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
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
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
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
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.
By Hazel Mead
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.
By Chloe McLaren
2011: Thin, wispy and cold. Used by many, appreciated by none. Continue reading
Melanie May has been a beloved part of the KnockBack family since the beginning. She’s like a rarely seen aunt from Canada, or the lady who works in the launderette. Continue reading
By Marie Berry
Is it contentious to say that men fucked the world up? Is it sexist? What if I said it was overweight middle aged white men in suits from the west, who have systematically fucked the planet from the cosmos down? Is that sizest, sexist, racist, heterophobic? I mean, some of my friends and family are middle aged straight white men, but I think they’d mostly agree….