Otherwise Magazine

29/05/2026

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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.

"At that moment I was certain our ancestors’ spirits were looking down at us. And I know they were proud"

https://www.otherwisemag.com/ancestral-threads

11/05/2026

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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"

https://www.otherwisemag.com/the-treasure-of-the-ngigua-girl

To know more about the author, check out the interview with Otherwise visual and sound editor José Sherwood González: https://www.otherwisemag.com/meet-the-author-yazmin-carrasco

15/04/2026

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What the Ngiguas did

Through the ways of ixtle and milpa, Na'o nchrii kuxranunthe, the five women of San Marcos Tlacoyalco, insist against inherited silences.

https://otherwisemag.com/what-the-ngiguas-did

"We continue and will continue to be present, until the last voice is no longer heard"

To know more about the authors, check out the interview with Otherwise visual and sound editor José Sherwood González

https://otherwisemag.com/meet-the-authors-nao-nchrii-kuxranunthe

26/03/2026

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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

https://www.otherwisemag.com/the-mirrors

To know more about the author, check out the interview with Otherwise visual and sound editor José Sherwood González: https://www.otherwisemag.com/copy-of-meet-the-author-erika-riond

09/03/2026

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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

https://www.otherwisemag.com/in-tokatl-iwan-amoxtli

04/03/2026

​​​​​In this issue, we encounter the Amoxtli Tezcatlipoca, a Mesoamerican sacred manuscript, through the stories and poems of its cultural inheritors

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: as a living being, one that is carried between worlds of language, memory and community.​

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. Guillermo López Varela follows his reflection in a pot of mole into the everyday rituals of speaking with the dead. Through the ways of ixtle and milpa, Na'o chrii kuxranunthe, the five women of San Marcos Tlacoyalco, insist against inherited silences. Yasmin Carrasco writes of a girlhood where language itself is punished, and returns memory to earth and body. Finally, Bianca Xanat Strobeck Rionda speaks from the museum in Liverpool where the Amoxtli is housed, and where anger meets ritual, ancestors and fierce pride.

Amoxtli is curated by José Sherwood González

https://www.otherwisemag.com/amoxtli

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.

The session aims to think about reciprocity paradigms and practical tips pulled from ethnography that journalists could borrow in their work.

Join anthropologists and journalists for a collaborative discussion around practical approaches for compensating co-producers of news.

10/02/2026

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How the world actually works

In this story, Dilshanie Perera learns about land and loss in Bangladesh’s delta region.

https://www.otherwisemag.com/how-the-world-actually-works

06/01/2026

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The light between strangers

In this poem, explores the contours of a new vocabulary from the internet age.

https://www.otherwisemag.com/the-light-between-strangers

To know more about the author, check out with Otherwise fiction and non-fiction editor Rosa Sansone: https://www.otherwisemag.com/meet-the-author-fiona-murphy