Tummy Ache #4

Vol.4 The Lonely Issue

Treated as a private shame, loneliness is an emotion steeped in ideas of failure, invisibility and unlovability - yet it affects almost a quarter of the UK. Featuring work from artists and writers such as Celia Paul, Haseeb Iqbal, Samra Mayanja and Vida Adamczewski, The Lonely Issue traces the breadth of the emotion - from creative possibility and heightened sensitivity, to the rise of AI companionship, the fetishisation of boundaries, sexual dissociation, and the raw isolation of grief.

Vol. 4 is Tummy Ache’s largest issue yet, and acts as a testament to a collective cry for community in an age shaped by individualism, gig work, and dissolution of locality by online spaces. It is both an examination and an offering - a testament to the human need for connection.