Otherwise Magazine

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 otherwisemag.com/amoxtli

To know more about the author, check out the interview with Otherwise visual and sound editor José Sherwood González: otherwisemag.com/meet-the-autho…

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT!! 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" otherwisemag.com/the-treasure-o…

To know more about the authors, check out the interview with Otherwise visual and sound editor José Sherwood González otherwisemag.com/meet-the-autho…

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT Through the ways of ixtle and milpa, Na'o nchrii kuxranunthe, the five women of San Marcos Tlacoyalco, insist against inherited silences. otherwisemag.com/what-the-ngigu…

Meet the author: Guillermo López Varela otherwisemag.com/copy-of-meet-t…

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT! 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 otherwisemag.com/the-mirrors

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT 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 otherwisemag.com/in-tokatl-iwan…

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: eventbrite.ca/e/can-anthropo…

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT How the world actually works In this story, Dilshanie Perera learns about land and loss in Bangladesh’s delta region. otherwisemag.com/how-the-world-…

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT!! The light between strangers In this poem, Fiona Murphy explores the contours of a new vocabulary from the internet age. otherwisemag.com/the-light-betw…

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

To know more about the author, check out with Otherwise fiction and non-fiction editor Rosa Sansone: otherwisemag.com/meet-the-autho…

Meet the author: Sandra W Rodríguez Castañeda An interview with Otherwise visual and sound editor José Sherwood Gonzalez otherwisemag.com/meet-the-autho…

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT Do you remember that girl? In this story, Sandra W Rodríguez Castañeda searches Peru for a girl whose death she heard about years earlier otherwisemag.com/do-you-remembe…

Meet the author: Fulya Pınar an interview conducted by Otherwise poetry editor Grace H Zhou otherwisemag.com/meet-the-autho…

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT! the line starts here, but it moves In this story, Fulya Pınar follows the mundane routines of migrant life in Turkey. otherwisemag.com/the-line-start…

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 otherwisemag.com/contours

We are thrilled to share this immersive "ethno-graphic" by our post-doctoral researcher Laura Mafizzoli Learn more about Laura's work in this interview: otherwisemag.com/meet-the-autho… #MEMPOP #ERC #visualanthropology