Slugs returns in an expanded, limited deluxe edition, with a new cover, ISBN and 24 extra text pages drawn from dynamic sluggy conversations (with Zarina Muhammad of The White Pube, Lola Olufemi and Christie Costello of Bare Minimum Collective and the mysoclogist, Nathan Smith).

Why be a slug? Slugs: A Manifesto explores a creature that survives by being disgusting. Weaving together manifesto, memoir and poetic language, Abi Palmer considers the politics of space, iridescent queerness, and shapeshifting viscous ‘slug time.’ In the face of a potential apocalypse, Slugs: A Manifesto envisions a future where humanity becomes just a little more sluglike.

All hail Abi Palmer’s Slugs: A Manifesto, at once an addictive art world gossip column, a crip phenomenology, and a glistening, utopian theory of gender, queerness and desire. From these sticky trails the slug emerges as a slippery figure of dissent and persistence, whose very provocation of disgust ensures its survival. Palmer’s ode to the slug — sexy, mucosal and complicated — is essential reading for anyone interested in the headfucky negotiations of being a body. — Daisy Lafarge

Abi Palmer is an artist and writer. She uses film, text, sculpture and sensory intervention to explore sick bodies, viscous textures & ecological landscapes. Works include film series Abi Palmer Invents the Weather (Artangel, 2023); book Sanatorium (Penned in the Margins, 2020); and interactive gambling arcade Crip Casino. Her work has been shown at Tate Modern, Somerset House, Frieze Corridor and Venice Biennale

Makina Books, 2025, 290pages.