IN/OUT 2025

Predictions from Amrita Hepi, Michael Farrell, Sophia Walsh, Meetka Otto, Michael Sun, Aubrey Wang, Anjelica Angwin, and your editors.

Dear readers,

Happy New Year! To prepare for the seasons ahead, your editors have curated a list of international Ins and Outs from friends across the time zones. Want to know where you should be drinking in Paris? Where to find the best massage in Bangkok? What not to be wearing in New York? We’ve got you. Disputes, challenges, and suggestions welcome.

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Amrita Hepi (dancer, choreographer and artist, Bangkok)

IN

Krung Thep Mahanakon; Stranger Bar; curated bike playlist; not standing for the king; Benchakitti park; sneaking into 5 star pools; dessert toast w/ dessert soup; gay marriage; Samsung flip phone; Khao San Road; Khao San Road outdoor massage (1.5 hours getting my body pummelled while ppl watching); dodgy chemists (24/7 ritalin); IV drip after the party; onsen lunches; the Green Lung; Pixie at Poutine bar; Don Mueang airport; PrEP; Thai horror comedy; video art; Molam music; wine from Adelaide in Mod Kaew; blood orange Schweppes; bogan Apichatpong.

OUT

Moo Deng industrial complex; moonshine poison; cash cards at food courts; dispensaries; standing for the king at the cinema; breakfast buffets; diplomatic art; pre-mix Manao soda; bargaining with the dolls on Soi Cowboy; Italian food.

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Sophia Walsh (writer and poet, Paris)

IN

Cold sores; marriage (still/again); procreating if you can and making a huge deal about it if you can’t; saunas; attention to craft; Julie Reshe’s “negative psychoanalysis”; getting drunk at La Chope Des Artistes (still/again); candles instead of lights; Kate Moss’ “faffy layers”; exercising grace (“Not to exercise all the power at one’s disposal is to endure the void. This is contrary to all the laws of nature. Grace alone can do it”—Weil).

OUT

Instagram; getting drunk in Belleville (Aux Folies you’re done); all readings in Naarm unless Lucy Van, Thabani Tshuma, or Justin Clemens are there to perform or are in the crowd or have given it their stamp of approval. I want all pieces of writing to be checked by either Van, Tshuma, or Clemens prior to being performed in front of an audience, and for them to be financially compensated for this work; any dish served with broth at Le Verre Volé; rationing bread, like they do at Le Verre Volé (one piece of bread per person per dish ordered); multiple daily 7-12 euro transactions.