2025 SUMMER ISSUE

EDITORS’ NOTE

“The future is something I can breathe in. I can breathe in time like words, like complete sentences.”

My Diary, Billy-Ray Belcourt

Encompassing a body is our first introduction and chance at sovereignty, so what does it mean when our bodies become landlocked states? How do we escape the oppressing confines of surveyed statehood? These are the quandaries at the heart of all the pieces in this year’s Summer Issue. Throttled into scenes of familial pasts, the too real present, and extraordinary futures, our authors and artists show us what it means to listen to the rumbling inside your body that mimics the hum of the land underneath you.

Read entire Editors’ Note here.

Artwork: Sema’s Siapo  by Tessema Meredith