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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 18d

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...

'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...

Corbu's boars | OtherwiseMag

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jckwj.bsky.social @jckwj.bsky.social · 19d

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!

otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 22d

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

'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

Corbu's boars | OtherwiseMag

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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 22d

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

'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

Corbu's boars | OtherwiseMag

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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 29d

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

'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 · Sep 1

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

otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · Aug 11

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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Letizia Letha Bonanno @letha-b.bsky.social · Sep 1

From the river to the sea 🍉 🍉🍉

Thanks so much to Samir Harb for his beautiful and important and needed and timely work

otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · Aug 12

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...

'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...

Stockholm nostalgia | OtherwiseMag

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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · Aug 21

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

'As a child I thought there were deer among the acacia trees' - Oana Lohan's piece for the Graphic issue

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Rachel Smith @valuequestion.bsky.social · Aug 1

Samir Harb @samirharb.bsky.social on living through a genocide in the silence of German academia @otherwisemag.bsky.social www.otherwisemag.com

'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 · Aug 12

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...

'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 · Aug 11

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

otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · Jul 9

To know more about the author, check out the interview with Otherwise poetry editor Grace Zhou:

otherwisemag.com/meet-the-aut...

'Freedom to me means the freedom to choose joy and to move in my blackness how I desire'

otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · Jul 9

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...

The children of Kafka | OtherwiseMag

otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · Jun 19

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...

'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

Meet the author: Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar | OtherwiseMag

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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · Jun 10

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...

'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

otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · Jun 6

[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

otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · May 30

[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

otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · May 29

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

Training (sun)glasses | OtherwiseMag

otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · May 28

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...

'He perches/ his sunglasses on/ his forehead' A poem by Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar for the Unbinding issue

Meet the author: Daniel Orisaeke | Otherwise

otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · May 16

[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

otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · May 14

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

Somersault | OtherwiseMag

otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · May 8

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 · May 7

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

'The word we had to learn this week was defenestration' - In the Unbinding issue, Gogol tells a story of words that blur into deeds

Somersault | OtherwiseMag

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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · May 6

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 · Apr 25

"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

'The word we had to learn this week was defenestration' - In the Unbinding issue, Gogol tells a story of words that blur into deeds