Otherwise Magazine

A magazine of storytelling and ethnography #openaccess
Long reads | Short Stories | Poetry | Visual Essays | Sounds |
ISSN 2752-3659

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OUR NEW ISSUE IS OUT! Amoxtli is OUT!

In this issue, we encounter the Amoxtli Tezcatlipoca – the Book of the Smoking Mirror – a Mesoamerican sacred manuscript, through the stories and poems of its cultural inheritors

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Ancestral threads

In this new story, Bianca Xanat Strobeck Rionda speaks from the museum in Liverpool where the Amoxtli is housed, and where anger meets ritual, ancestors and fierce pride.

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To know more about the author, check out the interview with Otherwise visual and sound editor José Sherwood González: https://t.co/4mNRDbAo1U

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In this story, Yazmin Carrasco writes of a girlhood where language itself is punished, and returns memory to earth and body

"That day I was so frightened, I made myself learn the multiplication tables"

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To know more about the authors, check out the interview with Otherwise visual and sound editor José Sherwood González

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Through the ways of ixtle and milpa, Na'o nchrii kuxranunthe, the five women of San Marcos Tlacoyalco, insist against inherited silences.

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Meet the author:
Guillermo López Varela

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The Mirrors

"A house painted with my father’s footsteps"

Guillermo López Varela follows his reflection in a pot of mole into the everyday rituals of speaking with the dead

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In Tokatl iwan Amoxtli

Erika Rionda tells the story of Grandmother Spider, who weaves knowledge through heart and community, reminding us that what is protected must never be locked away

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Our own Emily Kennedy at The Centre for Anthropology and Journalism invites anthropologists on February 25 to a collaborative brainstorming session: How anthropology can help journalists compensate sources ethically.

Register here: https://t.co/IsT1uIzNMf

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How the world actually works

In this story, Dilshanie Perera learns about land and loss in Bangladesh’s delta region.

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The light between strangers

In this poem, Fiona Murphy explores the contours of a new vocabulary from the internet age.

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ISSUE III TRICKSTER
Thirdshelf is accepting submissions for Issue Three until January 14th. Call for submissions on our website!

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To know more about the author, check out with Otherwise fiction and non-fiction editor Rosa Sansone:

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The light between strangers

In this poem, Fiona Murphy explores the contours of a new vocabulary from the internet age.

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Meet the author: Sandra W Rodríguez Castañeda

An interview with Otherwise visual and sound editor José Sherwood Gonzalez

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Do you remember that girl?

In this story, Sandra W Rodríguez Castañeda searches Peru for a girl whose death she heard about years earlier

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Meet the author: Fulya Pınar

an interview conducted by Otherwise poetry editor Grace H Zhou

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the line starts here, but it moves

In this story, Fulya Pınar follows the mundane routines of migrant life in Turkey.

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CONTOURS IS OUT!

Contours trace lines of connection and imagination, where boundaries push up against open space.

Contours was edited by @gracehzhou

Illustrations by Fulya Pınar

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