ABOUT
GUM (formally 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, Co-Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director
is a book designer, writer, and photographer. She studied graphic design and bookmaking at Bennington College, in Vermont. They reside in Brooklyn, NY and spends her days working in art book publishing, and running their indie publishing project GUM.
They love to hear your secrets and use their google calendar religiously.
In 2019 she began researching the internet’s data centers and infrastructure and her work still revolves around this today. Specifically, their work discusses the relationship between the digital world and the living one.
She asks how one can Become while entangled in the dovetail of analog and digital.
Veda Carmine-Ritchie, Co-Editor-in-Chief and 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.
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.