Longing | The Fall 2024 Issue

We are honored and thrilled to share our Fall 2024 issue, Longing, edited by Tanya Shirazi-Galvez with Adriana E. Ramírez with writing by Lupita Aquino, Catalina Bode, Maz Do, Lauren Francis-Sharma, Yessica Martinez, Tierney Oberhammer, Mauricio Ruiz, Madina Tuhbatullina, and Alexandra Watson and interviews with Elain Hsieh Chou, Angie Cruz, Sangi Lama, Sandra Lee, and Diana Khoi Nguyen, as well as cover by iliana emilia García.

Please read on to find the writing and some words from us.

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“My library is an archive of longings.”

— Susan Sontag

Longing is inextricable from desire, pain, grief. We can long to return to a past, one where our fears, preoccupations, sorrows feel opaque in comparison to the joy, love and ecstasy that make our lives feel whole. The desire for what we cannot have. Or for what never was, never existed. For the unfinished, the undone, a pause in the past.

In these works, we long for the opportunity to see the graduation caps that never went up in the air, a yearning to be loved again, we “remember the blood.” A response to a job opportunity has catastrophic consequences for a budding flower shop, a community is marked after an unspeakable crime, a widow finds freedom in unexpected ways, a daughter experiences inexplicable pain. We reexamine childhood memories that have instilled shame and revisit mother tongues.

The included conversations explore what can be salvaged from the drafting graveyard, how ghosts and ancestors are called on to write collaboratively, creating a “diasporic documentary,” how family documents can be portals for aspects of oneself and a family narrative.

As this year comes to a close, while we wait, we here at Aster(ix) invite you to build an archive of longing with us.

With warmth,

Tanya