Aster(ix) Journal Newsletter | April 2019

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ASTER(IX) JOURNAL

Dear Aster(ix) Readers,

This spring we’re challenging ourselves to find inspiration in all that is new. Keep reading for new pieces from Ruth Kocher, María del Socorro Límon, and newly released pieces from the Fall 2018 Edges issues including Olivia Walton, Shay Lawz and Malvinna Sammarone. In honor of Earth Day, Aster(ix) Editor Angie Cruz also spoke with artists Erica Hunt, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Dawn Lundy Martin and giovanni singleton. Read more of their discussion on climate change, race and the future of our survival.

This year Aster(ix) is celebrating six years of life and news that Carly Moore’s “My Big Gay Essay” won the 2018 Best of Net! We hope to continue sharing work of marginalized voices that often go unnoticed. From all of us at Aster(ix), thank you for being part of the Aster(ix) familia!

Love always,
Aster(ix) Journal

Art by Emily Raboteau

MORE ON ASTER(IX).COM

INTERVIEW: Gardens or Guns: Climate Change, Race and the Future: A Conversation with Angie Cruz, Erica Hunt, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Dawn Lundy Martin and giovanni singleton

Why aren’t more artists engaging this topic when it’s the most pressing conversation as far as our survival is concerned?

POETRY: Three Poems: August, wallpaper interlude, March
by Shay Lawz

A child is an open body.

Wallpaper is that which clothes the house
is that which wears the child is that which
sees.

INTERVIEW: Latino/a Studies at Williams College, One Day at a Time Love Fest

During Latinx Heritage Month at Williams College, scholar, Maria Elena Cepeda facilitated a conversation with the executive producer, writer and showrunner of Netflix’s One Day At a Time, Gloria Calderon Kellett, and three cast members: Justina Machado, Rita Moreno and Isabella Gomez.

REMEDIOS: How to Make Devastation
Not So Devastating
by María del Socorro Limón

Then you somehow manage to hold it together on Tuesday and Wednesday, and by Thursday you become invisible because people ignore large, opinionated, and strident Chicanas unwilling to hide the big ugly cry to defy social norms that require us to pretend all is well.

NONFICTION: MY BIG GAY ESSAY
by Carley Moore | BEST OF THE NET WINNER

One of the many brilliant threads in Andrea Lawlor’s new novel, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, is around the rituals of clothing — their power, their possibility for subversion, their ability to transform us, and the way they situate and complicate our genders.

MICROEDITORIAL: Imagine this is all your happening… what will you do?
by Ruth Ellen Kocher

I’m trying to say that these issues are not simply type and font. They are not only class and race and politics.

INTERVIEW: Malvina Sammarone — Communicating the Incommunicable

Time and duration are very present in my work, as well as the notion of possibility and unpredictability, error and exhaustion. These are incorporated in my artistic process by using the possibilities and limitations of the body.

FICTION: Dreams of Sedat Peker
by Olivia Walton

A message from Sedat Peker.

We will let your blood in streams and we will take a shower in your blood. If you ask my opinion, you should not try to sink this STATE for your own health. The only reason that you are alive at the moment is the presence of the STATE and its survival.

ASTER(IX) PRESENTS

PODCAST: ASTER(IX) PRESENTS

Our inaugural podcast episode of Aster(ix) presents features Sandra Cisneros. Join Aster(ix)’s Angela Velez as she explores fame with Sandra at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA.

Photo by Heather Kresge

latest issue from Aster(ix):

edges

The Fall 2018 Aster(ix) Anthology features writers, both established and emerging, whose prose and poetry embraces the themes of establishing, breaking, and defying edges. Including works from Nathalie Handal, Leila Nadir, Rosa Alcalá, Vi Khi Nao, Shay Lawz, Olivia Rose Walton, Lucas de Lima, Malvinna Sammarone, Nicole Callihan, J.C. Reyes, Flavia Rocha, Sue Scavo, and Laylah Ali (cover art).

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