Water gives life, but how does water affect life? How does it hold you? It is common, precious, and transmutable. Water is beyond a tangible resource.

00-01 Water is the first issue in the Platypus Essentials series from award-winning publisher, Marilena Hewitt. There are two sides to this book: [Thirsty], a field guide seeking a queer utopia amongst the post-colonial, watery spaces of Mparntwe (Alice Springs), and [Swallow], a platform for wet critical discussion, art, and literature. It features contributions from Jordan Azcune, Nat Briggs, Lionel Fogarty, Loki Groves, Tay Haggarty, Dylin Hardcastle, Yaseera Moosa, Eva Philips, Sarah Poulgrain, Mandy Quandrio, Running Water Community Press, Anna Ren, and Kata Szasz.