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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
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 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...
[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
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 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...
A little girl in the village
In this story, Rukia Seleman Bijoux traverses the line between opportunity and exploitation
"Amina was not fine, but she was determined"
www.otherwisemag.com/a-little-gir...
In this story, Rukia Seleman Bijoux traverses the line between opportunity and exploitation
"Amina was not fine, but she was determined"
www.otherwisemag.com/a-little-gir...
March 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
A little girl in the village
In this story, Rukia Seleman Bijoux traverses the line between opportunity and exploitation
"Amina was not fine, but she was determined"
www.otherwisemag.com/a-little-gir...
In this story, Rukia Seleman Bijoux traverses the line between opportunity and exploitation
"Amina was not fine, but she was determined"
www.otherwisemag.com/a-little-gir...
#anthropologyday
@OtherwiseMag seeks to rethink anthropology as a tool to expand the vocabulary of the possible, the social, the moral, the cultural and the political. Anthropology is tool for describing what is, but also for envisaging what can be.
long life to #anthropology
@OtherwiseMag seeks to rethink anthropology as a tool to expand the vocabulary of the possible, the social, the moral, the cultural and the political. Anthropology is tool for describing what is, but also for envisaging what can be.
long life to #anthropology
February 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
#anthropologyday
@OtherwiseMag seeks to rethink anthropology as a tool to expand the vocabulary of the possible, the social, the moral, the cultural and the political. Anthropology is tool for describing what is, but also for envisaging what can be.
long life to #anthropology
@OtherwiseMag seeks to rethink anthropology as a tool to expand the vocabulary of the possible, the social, the moral, the cultural and the political. Anthropology is tool for describing what is, but also for envisaging what can be.
long life to #anthropology
An Otherwise Manifesto
We see Otherwise as an interface between storytellers of the ordinary within and outside academia, activism, professional writing, visual arts, and areas of life and work where opportunities for storytelling remain limited.
We see Otherwise as an interface between storytellers of the ordinary within and outside academia, activism, professional writing, visual arts, and areas of life and work where opportunities for storytelling remain limited.
February 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
An Otherwise Manifesto
We see Otherwise as an interface between storytellers of the ordinary within and outside academia, activism, professional writing, visual arts, and areas of life and work where opportunities for storytelling remain limited.
We see Otherwise as an interface between storytellers of the ordinary within and outside academia, activism, professional writing, visual arts, and areas of life and work where opportunities for storytelling remain limited.
HAPPY 2025! 🎉🎉
One more year of OtherwiseMag exploring struggles, bodies, ruptures movements and intimacies, work and belonging, things happening accidentally, fragments of existence, memories and what is to tell stories through someone else's eyes.
otherwisemag.com/pastissues
One more year of OtherwiseMag exploring struggles, bodies, ruptures movements and intimacies, work and belonging, things happening accidentally, fragments of existence, memories and what is to tell stories through someone else's eyes.
otherwisemag.com/pastissues
January 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
HAPPY 2025! 🎉🎉
One more year of OtherwiseMag exploring struggles, bodies, ruptures movements and intimacies, work and belonging, things happening accidentally, fragments of existence, memories and what is to tell stories through someone else's eyes.
otherwisemag.com/pastissues
One more year of OtherwiseMag exploring struggles, bodies, ruptures movements and intimacies, work and belonging, things happening accidentally, fragments of existence, memories and what is to tell stories through someone else's eyes.
otherwisemag.com/pastissues
Over 55 authors narrating struggles, bodies, ruptures movements and intimacies, work and belonging, things happening accidentally, fragments of existence, memories and what is to tell stories through someone else's eyes.
otherwisemag.com/pastissues
otherwisemag.com/pastissues
November 26, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Over 55 authors narrating struggles, bodies, ruptures movements and intimacies, work and belonging, things happening accidentally, fragments of existence, memories and what is to tell stories through someone else's eyes.
otherwisemag.com/pastissues
otherwisemag.com/pastissues
We are very bad at remembering our birthday. But yes, we turned 4 (!) on November
Happy birthday to OtherwiseMag
Check out our list of past issues :
www.otherwisemag.com/pastissues
and our latest issue Homeliness
www.otherwisemag.com/homeliness
Happy birthday to OtherwiseMag
Check out our list of past issues :
www.otherwisemag.com/pastissues
and our latest issue Homeliness
www.otherwisemag.com/homeliness
November 22, 2024 at 1:41 PM
We are very bad at remembering our birthday. But yes, we turned 4 (!) on November
Happy birthday to OtherwiseMag
Check out our list of past issues :
www.otherwisemag.com/pastissues
and our latest issue Homeliness
www.otherwisemag.com/homeliness
Happy birthday to OtherwiseMag
Check out our list of past issues :
www.otherwisemag.com/pastissues
and our latest issue Homeliness
www.otherwisemag.com/homeliness
OUR NEW STORY IS OUT
Fuckoff, Florida
In this story, GROZNY clings to the concrete of apartment walls as despair closes in.
otherwisemag.com/fuck-off-flo...
"I’m getting sick these days"
Photo Credit: Camilla Urso
Fuckoff, Florida
In this story, GROZNY clings to the concrete of apartment walls as despair closes in.
otherwisemag.com/fuck-off-flo...
"I’m getting sick these days"
Photo Credit: Camilla Urso
November 22, 2024 at 12:33 PM
OUR NEW STORY IS OUT
Fuckoff, Florida
In this story, GROZNY clings to the concrete of apartment walls as despair closes in.
otherwisemag.com/fuck-off-flo...
"I’m getting sick these days"
Photo Credit: Camilla Urso
Fuckoff, Florida
In this story, GROZNY clings to the concrete of apartment walls as despair closes in.
otherwisemag.com/fuck-off-flo...
"I’m getting sick these days"
Photo Credit: Camilla Urso
Meet the author: Hannah Saal
"Fiction is a great place to explore the quiet ways people love"
An interview with Otherwise fiction and non-fiction editor Niharika Pandit
www.otherwisemag.com/interview/me...
"Fiction is a great place to explore the quiet ways people love"
An interview with Otherwise fiction and non-fiction editor Niharika Pandit
www.otherwisemag.com/interview/me...
November 13, 2024 at 10:54 AM
Meet the author: Hannah Saal
"Fiction is a great place to explore the quiet ways people love"
An interview with Otherwise fiction and non-fiction editor Niharika Pandit
www.otherwisemag.com/interview/me...
"Fiction is a great place to explore the quiet ways people love"
An interview with Otherwise fiction and non-fiction editor Niharika Pandit
www.otherwisemag.com/interview/me...
HOMELINESS IS OUT!
This issue weaves us in and out of homeliness, through the charge of names, trails, objects, and places
Curated by Rosa Sansone
otherwisemag.com/homeliness
This issue weaves us in and out of homeliness, through the charge of names, trails, objects, and places
Curated by Rosa Sansone
otherwisemag.com/homeliness
August 28, 2024 at 5:23 PM
HOMELINESS IS OUT!
This issue weaves us in and out of homeliness, through the charge of names, trails, objects, and places
Curated by Rosa Sansone
otherwisemag.com/homeliness
This issue weaves us in and out of homeliness, through the charge of names, trails, objects, and places
Curated by Rosa Sansone
otherwisemag.com/homeliness
Meet the author Marina Srnka
An interview Otherwise creative non-fiction and memoir editor Laura Moran
"For me, the locked-down Bologna was like an empty carcass waiting to explode and scream its own bloody story."
www.otherwisemag.com/meet-the-aut...
An interview Otherwise creative non-fiction and memoir editor Laura Moran
"For me, the locked-down Bologna was like an empty carcass waiting to explode and scream its own bloody story."
www.otherwisemag.com/meet-the-aut...
March 28, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Meet the author Marina Srnka
An interview Otherwise creative non-fiction and memoir editor Laura Moran
"For me, the locked-down Bologna was like an empty carcass waiting to explode and scream its own bloody story."
www.otherwisemag.com/meet-the-aut...
An interview Otherwise creative non-fiction and memoir editor Laura Moran
"For me, the locked-down Bologna was like an empty carcass waiting to explode and scream its own bloody story."
www.otherwisemag.com/meet-the-aut...
OUR NEW STORY IS OUT
Marína Srnka portrays bodies rejoining the forbidden outdoors
www.otherwisemag.com/bodies-in-sp...
"And there we were:
Roaming the empty streets"
Marína Srnka portrays bodies rejoining the forbidden outdoors
www.otherwisemag.com/bodies-in-sp...
"And there we were:
Roaming the empty streets"
March 22, 2024 at 9:25 AM
OUR NEW STORY IS OUT
Marína Srnka portrays bodies rejoining the forbidden outdoors
www.otherwisemag.com/bodies-in-sp...
"And there we were:
Roaming the empty streets"
Marína Srnka portrays bodies rejoining the forbidden outdoors
www.otherwisemag.com/bodies-in-sp...
"And there we were:
Roaming the empty streets"
OUR NEW STORY IS OUT
Body/womb
Cuerpo/vientre
A poem by Alejandra Pizarro Choy
‘I am no dead soil waiting for your seed’ – ‘No soy tierra muerta esperando tu semilla’
www.otherwisemag.com/bodywomb
Body/womb
Cuerpo/vientre
A poem by Alejandra Pizarro Choy
‘I am no dead soil waiting for your seed’ – ‘No soy tierra muerta esperando tu semilla’
www.otherwisemag.com/bodywomb
February 12, 2024 at 10:02 AM
OUR NEW STORY IS OUT
Body/womb
Cuerpo/vientre
A poem by Alejandra Pizarro Choy
‘I am no dead soil waiting for your seed’ – ‘No soy tierra muerta esperando tu semilla’
www.otherwisemag.com/bodywomb
Body/womb
Cuerpo/vientre
A poem by Alejandra Pizarro Choy
‘I am no dead soil waiting for your seed’ – ‘No soy tierra muerta esperando tu semilla’
www.otherwisemag.com/bodywomb
BODIES IS OUT - OUR NEW ISSUE IS OUT
www.otherwisemag.com/bodies
This issue celebrates bodies; in their imperfect shape and finite nature. Bodies filling space, or struggling to situate themselves within it. Bodies defining times and by time bound.
www.otherwisemag.com/bodies
This issue celebrates bodies; in their imperfect shape and finite nature. Bodies filling space, or struggling to situate themselves within it. Bodies defining times and by time bound.
February 8, 2024 at 11:24 AM
BODIES IS OUT - OUR NEW ISSUE IS OUT
www.otherwisemag.com/bodies
This issue celebrates bodies; in their imperfect shape and finite nature. Bodies filling space, or struggling to situate themselves within it. Bodies defining times and by time bound.
www.otherwisemag.com/bodies
This issue celebrates bodies; in their imperfect shape and finite nature. Bodies filling space, or struggling to situate themselves within it. Bodies defining times and by time bound.
Hello. This is OtherwiseMag
Otherwise Magazine is a magazine of ethnography and storytelling.
By sharing stories, we aim to foster conversations on the power of storytelling as a means of turning the ordinary into a space for imagining and pursuing an otherwise..
www.otherwisemag.com/magazine
Otherwise Magazine is a magazine of ethnography and storytelling.
By sharing stories, we aim to foster conversations on the power of storytelling as a means of turning the ordinary into a space for imagining and pursuing an otherwise..
www.otherwisemag.com/magazine
January 24, 2024 at 10:26 AM
Hello. This is OtherwiseMag
Otherwise Magazine is a magazine of ethnography and storytelling.
By sharing stories, we aim to foster conversations on the power of storytelling as a means of turning the ordinary into a space for imagining and pursuing an otherwise..
www.otherwisemag.com/magazine
Otherwise Magazine is a magazine of ethnography and storytelling.
By sharing stories, we aim to foster conversations on the power of storytelling as a means of turning the ordinary into a space for imagining and pursuing an otherwise..
www.otherwisemag.com/magazine