Un collage de una mujer en ropa de verano; tres mujeres autoritarias; una niña contra el cielo en la noche; una mujer con sus ojos cerrados; un patrón de geometría sagrada; una pintura de pájaros de pintura al agua chino; una mujer dormiendo; una mujer vestida de poncho; una mujer con una pistola

A photo of a woman wearing Philippine cultural attire with illustrations and typography overlaid.

Flags of Ukraine and Trans Rights above an image of Spongebob and Patrick Starr smashing a computer with the title "Letter to Art, Ukraine, Trans Rights, and Doom(scrolling)"

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Envisioning the Future

I’ve started and stopped this letter about 10 times now. It’s like, how do you capture a crystallized moment of what you’re thinking and feeling? Then you look back and recognize that the person you were before is just an echo, and you’re slightly changed despite being the same.

Moreso than before, I’m coming to appreciate how everything and everyone is in a constant state of renewal and transformation.

We might take someone’s outward appearance for granted, just beneath the surface though everything is always flowing. It takes listening to one another’s stories to feel just how malleable life is; and there’s so much beauty in that.

In terms of where I am lately, I’ve been trying to do a better job of expressing gratitude. Before meals, for example — and I don’t always remember to do this — I’ll touch my necklace of an Andean cross under my shirt to be thankful for the meal, and to recognize all of the processes required for that food to arrive in front of me. In this way, I’m trying to make more aspects of my life sacred, in a world where so many things are made to feel cheap and disposable.

In your last letter, you wrote about how technology has accelerated the rate of change between generations, and how some Gen Zers look to millennials rather than elders for guidance on navigating life’s challenges. I feel that. We’re all improvising, learning from one another, taking things a step at a time.

This also leads me to think about our institutions and cultural practices. My gut feeling is that many of our institutions are inadequate, on an existential level, to address the challenges of our times, including these generational gaps that you mention. For sure this challenge isn’t unique to our moment — still, it’s wild to think how we’re facing a climate crisis, mental health crisis, pandemic, and more all at once.

In face of all this, I feel like social media and technology is a way of putting a bandaid on something that’s broken and needs tending to. It’s easier to caught up doomscrolling, to get a dopamine rush, than to address how we can create a fundamentally healthier culture overall. Maybe though that does begin on a person to person level, like this, you and me, talking about stuff as we see it, maybe thinking about what could be.

You spoke briefly about how our approach to creating technology contributes to the divide between generations and is fundamental in the issues we face. Of course, someone — in this case, millennials, Gen X, and Boomers — were the ones who created and financed all of these systems. So a big question for me is, what are the cultural values in place that allow such institutions to flourish? If we had a different system of values, would we as a culture gravitate towards different kinds of experiences?

It’s a tall question. Myself, I’m thinking of what it takes to make a shift in culture, even in my own life. I’ve been trying, as mentioned, to think more deeply about my connection to the earth and the processes around me. The small acts of gratitude I’ve been doing are, I think, contributing to a sense of consciousness and connection that has started to make me feel, rather than fragmented and anxious, whole.

It’s still an ongoing process, and I’m not sure where this ends up for me. I do know that, rather than taking a plane to see my family in Florida for a wedding this October, I instead booked a train despite it being more expensive and taking more time. It’s a sacrifice for sure, and it was painful to do it. At the same time, I feel at least that I’m living a truth that goes beyond the individualistic, frenetic emphasis on everything being fast, and cheap, instead thinking more holistically about how my actions impact the planet, trying to cultivate different ways of being within myself.

I’ll leave you with this last thought: I recently got myself a plant. It’s a bromeliad, an offset from one owned by my mom. It’s such a seemingly insignificant thing; for someone so mired in technology and disconnected from nature here in NYC though — always thinking about being more productive, more of this, more of that — it felt like a step towards something. Who knows how these little changes will add up. It’s a journey for sure, and honestly I’m just being led by faith and intuition, a sincere belief that everything will lead to a better future and, in a traditional Andean view of reality, that the mind and body are one.

Anyway, I’ve been so glad to be able to write this to you. Apologies for the delay, and I’m looking forward to reading your next letter (which has already been published for a while now!)

We might take someone’s outward appearance for granted, just beneath the surface though everything is always flowing. It takes listening to one another’s stories to feel just how malleable life is...

(Dear Charles #2) Cultivating Cultural Change

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Letter to Art #4 - Ukraine, Trans Rights, and Doomscrolling (March 2022)

Turn out the lights and explore a dream world in Ana Somnia

New feature now available: Resonating

Alternative Worlds: The Andes and Asian America

Los ecos de nuestros ancestros que se escuchan
a través del tiempo y el espacio,
nosotros encontraremos la llave para el futuro,
al mirar en nuestro pasado.

¡Se hace un llamado a toda nuestra gente andina y asiatico americana! AltSalt está creando dos colecciones multidisciplinarias de trabajo creativo, y queremos que seas parte del proyecto.

¿Para quien?: Creadores de zines, escritores, diseñadores, creadores de juegos, creadores de videos, músicos, y creadores de cualquier medio artístico que se identifican como andinos o como asioamericanos.

¿Tópico?: Trabajo en equipos o trabajo independiente para someter una publicación basada en la siguiente idea: “Imaginar o visualizar un futuro en que tu cultura, historia y valores han guiado al mundo a una realidad alternativa, y empleando esa energía, crear una pieza artística que se haga sentir a la par con nuestros tiempos.”

¿Cuándo?: El desarrollo del trabajo se puede empezar tan pronto como leas este mensaje. Ofreceremos un taller el 17-18 de julio, para compartir progreso y conocernos como participantes. Los trabajos finales serán sometidos el domingo 15 de agosto. Los días se van volando- empezemos pronto!

Únete a nuestro Discord (opcional, altamente recomendado)

Aviso: También le damos la bienvenida a personas que quieren colaborar entres ambas culturas. Si quieres trabajar en equipo y combinar la cultura andina y la cultura asiática… HAZLO! Destacaremos proyectos que combinan ambas culturas dentro de una parte especial en las colecciones.

Pensar y recopilación de ideas, formación de equipos, empezar a trabajar



Sábado 17 de julio — Domingo 18 de julio

Talleres de fin de semana para socializar y compartir progreso



Domingo 18 de julio — Domingo 15 de agosto

Continuar trabajando en los proyectos y entrega de proyectos finalizados



Presentación colaborativa y lanzamiento de las colecciones

Nuestra Visión en General — Nuestro propósito es visualizar y crear un mundo alternativo a través de nuestra creatividad colectiva. Para crecer en comunidad, debemos ser curiosos en crecer no solamente personalmente sino también con las multitudes con las que nos cruzamos. Esperamos que esta será la primera de muchas iniciativas para crear solidaridad a través de comunidades y compartir conocimiento. Transcendamos los bordes sociales y conectémonos.

¿Por qué estas dos comunidades? Son las que nosotros, los organizadores, somos más familiarizados, y de las cuales somos parte. ¡Esperamos ofrecer un espacio similar para otras comunidades en AltSalt en el futuro!

Abierto Para Toda Gente Creativa — No importa cuál es tu etapa dentro del proceso creativo, o si tus obras son gratuitas or comerciales, puedes inscribirte.

¿Ya has creado trabajo y quieres incluirlo en las colecciones?



¿Has empezado a trabajar en proyectos creativos pero no has tenido la oportunidad de terminarlos?



¿Eres nuevo en el proceso de crear zines o publicaciones creativas?

¡Serás bienvenido a participar! Solo llenar nuestro formulario, inscribirse a nuestra comunidad de creativos en Discord para encontrar inspiración, colaboradores, o guía, e involucrarte con nuestros próximos eventos.

La colección andina busca destacar trabajos creativos y artísticos en medios y estilos de publicación diversos por creadores que se autoidentifican como andinos/andinas/andinxes. Utilicemos el término ‘andino’ para honrar nuestra historia compartida antes de la colonización, aunque sabemos que hoy estamos muchos acostumbrados a identificarnos por nacionalidad (como peruano o peruano-americano). Apreciamos la complejidad rica de identidades representada en nuestra comunidad y damos la bienvenida a cualquiera para participar que tenga vínculos ancestrales o sociales a los Andes (sea Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Perú, Bolivia, etc.) y sus diásporas. La identidad andina también es interseccional y se extiende más allá de una dicotomía indígena, español, mestizo, o latinx/latiné. Por esa razón, somos inclusivos de diásporas diversas como las comunidades nikkei del Perú y de las comunidades descendientes de africanos.

Esta colección es por y para nosotros, nuestros ancestros, y futuras generaciones. Nuestra meta es que se sienta familiar y al mismo tiempo enteramente nueva porque incluye perspectivas diversas dentro de nuestro repertorio de culturas, que tan poco se ve representado en la narrativa dominante.

Este es un espacio experimental para explorar tu identidad individual, tu creatividad, y ser parte de nuestra comunidad. Te invitamos a visitarnos, contribuir y colaborar de la manera que sea más interesante para ti.

C O L E C C I O N    A S I A T I C O A M E R I C A N A

La colección asiaticoamericana busca explorar las diversas facetas de las experiencias y herencias culturales variadas de los asioamericanos a través de medios y publicaciones creativas. Esta colección es para y por asioamericanos, incluyendo aquellos quienes sus herencias incluyen Asia del Este, Sureste, y Sur, las islas del Pacífico, y las identidades multiétnicas y diaspóricas.

En definir una colección, las distinciones entre quien está incluido dentro del ‘nosotros’ es incierto. Dentro de nuestras comunidades, hay desigualdades de poder entre los grupos. Diferencias entre ‘asioamericano’ a través de clase socioeconómico, color, género, sexo, religión, estatus migratorio, historia, y origen nacional produce historias desproporcionadas y desbalanciadas, además de encuentros con violencia estatal. Adicionalmente, llamados para comunidad pueden ofrecer unidad estratégica pero borrar los efectos diferentes de racialización y colonización bajo un término general. En vez de exigir inclusión, nuestra colección ofrece un espacio para compartir narratives que se tratan de diferentes interacciones entre historias y experiencias, con aquellos que se identifican como asioamericanos.

Esta colección busca proveer un espacio para explorar la identidad, fortalecer comunidades y crear una fuente creativa para nutrirnos, llenar nuestras almas, y explorar sin restricciones y extender los límites de nuestras imaginaciones, usando nuestra práctica creativa para reflexionar sobre nuestros tiempos compartidos hacia un futuro de liberación colectiva.

¿Interesado? ¡Llena nuestro formulario!

Para visualizar un mundo alternativo, y
porque nuestra representación es importante,
compartiendo conocimiento y consciencia,
crearemos el futuro.

De izquierda a derecha: Arte por Jessica Tin, Jamie San Andres de Rimay Raiz, Layqa Nuna Yawar, Lia Coleman, Felix Kar-wah Fok cortesía de Shirley Man-Kin Leung, Sandy Enriquez, Adina Farinango y Angela DelosReyes. Patrón de fondo por Artemio Morales con agradecedimiento por las enseñanzas de Zadir Milla Euribe, Música por Jonathan Morales. 

¡Se hace un llamado a toda nuestra gente andina y asioamericana! AltSalt está creando dos colecciones multidisciplinarias de trabajo. Queremos que seas parte de este proyecto.

Mundos Alternatives: Los Andes y América Asiatica

The Birth of Andean Futurism

Bibliography of Andean Myths

Alternative Worlds Workshop Weekend Schedule

Andean Sacred Geometry

What is Resonance?

Reverberating with the past

(Dear Charles) The Shape of Our Future

Initially, I wanted to start this project under the idea of being a “perpetual foreigner,” or the concept that regardless of me being an American citizen and having the tokens of what makes up an American (whatever that means… since the U.S. is a mix of cultures after all), I will always be perceived as “the other''.

As I was working on the project, I was led to a different and more general idea of the modernization of culture; sometimes it feels like culture is conflated with history (in that it is old and static) and we view it as a separate entity all together. I feel like knowledge of culture is often treated as a novelty or a parlor trick, like knowing how to dance tinikling or speak Tagalog, or even something as simple as eating a Filipino dish.

For some Filipino Americans, and for many other second generation immigrants, they aren’t given a choice of being able to celebrate their culture or not. And for many first generation immigrants, they leave behind a culture that continues to change even while they are away: there’s new slang, new pop culture trends, and maybe even a different political climate.

The debate between mainlanders versus the diaspora has been prevalent on social media but has been the worst on TikTok, I’ve found. The word “toxic” is commonly thrown around nowadays but that’s the best way to describe the lack of critical thinking, the apathy, and the refusal to take responsibility for and acknowledge mistakes. It’s difficult for me who sits on the fence of these two identities to be invalidated and for discussions to be halted because the desire to be correct outweighs the desire to learn… well that and the fact that I’ve seen arguments turn into ad hominem attacks. Thankfully I haven’t personally experienced any of this yet, but this is something I keep in the back of my mind that sometimes keeps me from putting my work out there (I’m slowly getting over it though).

To the main point of this work: culture is now. Thanks to the internet (as corny as it sounds), I can be 8,757 miles away from my hometown in the Philippines and still be caught up on the news, pop culture, and memes. But that can’t replace me physically being there and experiencing everything myself. Of course, I acknowledge that this comes from a place of privilege because I have the financial means to live comfortably. However, in a way, I feel lost. After taking a year off of my art and taking a step back, it would seem as though I was looking through my culture through that historical lens I mentioned earlier.

This work is a baby step for me. I think I’m moving in the direction I want my work to go in, both in terms of media and focus. I don’t know why it’s so hard for me to create work. Is it because I lack guidance? Or creativity? Materials? I know that I am an impulsive artist that creates work when the spark happens, but I wonder if there is a way for me to nurture that better…

Anyway, let’s talk about the process and ideas that come into this work. This is a continuation of my photo collaboration project that I did for my senior thesis. I decided to get rid of the square dimensions and go for an 8x10 inches size.

I knew I wanted to wear the barong, so that was an easy choice.

I decided to tuck my hair to mimic choking or the feeling of being overwhelmed or drowning (I think I’ll make another project for this).

I love my hair. It used to be down to butt. But I would use it as a femininity marker to compare myself to other women. I knew I did this and I knew it was wrong. I cut it to my chin when I was a sophomore in college. I can’t tell you enough how disgusted I am with myself that I was like that. And doing that did help.

The typography stickers are slang that’s commonly used today (and some even I use). I had to ask my boyfriend any other terms he knew since I felt like the ones I knew were pretty outdated.

If you’re familiar with Japan’s purikura, or photo sticker booth, I’m sure you can see the inspiration. Culture was formed hundreds of years ago, but we insert ourselves into it and shape it today.

I honestly didn’t know how to tastefully illustrate on top of this, not that it needed to be aesthetically pleasing, I just didn’t know how to combine the background and the foreground to make it look like a complete piece. I didn’t want to edit the original photo too much but I also didn’t want it to look like it was just a photo.

I’m satisfied with how this piece turned out. I will keep this written piece as raw as possible for genuity purposes (and it would be nice to see where my head was when I look back later). 

AVDLR is an artist that creates works based on her exploration through her Filipino American identity. Acceptance is the first piece she created post graduation where she continues that exploration.

Acceptance

I was right there with you in your mission statement, about feeling the dual exclusion from both Latinx and U.S. heritages. I've felt that so much growing up as a Peruvian in the United States, and I'm so glad that this organization exists 🙏I resonated so much with Marisol's poem, with the mixture of Spanish and English, and with the connection to your grandfather and thinking about future generations' connection to their heritage.I resonated with Elena's piece, when you spoke about going to Peru and the eagerness to fill a hole made of solitude.I was right there with Analisa in so many parts of her story, riding on the swerving bus with the sheer drop to the ocean, when you met your brother for the first time, and forgetting how to speak in any language.Super appreciate all that the contributors shared during both of your events. Congrats on this publication, looking forward to the next one 🙂

<a href="/artemiosans" target="_self">@Artemio Morales</a> thank you so much for your poetry of a mesaage! it's an honor to have pieces of myself living on this online community.

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A Modern Ghost

Choclo y Chicha Vol. 1

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Your thoughts wander at sunset, taking you to different conclusions like waves to different shores...

This is a text-based game where you view the sights and sounds of the sunset and provide a space to inhabit your personal thoughts and feelings.

It was inspired by my experiences with meditation and the process of how innocuous thoughts could lead to more personal ones in a nonconfrontational way.

As such there are multiple conclusions you may reach with yourself.

Will you experience joy? Sorrow? Love? Loss?

Remember, your thoughts are yours alone to share.

- Mudita Heart

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Quechualish is a zine I made about learning my ancestral language, Runasimi (better known as Quechua).

I made this zine for people like me, who want to learn Quechua and connect to it because it is their culture and ancestry.

It is a short zine with only 4 pages. This zine centers on my experience as a heritage language learner. I'm not yet fluent in Quechua, so I often code-switch between Quechua/Spanish/English, which I lovingly call "Quechua-lish."

I also included some very basic and introductory lessons and short exercises in Quechua if you are interested in learning.

Quechualish: An Indigenous Language Zine

Machine learning tools provide the potential for unprecedented creative expression, but also the potential to cause unintended harms.“Making AI Art Responsibly: A Field Guide” is an illustrated zine composed of questions and case studies to help AI artists use AI techniques responsibly and with care. We suggest that artists using AI should consider themselves part of the broader responsible AI community. As a result, it is important to consider factors such as consent of people represented in your datasets, labor involved in the model development and pre-existing codebase/tools, and AI infrastructure and environmental costs of training machine learning models. We hope that artists will attend to the potentially unintended harmful consequences of work as understood in domains like information security, misinformation, the environment, copyright, and biased and appropriative synthetic media.With this guide, we believe that by reflecting on what is “responsible” for their own creative works, artists can push forward best practices employed by all AI practitioners.Doing so can ensure that they harness the expressive potential of AI, responsibly.The Responsible AI Art Field Guide has been featured by Gray Area, DISEÑA, and Mozilla Festival.&nbsp;

Making AI Art Responsibly: A Field Guide

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Artema #1: The Exile

Alt Worlds Collab

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Riveted in the Word

(Dear Charles #3) Thinking, Feeling, Creating

Rooombra to the Rescue

Test Publication

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SGI Buddhist

The theme of Choclo y Chicha Vol. 2 is ​family portraits​. Our goal was to inspire our communities to re-explore and revisit their family histories, as demonstrated through pictures, while we sheltered-in-place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We asked that all submissions include two pictures (one from the past and one from the present) and an accompanying text to draw connections between the two. Folks were invited to submit their pictures and text however they wished, whether as separate pieces or as collages or other works of art. In this section we feature pieces such as excerpts from the incredible oral history of Analisa Freitas and a beautiful poem by Marisol Silva, “when I make chicha morada and play your huaynos full blast, and I carry a backpack on the 7 train from Queens to Brooklyn brimming with jars of aji panca, aji amarillos, rocotos, I hold onto Ayni when I can’t remember words in any language, I hold onto Ayni, when I remember that who we are as a people is much too strong to ever be forgotten,” she writes. Additionally, inspired by our colectivo member Jamie San Andres’ call to action, we are excited to introduce a new section to our zine entitled ​Andean Political Reflections.​ When we first started dreaming up our zine series, we had no idea the state of the world we would be in. Since November 2019, we have seen unbearable violence and injustice across our diaspora, from the protests, uprisings, and government repression in Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, the U.S., and most recently, Peru, we know that it is important now more than ever to continue building spaces for solidarity, dialogue and discussion. Those of us Andeans living in the belly of the beast must find it our moral duty to take a stand in solidarity. This position is a principle that has guided our work since the beginning, and it is impossible to do cultural work without addressing the political. Hence, this section will be a space for community dialogue with our friends, compañerxs, partner organizations, and others to share their perspectives and reflections on important political and historical moments in the Andean diaspora. &nbsp;

Choclo y Chicha Vol. 2

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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;

I am a triple fire sign, Catholic and a feminista. My family is Peruana, my parents immigrated to the U.S. and I was raised in Central Florida. I write poetry on Mami_soy_emo on Instagram about growing up in the between of Peruvian and American culture, therapy , sisterhood, empath struggles, and my ongoing haphazarduous love life. I am inspired by my Mamá, sunsets, pollo a la brasa con papas, and humanity's ability to heal. I am also an immigration attorney who works with survivors of gender-based violence, a plant mom to 17 plants, and a mediocre ukelele player. I am currently working on a zine about my therapy journey.&nbsp;

I am an Indigenous Adoptee from Peru. I've grown up in Brooklyn, NY and I've gone back to Peru several times to reconnect with my biological family.&nbsp;

Bridging the worlds of the West and Andes through storytelling...Artmayu is a digital book production studio, and the studio behind AltSalt!Our name comes from Artemis, the Greek goddess of the moon, and Mayu, the celestial river from Andean cosmology.In addition to maintaining the AltSalt website, we make animated ebooks, games, and other creative digital projects.

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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.

animator and illustrator currently studying at school of visual arts. a rat girl

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;

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