whole host of incredible mixed media submission.

  • Madeline Hernandez 
    Jonny the Revelator 
    Fabienne Jacquet 
    Zoe Williams 
    Lynsey Walton 
    Sally Anderson 
    Emme Witt-Eden
    Will Dawkin 
    Margaret Middleton 
    Victoria 'Vic' Chan
    North East Sex Worker Collective Raksha Muthukuma
    The Prophet Obblonge
    Tracy Johnson 
    Alex Lyons
    Katja Holtz 
    May Prothero 
    Grace Dean

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Lip Service # 6

The Pregnant Body (2026)

This quarter's issue is on The Pregnant Body. It features written as well as visual contributions on midwifery, trans pregnancy, birth in prison, body neutrality, short stories and poems about all the horrors, wonders, and ambivalences of pregnancy. It also includes access to an audio recording of the issue.

  • Sophia Platts-Palmer
    Angharad Hengyu Owen
    Hollie McNish 
    Yoshe Watson
    Farah Widmer
    Clare Dorber 
    Noami Delap
    Sian Brett 
    Imogen Butler-Cole
    Grace Gelder 
    Cavyn Mitchell
    Rebecca Morgante
    Irene Carter 
    Masha Trubitsina 
    Karina Elizondo
    Alafia Nicole Sessions 
    Y. W. Wamuyu
    Reverend Fiona Souter 
    Cat Brogan 
    Alex Lyons
    Katja Holtz 
    May Prothero 
    Grace Dean

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