Welcome to Issue 18. In these words and works, we invite you to bear witness to a myriad of existences. We dream of a lingua franca rising up, an undying link between our respective dystopias. We wish to bolster your revolutions, both personal and social. Draw strength from us, from our mission, from our writers and their work. This issue’s cover features a piece by Joiri Minaya and celebrates work by Maxwell Rabb, Dana Tenille Weekes, Samia Saliba, Sihle Ntuli, Meesha Goldberg, Adrienne Oliver, Kinsey Cantrell, Ilias Tsagas, Giovanni Rosa, Jeni Prater, Aishvarya Arora, Harlem West, Daphne DiFazio, Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick, Charlie Sorrenson, Alice Yang, Kuzhali Manickavel, Siete Lin, Roscoè B. Thické III, Christina Yuna Ko, Melissa Joseph, and Helina Metaferia.
