Presale / Awhām Magazine Issue #7 - The Mesh Issue

(The cover to be revealed soon)

The Mesh Issue, awhām magazine’s upcoming 7th edition, explores the theme of weaving through multiple dimensions.

"A world of life is woven from knots, not built from blocks as commonly thought. When everything tangles with everything else, the result is what I call a meshwork.”

From adorning pieces of fabric in symbols of belonging to locking arms in demonstrations, weaving is a powerful metaphor for solidarity, connection, and acts of care. It embodies our resilience, resistance, and the transmission of generational knowledge. It speaks to the preservation of memory, a lineage carried into the digital age, where early computer memory was literally handwoven by women, binding circuits together like threads on a loom.

Braiding together, we follow each other’s gentle pull, threads intertwining and strengthening in unity. Strung together, we become one—looping, linking, and moving collectively.

Like countless fabrics stitched into a single blanket, each thread adds depth and subtlety to the whole. Wrapping around each other, every fiber, strand, and rope joined together, fortifying the mesh. It is in the interlacing of perspectives, the intertwining of struggles and hopes, that something unbreakable emerges. Solidarity is not just togetherness—it is the strength found in connection.

Across cultures, weaving—whether in fabric or the braids of our hair—is an assertion of existence, holding history, memory, and identity. Patterns are more than design—they are language, tradition, and resistance.

Warping and wefting, our hearts become a tapestry of dreams.

awhām #7: The Mesh Issue explores solidarity, resistance, resilience, storytelling, memory preservation, acts of care, healing, restoration, patching, and cyberfeminism through the metaphor of weaving. We seek work that threads together histories and futures, intertwining personal and collective narratives.