Aster(ix) Journal

Microeditorial: Rodillas, A Kind of Reckoning - Aster(ix) Journal I grew up believing that I belonged to a family of birds. When your family comes from Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Peru—the border is not a desert or a river but the entire sky. For years I thought...

"I grew up believing that I belonged to a family of birds. When your family comes from Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Peru—the border is not a desert or a river but the entire sky" - Daisy hernandez

Nonproprietary Forms: Diana Khoi Nguyen and Angie Cruz in Conversation - Aster(ix) Journal In Fall 2023 I had the pleasure to speak to Diana Khoi Nguyen about her work and learn more about her creative genealogies. In preparation for our conversation she shared an essay she turns to regular...

"I started crying,...the floodgates opened....That white space was a key hole which unlocked pent-up emotions. When I consciously and intentionally decided to stay and write in the cutout space, it gave me access to all these things I didn’t yet know how to engage with." -Diana Khoi Nguyen

pinto ( “penis” & slang for “chick” in brazilian portuguese) - Aster(ix) Journal if the dream is to go beyond empire if the dream is to stretch our extremities all the way thru if o poder emana do povo & the people’s emanations  refuse to be privatized what does it mean that i fis...

"if the dream is to go beyond empire

if the dream is to stretch our extremities

all the way thru"

- Lucas de Lima

"I want to plant a novel! ...to grow a fictional garden that you can read. I don’t know what that means: Bury books and see if they grow? I just love this idea that you buy a book and it has a seed in the pages." -Nelly Rosario with Emily Raboteau
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