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displacement.
A piece about the conflicting experience of being disconnected from cultures that have faced so much adversity and colonization. It is about feeling intrinsically connected…
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Becoming Our Own Prayer
Created for the Asian American collection of Alternative Worlds. Called forth from the dreamers, healers,witches, womxn of our bloodlinewe are the beginning of a new story,no longer forced…
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First Letter to Art – Human Nature, Technology, and Blown Up Babies
Dear Art, I’m happy to be writing to you in this new format, in these times. I think it feels like taking a coat of…
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Within the Fold
A short story about legacy, revolution, and obliquely, terraforming Mars. Also contains a dumpling recipe. ◇ ◇ ◇ The morning of the ritual, my fathers…
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“To Dream and Be Intentional” — Interview with Shirley Man-Kin Leung
This is the first in a series of posts to highlight members of the AltSalt community. First up we have Shirley Man-Kin Leung, a community organizer…
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Alternative Worlds: The Andes and Asian America
◇ ◇ ◇ Echoes of our ancestors,Heard across time and space,We find the key to our futureAs we look into the past. ◇ ◇ ◇…
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The Coming Out Ring
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…
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Choclo y Chicha: a zine for (and from) the Andean Diaspora
Rima(y) Raíz is a community collective created by and for the Andean/Andinx1 diaspora community of the United States. Launched in 2018 in New York City and…
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On “Different Folks” and Andean musical fusion
Jessica Kahn is a musician and educator of Jewish, Scottish, and Andean descent, and contributor to the Alternative Worlds Andean collection. Here follows an interview wherein we asked…
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Heritage, music, and creative freedom
Here follows an interview with Alejandro Fernandez, an Aymara descendant and contributor to the Alternative Worlds Andean collection. Alejandro creates improvised and progressive psychedelic folk music and…
