ABOUT
GUM (formerly SplashLand Magazine) is a queer owned and operated indie publishing project.
Built upon the foundation of books and their physicality, we produce a bi-annual print magazine, individual print projects accepted on a case-by-case basis, and an online journal with constantly rotating drops.
Established in March 2023 and relaunched as GUM in the fall of 2025 we aim to publish stuff you can really chew on and it doesn’t lose flavor.
GUM’s Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel Commitment
GUM, a jewish and queer run organization, stands in total and complete solidarity with the people of Palestine in their struggle against the Israeli occupation and genocide. We commit to adhering to the guidelines of the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). GUM will refuse support from institutions and organizations that are funded by the state of Israel and reject projects that normalize the occupation of Palestine and dispossession of Palestinians.
You can read more about PACBI here.
Free Palestine.
THE TEAM
Sydnie Hyams, Editor-in-Chief
Sydnie Hyams is an artist living in Brooklyn, NY. Their visual and written work come together in a genreless, and often technologically advanced, "other world" questioning the form, function, and production of a piece within the text as well as the context that surrounds it. She asks, "How can you become while entangled in The Deal?"
They love to hear your secrets and use their google calendar religiously.
Her debut book is forthcoming in 2027 with Crop Circle Press.
Veda Carmine-Ritchie, Literary Editor
is in love with love and the people in their life. They can be found writing, chatting, dancing, and drawing portraits of Garfield on the walls of dive bars.
Veda graduated from Bennington College in 2023 with a BA in dance, poetry, and psychology. They draw inspiration for their work from morse-code, grief, vulnerability, the ouroboros, power through submission, and the line between the tangible/conceptual. You can find their writing on their personal Substack, as well as in other small press zines.
Find them on Instagram and Substack as @callyoutomorrow.
COLUMNISTS:
Garrett Crusan, writing Content Hangover
is a writer, songwriter, and sound designer based in Brooklyn with a BA in music and literature from Bennington College. Their work is centered around motorik repetition, improvisation, making sense out of nonsense, and deconstructing words and sounds in an effort to reconstruct the self. They love sharing smokes with strangers and collecting phrases from newspapers and overheard conversations in their little brown notebook. You can listen to some of their work here.
Content Hangover is a monthly column that digs into music and performance to find their intersections with literature through essays, community immersion, and interviews with lyricists. Even more so, Content Hangover explores the idea of abstracting the practice of traditional music journalism.
Olive Jones, writing Fountain of Filth
is a musician from New Jersey currently living in Brooklyn.
Fountain of Filth is a monthly column about the neoliberal, AI-generated, private equity controlled, attention economy that we all wade through together. As techno-feudalism turns every aspect of our lives into a market transaction, each installment of Fountain of Filth searches for the humanity that hides inside of every data point.
FOUNDERS:
Sydnie Hyams, Rylee Hickman, Sarah Knight, Clara Drimmer, and Veda Carmine-Ritchie founded the formally named, SplashLand Magazine (now GUM), in the spring of 2023.