OUR NEW STORY IS OUT Ancestral threads In this new story, Bianca Xanat Strobeck Rionda speaks from the museum in Liverpool where the Amoxtli is housed, and where anger meets ritual, ancestors and fierce pride. www.otherwisemag.com/ancestral-th...

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT!! The treasure of the Ngigua girl 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" www.otherwisemag.com/the-treasure...

!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. www.otherwisemag.com/what-the-ngi...

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 www.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 www.otherwisemag.com/in-tokatl-iw...

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: Amoxtli is curated by José Sherwood González www.otherwisemag.com/amoxtli

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: www.eventbrite.ca/e/can-anthro...

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. www.otherwisemag.com/how-the-worl...

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. www.otherwisemag.com/the-light-be...

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. www.otherwisemag.com/the-light-be...

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT Do you remember that girl? In this story, @lasandunga.bsky.social searches Peru for a girl whose death she heard about years earlier otherwisemag.com/do-you-remem...

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-sta...

CONTOURS IS OUT! OUR NEW ISSUE IS OUT! Contours trace lines of connection and imagination, where boundaries push up against open space. Contours was edited by Grace Zhou Illustrations by Fulya Pınar otherwisemag.com/contours

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT Quaking Time In this story, Laura Mafizzoli, through the hypnotic curves of Georgian calligraphy, opens a Pandora’s box of contested memory: what happens when the memories of the past contradict what we were taught about it? www.otherwisemag.com/quaking-time

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT "Gabriel the killer" Alba Gutiérrez González, through bright colours and soft shapes, takes us on a visual journey to Mexico, asking us to reckon with the atrocity of humanity. www.otherwisemag.com/gabriel-the-...

Your silence is loud "These plants reminded me of my connection to the land - a way of knowing that lives in practice, in care, in a language far more honest than the one spoken in the world of German academia" A graphic story by Samir Harb www.otherwisemag.com/your-silence...

About drawing practice, wide board and Corbusier architecture in @otherwisemag.bsky.social. Thank you @letha-b.bsky.social for inviting me, it's a great honour! To all, Happy reading!

Corbu’s boars Soon, in the name of the capitalist order, the straight line became a way of acting and being present in the world Check out our latest story by Jacek Wajszczak otherwisemag.com/corbus-boars

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT Jacek Wajszczak’s wandering lines carry us into the slow, irreversible becoming of a city, where an uncanny encounter between a donkey and Le Corbusier occurs. otherwisemag.com/corbus-boars

I’m happy I had the chance to curate this entirely graphic issue for @otherwisemag.bsky.social and work together with talented artists and researchers. Checked it out - We are sure you’ll love it as much as we do! #anthropology #graphic #storytelling

From the river to the sea 🍉 🍉🍉 Thanks so much to Samir Harb for his beautiful and important and needed and timely work

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT Stockholm Nostalgia In this story, Oana Lohan takes stock of memory and objects, dragging us through the sweet traps of nostalgia. www.otherwisemag.com/stockholm-no... #ethnography #graphic #storytelling

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT Samir Harb grows seeds, lines and peace of mind, cultivating freedom in a pot of Palestinian soil otherwisemag.com/your-silence...

OUR NEW ISSUE IS OUT! GRAPHIC IS OUT! In this issue there is no conclusion to be drawn. No lesson to be learnt. Just fragments. Traces. Half-dreamt sketches of being and becoming. Graphic was curated by Letizia Bonanno www.otherwisemag.com/graphic

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT As walls threaten to close in around her, @Odelia_Younge takes (two-wheeled) flight. "I would say to myself, 'One day…'/ But that day never came" otherwisemag.com/bicycle-free...

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT! The children of Kafka In this story, Andleeb Shadani traces the lives of writers imprisoned by words. www.otherwisemag.com/the-children...

Meet the author: Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar "If we sustain our gaze and attention as we are often expected to in ethnography, we may find that the nature of things are not as they initially seem" www.otherwisemag.com/meet-the-aut...

[ARCHIVE] Way of the Danube In this story Sabin Dorohoi taps into the emotions of a child whose parents have gone abroad for work. www.otherwisemag.com/wayofthedanube Published in collaboration with @THECINEPUB #otherwisefriday

[ARCHIVE] Meet the author: Hannah Saal Sharing a secret is an act of vulnerability www.otherwisemag.com/interview/me... And her story, The STOP: www.otherwisemag.com/the-stop #otherwiseFriday

We’ve temporarily paused submissions. The coming months will be a time for reflection as we take OtherwiseMag in new directions. Submissions will reopen soon, but we’ll continue sharing our stories as usual every three weeks

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT Training (sun)glasses In this story Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar watches humanity flicker in and out of view. "He perches/ his sunglasses on/ his forehead" www.otherwisemag.com/training-sun...

[ARCHIVE] Meet the author - Daniel Orisaeke "Sometimes, we try our best to purge ourselves from the past, memories or certain mistakes made but unfortunately, they are part of us" www.otherwisemag.com/danielorisaeke #otherwiseFriday

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT Garbage men In this story, Ema Babikwa follows the trail of our unwanted. "Carcasses, they take carcasses" www.otherwisemag.com/garbage-men

Storytelling is our way of staying with the trouble, a way to find the multiple ways we are connected and related and, also, reshape those connections and relations that make our present world unsustainable. Check out over 70 stories narrating otherwise www.otherwisemag.com/pastissues

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT Somersault Gogol tells a story of words that blur into deeds. "The word we had to learn this week was defenestration" www.otherwisemag.com/somersault

OUR NEW ISSUE IS OUT! UNBINDING IS OUT In this issue, as in the world around us, certainties unravel Curated by Fatima Raja otherwisemag.com/unbinding Photo credits: Rebecca Dongallo: www.flickr.com/photos/94467...

"When I got inside the car I was asked to wear a blindfold by Deng while Charles looked ahead through the windshield." Reads like a crime story? Read more from @otherwisemag.bsky.social here: www.otherwisemag.com #anthropology

Resilience of the heart and a second chance In this story, Chrinovic Kabeya finds a second change in a singular miracle. "this was to be my first time eating a good meal" www.otherwisemag.com/resilience-o...

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT! In this story, Charles Shika Safina is saved by the forgiveness of a stranger "when I was running I fell, and when I fell they caught me" www.otherwisemag.com/suffering

A little girl in the village In this story, Rukia Seleman Bijoux traverses the line between opportunity and exploitation "Amina was not fine, but she was determined" www.otherwisemag.com/a-little-gir...

#anthropologyday @OtherwiseMag seeks to rethink anthropology as a tool to expand the vocabulary of the possible, the social, the moral, the cultural and the political. Anthropology is tool for describing what is, but also for envisaging what can be. long life to #anthropology

The proposition: for love or money In this story, Franklin Rhushenge strengthens his resolve to resist temptation "I started fighting with the two voices in my heart and I eventually defeated the voice of lust" www.otherwisemag.com/the-proposit...

"Two sides of tears" In this story, deep betrayal bolsters faith for Nicole Bachoke "but again, we survived" otherwisemag.com/two-sides-of...

An Otherwise Manifesto We see Otherwise as an interface between storytellers of the ordinary within and outside academia, activism, professional writing, visual arts, and areas of life and work where opportunities for storytelling remain limited.

OUR NEW STORY! Friendship and poverty In this story, Blandine Mulenga withstands ridicule and finds strength through the love of her mother www.otherwisemag.com/friendship-a...

"The young man in a refugee camp" A chance encounter leads to opportunity and inspiration for Robert Ndasunikwa "I put my hand on John’s back, offering him some comfort" www.otherwisemag.com/the-young-ma...

HAPPY 2025! 🎉🎉 One more year of OtherwiseMag exploring struggles, bodies, ruptures movements and intimacies, work and belonging, things happening accidentally, fragments of existence, memories and what is to tell stories through someone else's eyes. otherwisemag.com/pastissues

Safe Passages In this powerful story, John Fadhili finds his way to safety and remembers the home he left behind. "we knew we had to keep moving forward together" www.otherwisemag.com/safe-passages

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT In this story, Akili Nestor Olengo navigates his emerging independence and the love he feels for his family www.otherwisemag.com/walking-away