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"It’s in the fissures, and the resistance, the all around mess where the real learning takes place."Melissa Chadburn's e...
28/10/2025

"It’s in the fissures, and the resistance, the all around mess where the real learning takes place."

Melissa Chadburn's essay "Tilting at Windmills," about day laborers in LA County, activism, and academia, is out today from Adi.

Read here: https://adimagazine.com/articles/tilting-at-windmills/

"Mr. Pal was lost in thoughts that flashed through his mind like the small islands of light in the sea of darkness outsi...
21/10/2025

"Mr. Pal was lost in thoughts that flashed through his mind like the small islands of light in the sea of darkness outside his window."

Shigraf Zabhi's short story "Twenty Questions" about train trips, memory, and yearning is up today on the Adi website!

READ: https://adimagazine.com/articles/twenty-questions/

"I believe the poem will always lead me where I need to go."Summer Farah interviews Leila Chatti about poetry as play an...
15/10/2025

"I believe the poem will always lead me where I need to go."

Summer Farah interviews Leila Chatti about poetry as play and her new book WILDNESS BEFORE SOMETHING SUBLIME (Copper Canyon Press, 2025), now out on the website!

Read here: https://adimagazine.com/articles/interview-leila-chatti/

"we were here when the Nakba took place that spring.we hid the gold at the bottom of the well near the spring - we knew ...
10/10/2025

"we were here when the Nakba took place that spring.
we hid the gold at the bottom of the well near the spring - we knew we’d return.
we safeguard your stories when you are silenced."

"saber" by Aicha bint Yusif is live today on the Adi website.

Read: https://adimagazine.com/articles/saber/

"write my name—  Malak.  not: “female, age unknown.”  not: “Gazan civilian in a blue plastic bag."  write it today,  tom...
07/10/2025

"write my name—
Malak.
not: “female, age unknown.”
not: “Gazan civilian in a blue plastic bag."
write it today,
tomorrow,
again—
until metaphor
is no longer a metaphor."

Malak Hijazi writes from Gaza in this new poem from Adi, "A Lullaby for Gaza."

Artwork by Larissa Ribeiro.

READ: https://adimagazine.com/articles/a-lullaby-for-gaza/

"It’s important for us that revolutionary texts written by women from other countries can be rendered in our language, b...
30/09/2025

"It’s important for us that revolutionary texts written by women from other countries can be rendered in our language, because we have a lot to learn from these women. Translation enriches our language and our worldview."

In "To Write is to Serve the People," Tristan James Biglete interviews Faye Cura of Gantala Press on their work translating and publishing feminist texts at the intersection of gender and class in the Philippines!

Read here: https://adimagazine.com/articles/to-write-is-to-serve-the-people/

Congratulations to Adi's nominees for the 2026 Best of the Net anthology! We're so proud of our contributors and love a ...
26/09/2025

Congratulations to Adi's nominees for the 2026 Best of the Net anthology! We're so proud of our contributors and love a chance to shout out their incredible work. Best of luck to each of these wonderful writers and artists! ♥

Poetry:
“to birth laws of relational dark” by Leslie McIntosh
“Impulse Control” by Jessica Q. Stark

Fiction:
“How to Read the Air” by Tarfa Benson
“Dawn and Her Brother’s Ghost” by Jess Masi

Nonfiction:
“Stitching Community: The Immigrant Women Who Handmade a Brooklyn Neighborhood” by Roohi Choudhry
“First Country” by Sarah Lubala

Artwork:
Herikita
Kaya Joan
Larissa Riberio

"above from below. below from above. who convinces us that our destiny is unchanging?that we are born with fates, fixed ...
23/09/2025

"above from below. below from above.
who convinces us that our destiny is unchanging?
that we are born with fates, fixed and borrowed from the stars?"

Read angel bista's dreamy hybrid fiction, out today on the website!

https://adimagazine.com/articles/above-from-below/

"How do we write toward the unspeakable, and what does it mean to do so ethically?"Ellana Basada writes about how the st...
16/09/2025

"How do we write toward the unspeakable, and what does it mean to do so ethically?"

Ellana Basada writes about how the state controls narratives of violence, and our relationship to violence as witnesses through her analysis of Fernanda Melchor and Clarice Lispector in "The Ethics of Ambiguity."

Read here: https://adimagazine.com/articles/the-ethics-of-ambiguity/

"Why was the state so hard on people like mom? Why was its assistance so precarious and intermittent?"Abby Rocha's graph...
09/09/2025

"Why was the state so hard on people like mom? Why was its assistance so precarious and intermittent?"

Abby Rocha's graphic essay "Perseverance" is out today, discussing Rocha's relationship with their mother, their artistic journey, & more!

Read here: https://adimagazine.com/articles/perseverance/

"That was the first lesson the state taught us: that worth could be sliced between two identical bodies."Sharon Aruparay...
02/09/2025

"That was the first lesson the state taught us: that worth could be sliced between two identical bodies."

Sharon Aruparayil's story "The Year My Sister Became a Border" is published today on the Adi site, with artwork by Kaya Joan!

Read this stunning piece of short fiction here: https://adimagazine.com/articles/the-year-my-sister-became-a-border/

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