Our esteemed editor Marie* Berry wrote a book. If you like KnockBack and you like books, you should totally buy it.
*Marie aka Lauren aka confusing number of names Berry
Chanel No Way
By Frank Grimshaw
I trained in Paris under the great postmodern perfumier, Arnaud Destruels. I graduated and found work at an upmarket chop shop, but I soon tired of those dry, subservient boutiques. So I went out into the world where the sweat runs raw. And all through the ripening kaleidoscope of east Africa and the jungles of Timor, my nose came too. Continue reading
Eating at parties
By Anna Booty
You know the ones. A couple of hours after work and a couple before home time and you can go to a gallery to get free booze under the pretence of being cultured.
I have to go to a lot of these for work. I can just about manage to keep professional around a free bar but I have deep problems surrounding the vol-au-vonts.
“How?” I hear you ask “They are so delicious!”
“Exactly” I say. Continue reading
Mascaray
A triptych of love and loss in North London
By Steph Powell
INTERNET DATE
I went on an Internet date with a guy called D
I won’t tell you what his name is because he doesn’t know
I’m writing this.
Bound To Worry
By Hazel Mead
Same Shit, Different Day
By Aysha Bryant, introduced by LMK Berry
We started KnockBack ‘zine in 2006 because we were awesome young women and felt under-represented and underwhelmed by the magazines they were making for us. We knew women were (mostly) interested in life beyond shoes.
Game of Thrones
By Chloe McLaren
2011: Thin, wispy and cold. Used by many, appreciated by none. Continue reading
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First World Problems
I can’t afford a cleaner or a gardener but I’m too busy to do cleaning or gardening.
My career is based on a fictional social construct and has provided me a set of non-transferable ‘skills’ which would render me completely pointless in the event of an apocalyptic return to the old days.
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