Envisioning the Future

i am a temple forged from sun
an army of iron shimmers from its
golden rays off a white cross
lodged into the beating heart of an empire

displacement.

Jessica Kahn is a musician and educator of Jewish, Scottish, and Andean descent, and contributor to the Alternative Worlds Andean collection.

On "Different Folks" and Andean musical fusion

Here follows an interview with Alejandro Fernandez, an Aymara descendant and creator of improvised and progressive psychedelic folk music.

Heritage, music, and creative freedom

Rima(y) Raíz is a community collective created by and for the Andean/Andinx diaspora community of the United States.

Choclo y Chicha: a zine for (and from) the Andean Diaspora

Calling all Andean and Asian American folks! AltSalt is creating two multidisciplinary collections of work — and we want you to be a part of it.

Alternative Worlds: The Andes and Asian America

Mundos Alternatives: Los Andes y América Asiatica

This is the first in a series of posts to highlight members of the AltSalt community. First up we have Shirley Man-Kin Leung, organizer behind the Asian American collection for Alternative Worlds.

"To Dream and Be Intentional" — Interview with Shirley Man-Kin Leung

The Birth of Andean Futurism

Alternative Worlds Workshop Weekend Schedule

(Interview)

This is because life itself is dynamic, a spiral — and you can see this play out even in history. Everything is always changing yet circling back on itself, evolving with similarities but transformed.

Andean Sacred Geometry

Offering resonance is an intentional practice used to cultivate deep listening and connection; we've adapted it for AltSalt.

What is Resonance?

Every year since my friend Bill committed suicide, his mother and I had exchanged Christmas cards. And I am one of those people who do holiday letters...

The Coming Out Ring

A short story about legacy, revolution, and obliquely, terraforming Mars. Also contains a dumpling recipe.

Within the Fold

In his first letter to Art, Charles writes on human nature, technology, and the 90s Disney film "Honey I Blew Up the Baby"

First Letter to Art - Human Nature, Technology, and Blown Up Babies

Called forth from the dreamers, healers, witches, womxn of our bloodline, we are the beginning of a new story,..

Becoming Our Own Prayer

Everyone

United States

Peru

Zine

Slice of Life

Andinx

Indigenous

Quechua

Latinx

First Generation

English

A few minutes

Red, green, and yellow art with choclo and geometric iconography.

Cover of the author walking down a city sidewalk

A cover image with the text "Making AI Art Responsibly: A Field Guide", & a cute character at the summit of a mountain alongside a flag.

The background is the Colombian Flag with the Words "Colo-Mitolo-Gital" spanning each stripe. In the foreground is a floating back and a pair of red heels. In the top right, there is two buttons

Screenshot of webzine: two side-by-side portrait-orientation images of cityscapes, overlapped by a rectangle containing a recreated text message conversation, all against a white background.

Blue text on white background: "These are the things they took from us, They left us bare These are the things they couldn’t"

A group of people surrounding a frustrated girl trying to draw, they all seem to be looking at what she's doing.

The cover uses a retrofuturistic artist's rendering of a space colony from NASA's Ames Research Center.

A shovel and axe in the shape of an X, along with the publications title, the author's name Alda Yuan, and info including the publication year of 2021 and version 1.0

Cover of a book with the title in Spanish, "El Código de Wira Cocha: Simbolismo Milenario Andino" and ancient stone structures in the background

The title "Cultural Correspondence" along with the illustration of a hands holding uprooted plants and dirt

An abstract image of bubbles and dots and rays of sunshine in a blue and pink color palette

Title page "Andean Sky" with subtitle "The story of an immigrant his search for home"

Title page of Riveted in the Word, showing title and author name Warren Lehrer against a clouded sky

Title 'Dear Charles' over a man holding his heart in a meditative stance

Portrait of a child with night sky and plants in the background

Twine

Webzine

Multimedia Storytelling

Website

Game

Digital Comic

Interactive Fiction

New Media Literature

Tabletop Roleplaying Game

Book

Choose Your Own Adventure

Poetry

A Modern Ghost

Choclo y Chicha Vol. 1

SoftwareApplication

Reflections at Sunset

See Sandy

Surviving and Diving

The Life is a Freestyle Quaranzine

Quechualish: An Indigenous Language Zine

Making AI Art Responsibly: A Field Guide

Colo-Mítolo-Gítal

shortly, briefly

Letter to Miguel, from “These Are the Things”

Cat Scratch Fever vol. 1

Different Nourishment: Exordium

Pumasi: A Lasers & Feelings Hack

Mosqhoq (Dreamer/Soñadora)

With a Lever: The DIY Guide to Institutional Change for Racial Equity

El Código de Wira Cocha: Simbolismo Milenario Andino

Alt Worlds Collab

Philippines

China

Cantonese

Andes

A creative game of telephone, this was created for the <a href="https://www.altsalt.com/community/project/alternative-worlds/1">Alternative Worlds</a> shared collection and contains poetry, artwork, and reflections on our creative processes as they relate to our Andean and Asian cultural heritages.

Located across the United States, each person passed the project to the next, who then responded to the previous piece, building up the collaboration via long distance in a way befitting of our times — digital, cultural correspondence :D

Cultural Correspondence

Andean Futurist Manifesto

Andean Sky

Riveted in the Word

(Dear Charles #3) Thinking, Feeling, Creating

Rooombra to the Rescue

Test Publication

Choclo y Chicha Vol. 2

Free

Paid

Resonate

Quwicha Zines

I'm a software developer, director of Artmayu Studios, and founder of AltSalt.I love the digital and literary worlds, especially exploring new kinds of digital literature, from experimental multimedia books to narrative adventure games.Currently, I'm in the process of learning more about my Andean background, and thinking through how to bridge that heritage with the world of technology.

The Andean diaspora* community in the United States is confronted with discrimination and a sense of dual exclusion from both Latinx and white US heritages due to histories of colonialism and imperialism that continue to impose Western epistemologies across time and borders. Rima(y) Raíz, an Andean diaspora collective based in NYC, NJ, IL and CA, confronts these issues by documenting and sharing inter-generational oral hxstories of the Andean diaspora in efforts to reclaim a sense of identity, alter dominant narratives about their communities, preserve experiences and knowledge of their elders for the next generation, and create a sense of solidarity. &nbsp;We are inspired by Andean notions of time, space, and community such as pachakutik and the ayllu and we choose oral hxstory as a medium due to its inter-disciplinary, borderless nature. Oral hxstory also acts as a way to decolonize the production of knowledge. The main components of the project are (1) interview three generations across the US-Andean diaspora, including community leaders (2) archive the oral histories in a public website, (3) share and discuss the stories via a podcast, zine, public space installations, and virtual Raymi or parties, and (4) organize gatherings of Andean organizations and leaders to celebrate and unite cultural advocacy efforts.Coloniality may have traversed time and space, but so has our resistance.*The Andean diasporic community includes people with South American heritage from Andean countries such as Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru. Hence, Rimay Raiz utilizes the term Andean to refer to this region of South America, as opposed to folks that are strictly from the highlands. We remain inclusive of the many nationalities in the Andean region, and recognize that people that may identify with diverse backgrounds, such as that of the coast and the Amazon, Black, Indigenous, mestizo, and we welcome all people who identify with our mission and background, whether they are recent immigrants, second generation, or have not connected to their ancestral countries for generations.

I am gardener and composter passionate about equity in the food system. Quinoa scholar and oral history and community archive enthusiast. Runasimita yachapakuq. Member of the Rimay Raiz colectivo.&nbsp;

Ecuadorian-American sociologist, of Huancavilca and Kichwa descent. Bi-coastal, born in Queens, NY and raised in both NY and CA. Musician, community activist, project coordinator at an immigrant and workers rights org, and co-founder of Rimay Raiz.&nbsp;

Editorial content by the AltSalt team.

Shirley identifies as a queer, asian-american woman of color. She works as a community organizer in Northern Colorado and as a yoga teacher. When not being self-referential in a bio, you can find her painting watercolors, biking around town, dancing, or reading a book.

Imanalla! I'm Sandy, a zinester librarian in sunny southern California. I started making zines as a way to practice and maintain Quechua, my ancestral language and one of the most widely spoken Indigenous languages of the Americas. I now feel like I have too many zine ideas and too little time, but I try to make it work!&nbsp;I participate in several Andinx community projects like the annual May Sumak Quichwa Film Showcase and oral history collective Rimay Raíz. I love creating spaces for our community to share our cultures, languages, and experiences in the diaspora.&nbsp;In my spare time, I enjoy reading/watching things in the realms of sci-fi, fantasy, or horror. I also like to weave and garden (especially with, you guessed it, Andean potatoes!).&nbsp;

Writing, scriptwriting, andean ethnofuturism, nueva trova, improvised music, folk music, non white centric SciFi, decolonization and decolonising art

I'm a writer and cartographer. I mostly write scif/fantasy and have worked on some table top rpg projects such as the in*die zine and unbreakable rpg. I manage the integral states project, where I draw US states and territories as fantasy maps and pair them with pre-colonial histories.&nbsp;

Envisioning an alternative world

From the Community

Heritage, music, and creative freedom

On "Different Folks" and Andean musical fusion

displacement.

Becoming Our Own Prayer

First Letter to Art - Human Nature, Technology, and Blown Up Babies

Within the Fold

Andean Sacred Geometry

"To Dream and Be Intentional" — Interview with Shirley Man-Kin Leung

Alternative Worlds: The Andes and Asian America

The Coming Out Ring

What is Resonance?

Choclo y Chicha: a zine for (and from) the Andean Diaspora

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From the Community

Heritage, music, and creative freedom

On "Different Folks" and Andean musical fusion

displacement.

Becoming Our Own Prayer

First Letter to Art - Human Nature, Technology, and Blown Up Babies

Within the Fold

Andean Sacred Geometry

"To Dream and Be Intentional" — Interview with Shirley Man-Kin Leung

Alternative Worlds: The Andes and Asian America

The Coming Out Ring

What is Resonance?

Choclo y Chicha: a zine for (and from) the Andean Diaspora

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