bios centres on film, music, culture, biography, and memory.
It operates entirely on reader support.
If you would like to contribute contact:
therogeryoung@bios.net.za | +27 72 158 8396
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Editor | Roger Young
Deputy Editor | Lucia Gcincga
Managing Editor | Bianca Fernandes
Contributors | Thato Tsotetsi, Roger Young, Lucia Gcincga, Lloyd Newkirk, Hagen Engler, James Stoddart
Roger Young has written for Vice, City Press, Mail & Guardian, Rolling Stone (SA), and Bhekisisa, and was the managing editor of Mahala. His writing has been collected in the anthology The Interpreters.
His films include Keys Money Phone (2014) and Love Runs Out (2019). He was on the original writing team for eTV’s Scandal, which was not his finest moment. His finest moment was probably these t-shirts.
Complicity – Twelve Recollections Of Street Life
His new book – I Hardly Remember Their Names – is due 2027- excerpts here
Contributors
James Stoddart
James is a solemn goofball that spends too much time playing chess. He is currently obsessed with early 2000s emo/pop/punk and the novel Piranesi. One day, he hopes to write a Letterboxd review that goes viral on Reddit.
Claire Anderson
Claire runs Milestone Studios, a recording studio, and is pursuing an MA in English Literary Studies at UCT. Her poems have appeared in Ons Klyntji, Botsotso, Stanzas, and New Contrast. She lives in Cape Town.
Lloyd Martinez Newkirk
Lloyd Almighty is a writer, director, actor, photographer, business owner, copywriter, content creator and fledgling influencer. An ADHDmaxxer 3000, he loves Pakistan, film and music, but when it comes to DOEF, it’s house or nothing. Psytrance, techno and folk can suck it. Fuck you, Matthew Mole.
Also: Tate McRae is bae. ❤️
PS: Lloyd loves pussy, but every four years he has a gay leap year. Bottom.