otherwisemag.bsky.social
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A magazine of storytelling and ethnography #openaccess
Long reads | Short Stories | Poetry | Visual Essays | Sounds |
ISSN 2752-3659
http://otherwisemag.com
Long reads | Short Stories | Poetry | Visual Essays | Sounds |
ISSN 2752-3659
http://otherwisemag.com
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
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
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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November 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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
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
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
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
October 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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
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
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-...
"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-...
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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October 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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-...
"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-...
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"
A graphic story by Samir Harb
www.otherwisemag.com/your-silence...
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...
www.otherwisemag.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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"
A graphic story by Samir Harb
www.otherwisemag.com/your-silence...
Reposted by otherwisemag.bsky.social
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!
To all, Happy reading!
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
Check out our latest story by Jacek Wajszczak
otherwisemag.com/corbus-boars
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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September 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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!
To all, Happy reading!
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
Check out our latest story by Jacek Wajszczak
otherwisemag.com/corbus-boars
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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September 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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
Check out our latest story by Jacek Wajszczak
otherwisemag.com/corbus-boars
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
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
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
otherwisemag.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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
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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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
Checked it out - We are sure you’ll love it as much as we do!
#anthropology
#graphic
#storytelling
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
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
September 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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
Checked it out - We are sure you’ll love it as much as we do!
#anthropology
#graphic
#storytelling
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From the river to the sea 🍉 🍉🍉
Thanks so much to Samir Harb for his beautiful and important and needed and timely work
Thanks so much to Samir Harb for his beautiful and important and needed and timely work
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...
Samir Harb grows seeds, lines and peace of mind, cultivating freedom in a pot of Palestinian soil
otherwisemag.com/your-silence...
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...
otherwisemag.com
September 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
From the river to the sea 🍉 🍉🍉
Thanks so much to Samir Harb for his beautiful and important and needed and timely work
Thanks so much to Samir Harb for his beautiful and important and needed and timely work
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
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
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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August 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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
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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Samir Harb @samirharb.bsky.social on living through a genocide in the silence of German academia @otherwisemag.bsky.social www.otherwisemag.com
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...
www.otherwisemag.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Samir Harb @samirharb.bsky.social on living through a genocide in the silence of German academia @otherwisemag.bsky.social www.otherwisemag.com
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...
Samir Harb grows seeds, lines and peace of mind, cultivating freedom in a pot of Palestinian soil
otherwisemag.com/your-silence...
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...
otherwisemag.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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...
Samir Harb grows seeds, lines and peace of mind, cultivating freedom in a pot of Palestinian soil
otherwisemag.com/your-silence...
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
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
August 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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
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
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...
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...
July 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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...
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...
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...
The children of Kafka
In this story, Andleeb Shadani traces the lives of writers imprisoned by words.
www.otherwisemag.com/the-children...
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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June 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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...
The children of Kafka
In this story, Andleeb Shadani traces the lives of writers imprisoned by words.
www.otherwisemag.com/the-children...
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...
"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...
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
www.otherwisemag.com
June 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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...
"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...
[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
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
June 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
[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
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
[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
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
May 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
[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
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
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
May 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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
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...
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...
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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May 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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...
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...
[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
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
Meet the author: Daniel Orisaeke | Otherwise
www.otherwisemag.com
May 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
[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
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
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
Garbage men
In this story, Ema Babikwa follows the trail of our unwanted.
"Carcasses, they take carcasses"
www.otherwisemag.com/garbage-men
May 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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
Garbage men
In this story, Ema Babikwa follows the trail of our unwanted.
"Carcasses, they take carcasses"
www.otherwisemag.com/garbage-men
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
Check out over 70 stories narrating otherwise
www.otherwisemag.com/pastissues
May 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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
Check out over 70 stories narrating otherwise
www.otherwisemag.com/pastissues
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
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
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
www.otherwisemag.com
May 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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
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
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...
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...
May 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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...
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...