JANUS 6

featuring:Zenon photographed by Georgia Dimitrokalli

Janus femzine #6 explores Nature & Eros. It opens with the tale of a woman erotically summoned by the forest. In this issue, the erotic is fungal, root-born, something that grows in the dark and insists on being felt.

A fragile poem by Zenon, a twenty-two-year-old poet. Images that emerge where flora merges with the female sexual body. Augusta Atla, a Scandinavian feminist artist offers works that hum with northern magic. Last but not least, anthropomorphic phallus drawings by Andreas Vais.

Janus #6 launched at the headquarters of Hard Clo on Archelaou Street, in a night of ritual and party.  Zenon performed a piece that felt like a spell cracking open, while Baba au Rum mixed Janus-themed cocktails that tasted deliciously botanical. To mark the occasion, Hard and SEBR.gr released a limited-edition Janus scarf—adorned with Irini’s dancing nymph.

The name Janus carries its own double history. In the 1970s, two separate magazines bore the name: one in Madison, Wisconsin, blending poetry with feminist science fiction; another in London delving unapologetically into erotic and s&m territory. Inspired by both, Irini Karayannopoulou created her own Janus: a self-published, 150-copy edition that actively plays with, questions, and subverts the clichés tied to femininity, sexuality, and their many mirrored roles.