The Unsafe Journal is the publishing arm of The Unsafe House, a multidisciplinary collective based in Amsterdam. It is an online literary and visual arts publication conceived as an extension of the collective’s artistic program and as a magazine for writing and visual art that should not exist in polite company.
Founded in 2026 by software engineer and poet Hichem Touati, former comedian Sina Khani, enabler Ruth Spetter, and spiritual leader Tarik Sadouma, the journal was established to provide a dedicated venue for artistic and intellectual work that resists cultural consensus.
The publication presents fiction, essays, visual art, poetry, provocations and mythologies. Its only editorial requirement is risk, whether aesthetic, intellectual, or both. It has no interest in consensus, comfort, or the careful management of acceptable opinion. Instead, it defines its orientation through a commitment to aesthetic and conceptual boldness, foregrounding friction, contradiction, and interpretive openness.
The Unsafe Journal functions simultaneously as archive and living site of discourse. If The Unsafe House is the space, the journal is the voice, positioning artistic autonomy, disagreement, and discomfort not as obstacles to culture but as necessary conditions for its development.
These are the contributors to The Unsafe Journal to date in alphabetic order.
A
Anonymous HGB students – Open letter to the Leipzig Art Academy (HGB)
“Anonymous letter from 70 HGB students stops The Unsafe House event over alleged neo reactionary and authoritarian ties.”
B
Brasßel, Ferdinand P.D.T.C. – Engineered Apotheosis
“AI can be coherent without meaning. Discover how AIdabaoth exposes our obsession with patterns over judgment.”
C
Chouliara, Chrysa / Kaascat – 1989
Fish food suicide anecdote
D
Davidzon, Vladislav – The Unsafe House Expelled from Basel
No! Madame! Such fecundity is forbidden here!
DROELOE aka Vincent Rooijers – The Map is not the Territory
Explores language, meaning, and belief as tools shaping lived reality.
E
Erick Overveen – Theo van Gogh
In a self‑respecting dictatorship, the writer is the most dangerous man alive
Existential and philosophical exploration under duress.
Eric Schönstein – Terror Barrier
1,000 swords fall. A fakie kickflip. An almost-story. Shame, coffee, knives meeting in my skull.
G
Gabriël Kousbroek – Kringspiratie
A group of people having an orgy at the bar.
H
Hans Kuiper – The Fucking Illusion of Your Fucking Vision
“That house in Portugal isn’t a dream. It’s a fucking burden…”
Harry Merry – Introspective Retrospection
An exclusive sneak-peek of this living legend’s upcoming anthem lyrics.
Hichem Touati – THE UNSAFE JOURNAL
Manifesto on the ethos of the journal.
I
Ilona Kop – Cause of Death: Economic Growth
“My body starts to burn and tingle. My lungs filled with acid and asbestos…”
K
Nilu Kalipso – You kissed Tina and I cringed
“I kissed her back with the hesitation of a broken record, skipping on the same sweet lie. Just one more hit!”
Kerpestein, Andries – The Proprietarian Manifesto: I. The Slow Death of Our Civilisation
A manifesto for saving the world.
Sina Khani – “Love of the Game”: A film you probably haven’t seen and definitely shouldn’t
Sandra Soliman grabs Jini Jane’s physical decay by the balls and flashes her Egyptian tits. Yippie. Great cinema.
In blinding panic, trying to seal the spillways of the data leak.
I guide his hands towards my breasts, my ass, allow his dick to only knock gently on the entrance of my cunt. Easy, easy, I whisper.
M
Mohsen Namjoo – Your golden hair, Fatemeh! Your greying hair, Masoud!
“The regime publishes the ID numbers of the dead. Mohsen Namjoo sets names to chords…”
N
Nilu Kalipso – You Kissed Tina & I Cringed
“I kissed her back with the hesitation of a broken record, skipping on the same sweet lie.”
O
Oliver Uschmann & Syvia Witt – The Shaft
Philosophical fiction about being trapped and confronting existence.
P
Padberg, Eduard – Scorching Coal on Judgement Day
“My confusion must be showing, because she repeats the phrase again, slowly…”
Robert Pennekamp – Once you know, you can’t get back
How are truth, belief and systems built and maintained?
Porosusghosts – Disappointing landscapes
The damned poetry of the city. Nasty glances. Ugly stories.
Siena Powers – Gravity or Points of Attraction
“I wanted to be feminine, not an old man with a pillow strapped around me for a belly.”
R
Paul Rhoads – BECOMING A PAINTER
Explores artistic prestige and the painting “safe way.”
Ray Jackson – I hate the Display
Depressed, suicidal, poetic.
S
Septentriones – LSD beneath the tongue’s alarm
Poetic exploration of identity, pain, and perception.
s‡ëf/\n sch/\efer aka globero‡‡er – From Invitation to Obliteration
While being is unpleasant to many, Grindcore is pure love.
Stanley Robben
Everyday streets become raw, electric, impossible to ignore moments.
T
Tunç Topçuoğlu – FART SCHOOL
“The Rietveld Academy killed this book for being too free.”
Michelangelo and grandson
W
Wayne Horse / Willehad Eilers
The disposition of the modern individual towards grotesque and masturbatory obsessions.