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Jori Lewis
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Author of Slaves for Peanuts. Editor @adi_magazine
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"When Josefa heard that bird camouflaged among the trunks, she remembered when mother had run away from home."

New fiction, "The River of Birds" by Quya Reyna, translated by Andree Michelle Viladegut Peñaranda is live today on Adi's website!

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The River of Birds
He who leaves, takes his memory,  his way of being river, of being air,  of being goodbye and never. Love, Rosario Castellanos When Josefa heard that bird camouflaged among the trunks, she reme...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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"As some of the oldest creatures on land, it makes sense that spiders are often part of our origin stories."

A new essay, "Islands in the Sky" by Ashia S. Ajani, is live today on the Adi website!

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Islands in the Sky
Everywhere I go, spiders seem to find me. If not spiders then their webs, clingy strings meant to capture prey or capture your attention. Something about spiders’ craftiness, their art of living, the ...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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"There is an age-old question about who came first: the River or the People? The answer you get depends on who you ask."

Innocent Chizaram Ilo's short story "Bridge Gringo" is live on the Adi site today, with stunning art by our new illustrator, Jinhwa Jang!

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Bridge Gringo
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November 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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"What a wonder, what a word, almost wander,
as in through a luminous forest of dreams, almost window,
a sly peephole into forever..."

Natalie Wee's poem "Queer Ecology" is up on the Adi site this week, with art by Herikita!

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Queer Ecology
While admiring the bounty of tomatoes in Q and M’s garden,we’re visited by crows. There are two, which makes it a murder.Q says that’s sick, sick itself a word inverted like a dogbelly-up in the grass...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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"Language is where I grew less
small light streaming through the gaps
between my fingers..."

New poetry up today on the Adi website! We're thrilled to share Ezza Ahmed's "Ten Days in the Tall Trees," with art by Larissa Ribeiro!

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Ten Days in the Tall Trees
Water called out to meeach mouth a lush bluegarden, window, a warning:The rooftop is the worst.Sight is nothing but an opportunityto become the mountain’sbruised heads disru...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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"Telling someone from Brazil that I grew up in the MST almost always involves baggage on their side and mine."

Read Carolina Simionato's essay on joys and struggles of movement-building, out today from Adi!

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The Sweetness of the Imperfect Struggle
In early 2023, I decided to move back to southern Brazil from Germany, where I had lived for five years. I then came back to my parents’ small farm in Paraná, in our town’s Landless Workers’ Movement ...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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"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.
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صبر saber
If another person asks me about what do I think is the solution to the “conflict”I’ll tell them about the cacti who knows the hands picking its prickly fruitthe cacti ...
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October 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Congratulations to Adi's nominees for the Best of the Net anthology @sundresspub.bsky.social! 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! ♥
September 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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My mini poem, titled, "Where do you go when the Genocide is too Loud" is out today on @adimagazine.bsky.social 🎉

Incredibly honoured that the editors chose to give this piece a home.

And, as always, #FreePalestine 🇸🇩
In the cracks between my teeth, where my prayers take shape. In the hollow of my palms, where they are answered. FATIMA ABDULLAHI Fatima Abdullahi is a writer across genres She won the 2025 Isele Poetry Prize, placed second in the 2023 Dreamfoundry Emerging Writer's Contest, and was runner up in the 2023 Valiant Scribe Poetry Competition. She was also one of the five winners of the Abebi Afro-nonfiction Award for her essay "Roots." Her carefully crafted works have appeared in several literary spaces, including: Dark Matter Magazine, Augur Magazine, Midnight & Indigo, Isele Magazine & Lolwe, among others. She stands for truth and freedom from oppression, and is a staunch advocate of the Palestinian cause.
October 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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"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."

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A Lullaby for Gaza
report: 70% of Gaza land designated as security zone an engine haunts my body— one hand iron, one leg machine. it drags itself through the alleys of my ribs. do you smell flesh? taste bloo...
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October 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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"Star is my name. Something quiet but also an incandescence. I like that word: its sound lingers like embers floating up to the night sky."

Gabriela Jauregui's haunting short story "Citlalli" is out today from Adi!

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Citlalli
A star reflects light. It is a distant light. It is a center, surrounded. It is what surrounds the center. A celestial body. It hides. Twinkles. Star is my name. Something quiet but also an incandesce...
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July 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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“Buried Sunshine” my essay on Illinois coal mining and Black and Indigenous histories of violence is now out!
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Buried Sunshine | Jori Lewis
When I was knee-high to a grasshopper, we lived in a house in the country—on a rural road on the outskirts of Springfield, Illinois, where the water was
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July 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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"i
betrays you
you comedy
fool you
greying
ghost—"

There's a new poem by Dior J. Stephens out today at Adi!

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222 or asyndetic
ibetrays youyou comedyfool yougreyingghost—ihides fromi’s facein mirrorsmadeshuttershut—idisassemblesi’sself insubzerooverthinkeach nighteach bit—i’s ichopped upfor parts—ilibe-rates y-ousi-debysi-de ...
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July 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Adi's first graphic essay "Tiny T" by the wonderful Nasrin Sheykhi is out today on the website! Check out this essay on Nasrin's fraught immigration to the US and her subsequent "Tiny Trump" portrait.

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Tiny T
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July 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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"Is the world willing to hear, or are we only speaking into an echo chamber of grief?"

Read Alaa Alqaisi's devastating essay, "The Double Life of a Palestinian Translator," out today from Adi.

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The Double Life of a Palestinian Translator
I. The Translator as a Witness to Vanishing Worlds To be a Palestinian translator is to become an intermediary between a vanishing world and one that often refuses to acknowledge its disappearance....
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July 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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This heat wave is absolutely bone crushing. I'm so glad I installed central air two years ago.

But if you're without AC, or you're dealing with a heat wave for the first time because it's reaching areas that don't historically get this hot, here are a few tips from my years of poverty in a desert:
June 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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‘The US and Israeli governments have presented the offensive as a pre-emptive effort to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, but that justification is laughable. Israel, on the other hand, has hundreds of undeclared nuclear weapons.’

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Tom Stevenson | Operation Rising Lion
Israel’s codename for its attack on Iran, launched last Friday, was Operation Rising Lion, a pointed reference to...
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June 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Tiberius—

"There has never been a better time to watch this video"
June 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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The decision in Skrmetti lets politicians create their own evidence to justify banning necessary healthcare.

It's bad, writes @evanurquhart.bsky.social. Not just for trans people, but for anyone whose healthcare is or could potentially be politically contested.

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Court’s Ruling in Skrmetti Threatens All Care That’s Politically Contested — Assigned
An anti-trans, anti-science decision relies on a history of discrimination against women, and opens the door to challenges on care like vaccines.
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June 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Adi is publishing weekly!
adimagazine.bsky.social Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · Jun 17
Adi is evolving! We will now publish a new piece weekly! This shift means we can offer readers more timely writing about how global policies affect our lives.

Please follow along + sign up for our newsletter—exciting things to come ❤️

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Editor’s Note
Adi Magazine is evolving! We will now publish a new piece every week, curating a selection of creative nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, and visual art on the ideas and stories that provoke and inspi...
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June 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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When I heard the mom of a trans girl say the night her daughter came out to her was the first time she'd ever seen her child happy, I knew it was a story I needed to share.

These are the stories the public isn't hearing. An honor to get to report on 3 family's journeys for @teenvogue.com.
Why These Trans Teens and Their Families Risked Everything to Get Gender-Affirming Care
It’s as simple as love.
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June 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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CALLING ALL POETS! Adi is open for poetry submissions with a focus on alternative political visions from 5/9 - 5/31!

Send 3-5 poems to us via Submittable. We're thrilled to offer free submissions and $150 for accepted pieces. Can't wait to read your poems! ☀️

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May 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Friendly reminder that our submissions are still open for fiction! You've got until 5/4 to send us your alternative political visions. We offer free submissions and $500 for accepted short fiction or $200 for accepted flash fiction!

Submit here: adimagazine.submittable.com/submissions
April 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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"what does Earth look like / from inside time"

Happy Earth Day! We're celebrating by sharing "Solastalgia" by Adriana Lisboa, translated by Alison Entrekin!

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Solastalgia
translated by Alison Entrekin Mars is closer to Earth precisely today 56 million kilometers a glowing red dot we’d say a star from here from this other dot where fireflies survive precisely t...
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April 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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"Despite being separated by a steel boundary, and despite being unable to close the space between us, we hugged as if our lives depended on it, as if family wasn’t made to be broken."

Hannah Keziah Agustin's new essay, "World Without End," is out today!

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World Without End
On Christmas Day, my family and I wrapped our warm bodies against the arbitrary demarcations of the Canada-U.S. border. Mom, Dad, Ate Han, Mamita, and I were on the American side, and Tito Ben, Tita E...
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April 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM