‘Dance, drag, chaos’: This zine pays homage to queer friendship

Gracie Brackstone, Growing Pains and Thank You Notes15 Imagesview more +Last March, photographer, stylist and producer Gracie Brackstone made the difficult decision to relocate to London from Manchester. Never without her camera, Brackstone documented this transitional period on film. Marking one year since the move, the Dazed Club member has released Growing Pains and Thank You Notes, a 76-page zine featuring pictures and poems that delineate a year of love, loss and gratitude. From party to protest, euphoria to grief, Growing Pains and Thank You Notes captures the sheer breadth of emotions she’s felt along the way.Brackstone’s move to London was the product of necessity, a symptom of a problem that many young creatives face today. “I was jobless in Manchester for a long time. I couldn’t afford my rent anymore,” she tells Dazed. For a while, she crashed on friends’ sofas, desperate to make it work in the city she considered home. “I had lots of people tell me they were rooting for me...