Season 4

The Ick Print Edition Is Here!

A real, disgusting magazine

Dec 4 • Emily

How I Got Canceled by the Left and Right

What cancel culture reveals and conceals about redemption

Sep 6 • Lydia Laurenson

Will AI Feel Disgust?

On the origins and future of the ick

Aug 20 • Rhys Lindmark

How the Left Gagged on Sex Work

And dismantled a revolution

Aug 13 • Kit

You Don’t Have IBS, You Have An Eating Disorder

But why not both?

Aug 6 • Emily

How to Lower Your Standards

On escaping Prince Charming Syndrome

Jul 30

The Idiot’s Guide to Mystical Interactive Theater

A fortune teller's attempt at dramaturgy

Jul 24 • Joe Holmes

"Don’t Look At Me!"

My first experiences with gender envy + the sanctity of the Jewish Deli

Jul 16 • Nina Katz

The 'Moist' Mind Virus: Why We Hate Wet Sounds

On misophonia and socially transmitted disgust

Jul 9 • Jake Eaton

The Politics of Contagion

Dispatches from the immune system of a failed utopia

Jul 2 • deepfates

Is The Ick Real?

An investigation of female primatological filters

Jun 18 • Eti

Men Want to Be Sons, Not Parents

Your assumptions about motherhood give me the ick

Jun 11 • Eurydice

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