Thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout editing Honi this year. You mean more to me than you know. 

I refuse to believe that there is not a better self for each of us, and a better world for all of us, out there. The potential that we hold is limitless, and the stories in this edition address that potential for more.

So much of life is theatrical, performative, and silly; both optimistically and nihilistically, especially politics.

Though it is wise to keep an open-mind, there are times we should live in the warmth around us.

We’re not here to make friends or win votes, we’re here to return to our radical leftist roots.

Our futures are radical, and they are dreamed into existence by us.

With this edition we hope to explore identity and language, and how our identities and experiences as queer people intersect with the language used to describe, attack, and affirm us.

Being settlers in a colony like Australia means we find ourselves engulfed within the colonised narrative of Indigenous bodies, land rights and sovereignty.

Honi wants a Voice that implements the wishes of First Nations people, that gives true control over their lands and waters. We should not settle for less. 

In real terms, a constitutionally-enshrined Voice has the potential to enable greater exercise of sovereignty.