Tummy Ache is a new magazine that explores the dangers of building up a ‘perfect’ version of the self to present to the world, and hiding from the imperfection and uncertainties of life. This, the magazine says, is in turn dissolving our capacity to feel gratitude, creativity and empathy. 

The second issue of Tummy Ache ('The Jealousy Issue') is an exploration of one of the most shameful emotions. Through the work of artists and writers (such as Elif Shafak and Juno Calypso), Tummy Ache excavates the reasons for our cultural feelings towards jealousy – 'Insidious, secretive, and poisonous if held onto for too long. Tummy Ache believe in the power of divulgence - exposing your own jealousies, and indulging in the jealousies of others, in order to loosen the belief that this is an individual suffering.'