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Dysfluent is an independent magazine that explores the lived experience of stammering facilitating contrasting and challenging views.

issue 2

Unfolding the cover reveals a flurry of stammering typography stemming from the proud quote. Between the letterforms are reflections of doubt, shame and stigma adapted from interviews in the magazine. October 2023.

Issue 2: Stammering Pride
October 2023
ISSN 2977-0297
Supported by Arts Council England

Stammering pride has emerged as a compelling movement in the cause for self-affirmation, dignity and equality for people who stammer. But what does it mean to be proud of something you associate with struggle and pain? Dysfluent Issue 2 is a 110+ page compilation of interviews and visual artwork celebrating and challenging stammering pride.

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Editor

Conor Foran

Producer

Bart Rzeznik

Design

Take Courage

Contributors

Patrick Campbell
Penny Farrell
Jack Nicholas
Kristel Kubart
Ruban Pillai
Audra Wolowiec
Willemijn Bolks
Paul Aston
JJJJJerome Ellis
Making Waves
Puneet Singh Singhal
Maya Chupkov

Print

Munken Kristall Rough [cover]
Arena Smooth [inside]
Printed by Park Communications

Typefaces

Dysfluent Mono by Conor Foran
Ruder Plakat by Lineto
Stratos by Production Type

MEntors & support

Patrick Campbell
Daniel Caulfield-Sriklad
Kimberley Dines
Nathan Smith
Kristel Kubart
Penny Farrell
Voon Pang
Dr. Maria Stuart

A magazine on a dark blue surface. Its front cover is light seagreen with dark blue typography. — The cover of Dysfluent magazine issue 2 is designed with the colours inspired by the Making Waves’ stuttering pride flag: seagreen and ultramarine. October 2023.

Across 110 pages, the magazine celebrates and challenges stammering pride through interviews, articles and visual art.

The back cover of Dysfluent Issue 2. — ‘I want to embrace, not just accept, stammering’ questions what accepting stammering really means, and if it’s enough. October 2023.

A close up of light seagreen paper with dark blue typography printed on it. — The concertina folded front cover expresses a dichotomy of the stammering experience: pride and shame. October 2023.

A close up of Dysfluent Issue 2. — Pull-quotes in the magazine remain in their paragraphs, challenging the idea of the perfectly-said phrase. October 2023.

issue 1

Issue 1
October 2019
Supported by Irish Stammering Association & STAMMA

Around 1% of the world's population stammers. How does it impact their lives? Is stammering different from stuttering? And what about a cure? Dysfluent Issue 1 is a 60+ page compilation of interviews with people who describe the everyday joys and obstacles of living with a stammer.

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