Our third issue explores the opacity of the tropical as a pedagogical opportunity for re-imagining modes of being.

It features a collaborative re-writing in Spanish of Édouard Glissant’s essay, “Pour l’opacité,” by over 90 writers living in Peru, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay, Egypt, and the United States, and works by Angélica Freitas (trans. Hilary Kaplan), Debora Delmar Corp., Hick Duarte, Jonathas de Andrade, Leonardo Finotti, Marwa Arsanios (trans. Fred Spada), Maurício Ianês, Mauricio Marcín, Maru Calva, Rafael Uriegas, Ricardo Domeneck and WAI Think Tank.

We co-published our second issue with Meli-Melo Press of Brazil. It highlights an aesthetics based on embodied vernaculars of signage and play and takes its name, “Beauty Is Our Spiritual Guernica,” from a line by Mario Santiago Paspasquiaro.

Works by Oraib Toukan, Ramiro Chaves, Charity Coleman (trans. Silvio Sánchez Mújica), Mario Santiago Papasquiaro (trans. Cole Heinowitz), Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, Felipe Meres, Jake Davidson, and Ismar Tirelli Neto.

Our first issue, made between Palestine and the UK, explores islands as indeterminate spaces of possibility and border.

Contributors include Bruna Canepa, Ciro Miguel, Peter Brock, Ana Guadalupe (trans. Jeremy Spencer), Yaxkin Melchy, Fernanda Laguna (trans. Stuart Krimko), Juan Alberto Crasci, Sebastián Realini, Ileana Garma, Bruno H. Piché (trans. Anthony Seidman), Jason Mena, Mirene Arsanios (trans. Yaxkin Melchy), and Sara Uribe (trans. Toshiya Kamei).