What Is Girls Like Us Magazine and What Can You Find on Its Website?

Girls Like Us is an independent queer magazine and online platform that publishes themed issues built around writing, images, and objects, and frames its subject matter as “a queer life” that is “not singular and individual, but entangled and connected.” Its website (girlslikeusmagazine.com) is the magazine’s public home for browsing issues, reading selected articles, finding events, and visiting its shop. It is best understood as an editorial and cultural project rather than a general-interest magazine site: the content is organized around thematic issues, and the site’s navigation reflects that structure.

What the magazine is

The site describes its editorial stance directly in its issue introductions. The issue on biography, for example, opens with “Welcome to your queer life” and describes a life lived “through writing, images and objects” and as “a sticky, messy pile of narratives and emotions.” That language is a useful summary of the magazine’s identity: it treats queer experience as a subject explored through multiple media rather than through a single article format.

The issues shown on the site are numbered and each carries a single organizing theme. Visible examples include:

• Issue #12 – Biography, framed around life writing and personal narrative
• Issue #11 – Economy, which the site describes as covering economies that “trade our emotional labour, desires, love, fertility, time, minds, queerness, politics and clicks”
• Issue #10 – Future, which states a desire for “a future outside of straight time”

Each issue page presents an introduction and a “More” link, which is the entry point for the issue’s full contents.

What the website contains

The site’s navigation is compact and gives a clear picture of what is available:

Issues

The Issues section is the core of the site. Each issue is presented as a theme with a short editorial statement, and the “More” link leads to the material within that issue. If you want to understand the magazine’s range, reading two or three issue introductions is the fastest way to see how it moves between personal writing, cultural criticism, and political themes.

Events

The Events section lists real programming tied to issues. Examples visible on the site include a “Mothers & Daughters” event at Beursschouwburg in Brussels on 8, 15, and 22 December 2017, and the launch of Issue #10 in Brussels on 2 September 2017 at Buenos Tiempos, where a London-built CAMPerVAN caravan was used to host the launch. These listings are useful if you want to see how the magazine connects its printed issues to in-person events, though the dates shown are historical rather than a current calendar.

Heresies

Heresies is where longer written pieces appear. The site shows “Their Trans Tube” by Grace Dunham, set in New York, which opens by noting that YouTube is “not just a repository for animal videos.” This section is the place to look for standalone essays and columns rather than issue-themed material.

Shop

The Shop section is linked from the main navigation. The site also features a specific product, the “SECOND SKIN HARNESS” by Sara Manente, Inju Kaboom, and Günbike Erdemir, presented alongside the issue content. The site does not publish pricing or payment details in the material available, so check the Shop page directly for current products, prices, and purchasing conditions.

How to use the site

1. Start with Issues if you want the magazine’s editorial perspective. Open an issue introduction, read the framing text, then follow “More” to the contents.
2. Use Heresies if you want individual essays without committing to a full issue.
3. Check Events to see the kinds of programming the magazine has run; treat the listed dates as archive information unless a current listing says otherwise.
4. Visit Shop for products; confirm price, availability, and shipping on the page itself, since the site’s public text does not state them.

One practical note: the site displays a message that it may look or behave oddly on an old browser. If pages render strangely, try a current version of a major browser before assuming content is missing.

Who it is for

Girls Like Us suits readers interested in independent queer publishing, thematic editorial projects, and writing that mixes criticism, personal narrative, and cultural commentary. It is less useful as a news source or a general lifestyle magazine, since its structure is built around issues and essays rather than continuous coverage. If your interest is in how a small magazine organizes ideas across print, events, and objects, the issue introductions and the Heresies section together give the clearest picture of what the project does.