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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Somewhere in my home country" Jessica Ojiugo Chinonye (Nwafor) lays bare what is at stake when violence against Nigerian women goes unchecked and witness fades to blame www.otherwisemag.com/somewhere-in... Image adapted from a photo by JD ’Okhai Ojeikere, used under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license.
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Somewhere in my home country | Otherwise
We are now at Her burial, waving Her 'Gone too Soon' banner and whispering to each other
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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...
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Ancestral threads | Otherwise
At that moment I was certain our ancestors’ spirits were looking down at us. And I know they were proud
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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...
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The treasure of the Ngigua girl | OtherwiseMag
'That day I was so frightened, I made myself learn the multiplication tables' - a poem and narrative by Yazmin Carrasco in the Amoxtli issue
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
!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...
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What the Ngiguas did / Who we are | OtherwiseMag
'We continue and will continue to be present, until the last voice is no longer heard' - by Na'o nchrii kuxranunthe in the Amoxtli issue
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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
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The mirrors | OtherwiseMag
'A house painted with my father’s footsteps' - Guillermo López Varela's poems in the Amoxtli issue
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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...
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In Tokatl iwan Amoxtli | OtherwiseMag
'when memories are beginning to awaken and the seeds have begun to sprout, we must learn once again to weave like Grandmother Spider'- Erika Rionda's piece in the Amoxtli issue
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
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
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Amoxtli | OtherwiseMag
​​​​​In this issue, we encounter the Amoxtli Tezcatlipoca, a Mesoamerican sacred manuscript, through the stories and poems of its cultural inheritors
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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...
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Can anthropology help journalists ethically compensate sources?
Join anthropologists and journalists for a collaborative discussion around practical approaches for compensating co-producers of news.
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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...
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How the world actually works | Otherwise
'the roofs of homes were sheared off and went flying through the air', a story by Dilshanie Perera
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
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...
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The light between strangers | OtherwiseMag
'There’s a word that moves like a breath across the internet' - Fiona Murphy's poem in the Contours issue
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
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...
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The light between strangers | OtherwiseMag
'There’s a word that moves like a breath across the internet' - Fiona Murphy's poem in the Contours issue
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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...
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Do you remember that girl? | OtherwiseMag
'I remember that girl who died from an abortion' - a graphic piece by Sandra W Rodríguez Castañeda in the Contours issue
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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...
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the line starts here, but it moves | OtherwiseMag
'Rumors move faster than files' - Fulya Pinar's poem in the Contours issue
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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
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Contours | OtherwiseMag
'Contours mark the outlines of perception and understanding, where meaning is emergent and shifting' - Issue 17 of OtherwiseMag, edited by Grace H Zhou
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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-...
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Gabriel the killer | OtherwiseMag
'Why am I feeling sympathy for him?' - a piece by Alba Gutiérrez González in the Graphic issue
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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...
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Your silence is loud | OtherwiseMag
'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' - Samir Ha...
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jckwj.bsky.social @jckwj.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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!
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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
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Corbu's boars | OtherwiseMag
'Soon, in the name of the capitalist order, the straight line became a way of acting and being present in the world' - Jacek Wajszczak's piece in the Graphic issue
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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
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Corbu's boars | OtherwiseMag
'Soon, in the name of the capitalist order, the straight line became a way of acting and being present in the world' - Jacek Wajszczak's piece in the Graphic issue
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Letizia Letha Bonanno @letha-b.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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
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Letizia Letha Bonanno @letha-b.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
From the river to the sea 🍉 🍉🍉 Thanks so much to Samir Harb for his beautiful and important and needed and timely work
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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
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Stockholm nostalgia | OtherwiseMag
'As a child I thought there were deer among the acacia trees' - Oana Lohan's piece for the Graphic issue
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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...
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Your silence is loud | OtherwiseMag
'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' - Samir Ha...
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
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...
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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...
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The children of Kafka | OtherwiseMag
'I told her that Javed was already in love, not with a girl, but with a dead man called Kafka' - read Andleeb Shadani's short story in the Unbinding issue
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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...
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Meet the author: Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar | OtherwiseMag
'Seeing visually is only one way of seeing, and even that is not promised to be real' - An interview with the writer of 'Training (sun)glasses' in the Unbinding issue
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
[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
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
[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
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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...
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Training (sun)glasses | OtherwiseMag
'He perches/ his sunglasses on/ his forehead' A poem by Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar for the Unbinding issue
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
[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
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Meet the author: Daniel Orisaeke | Otherwise
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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
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Somersault | OtherwiseMag
'The word we had to learn this week was defenestration' - In the Unbinding issue, Gogol tells a story of words that blur into deeds
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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...
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
"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
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Somersault | OtherwiseMag
'The word we had to learn this week was defenestration' - In the Unbinding issue, Gogol tells a story of words that blur into deeds
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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...
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Resilience of the heart and a second chance | OtherwiseMag
'this was to be my first time eating a good meal' - Chrinovic Kabeya finds a second change in a singular miracle in the Junctions issue
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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
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Suffering | OtherwiseMag
'when I was running I fell, and when I fell they caught me' - Charles Shika Safina's story about being saved by the forgiveness of a stranger in the Junctions issue
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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...
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
#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
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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...
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The proposition | OtherwiseMag
'I started fighting with the two voices in my heart and I eventually defeated the voice of lust' - a story about temptation by Franklin Rhusenge
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
"Two sides of tears" In this story, deep betrayal bolsters faith for Nicole Bachoke "but again, we survived" otherwisemag.com/two-sides-of...
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Two sides of tears by Nicole Bachoke | OtherwiseMag
'But again, we survived.' A story in the Junctions issue
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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.
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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...
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'Friendship and poverty' by Blandine Mulenga | OtherwiseMag
'I went home unhappy because of the words the woman said to me' A story in the Junctions issue
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
"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...
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The young man in a refugee camp | OtherwiseMag
'I put my hand on John’s back, offering him some comfort' - A chance encounter leads to opportunity and inspiration for Robert Ndasunikwa.
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
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
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
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
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'Safe passages' by John Fadhili | Otherwise
'we knew we had to keep moving forward together'
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