Looks like meetings and workshops on Zoom worked out after all! Our first (pandemic) issue is out! Celebrate non-existent trick-or-treating by enjoying some of our very spooky pieces! Exclamation mark! Another one! Happy Halloween!
Black Lives Matter — we have an inherent responsibility as a literary magazine to advocate for justice and hold those in power accountable; as the late James Baldwin once said in regards to being a writer, “I consider that I have many responsibilities, but none greater than this: to last, as Hemingway says, and get my work done.”
Through literatures we expose the injustice, the suffering, and the inequality in the society. We must take our stance and do the same in the society we live in.
We stand against racism.
We stand with you.
Our heart goes out to all the communities and areas affected by police brutality, and we encourage you to use your incredible writing and art skills for reform. Send letters to your CA representatives (Ro Khanna and Dianne Feinstein), message your relatives and friends to address the subject, and write to express yourself. Activism is more then just protests and we know that each of you is capable of making a small ripple to shift the tide of the times. For more ways to get involved, visit blacklivesmatter.carrd.co.
In the wake of an exceedingly tempestuous discourse in the company of Vertigo personnel, which is composed of a group of ten, ideas of each of whom are subject to the experiences of their persons and some, whose name shall be kept, out of, but not limited to, respects for themselves and the necessity of anonymity for the public and private welfare, with stronger fervors than others in their expressions and radical interests, we collectively as a whole, having smoothed over the crooks and obstacles and the disagreement that have born within and divided us, have come to an agreement on the word, which is taken from the list of four that was heretofore a topic of discourse and change but no longer so as of this moment in time, that is to be used for the upcoming issue, which commonly and more popularly, albeit arguably a statement of subjectivity, is known to the general public as the Winter issue.
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