NEW ISSUE: The Power of the Pluriverse
Volume 11.2 is here!
We are thrilled to announce the publication of our latest issue, The Power of the Pluriverse!
ABOUT THE ISSUE
This 181-page, double issue features a plethora of insights and practices to support pluriversal praxis. Explore conversations with movement leaders on why pluriversal practice matters now, and dive into essays that help us understand patterns of one-world-worlding that keep us locked in cycles of domination, oppression, and polarization.
Contributions in this issue speak to the ontological frameshift required for pluriversality. Valeria McCarrol’s essay on psychedelics as “transgressive agents of liberation,” explores the value of experiences of “ontological shock” as initiatory experiences in pluriversal practice.
Stephanie Lepp’s piece on her work at Faces of X offers a model for breaking out of the kind of reflexive, binary thinking that is endemic to hegemonic discourse.
Inés Hernández-Ávila offers us examples of how language, “original instructions,” and being in relationship with other humans and the more-than-human world has sustained and held the seeds of resilience for Indigenous people around the globe despite the violent impacts of colonization and extractive capitalism.
Ivana Radačić and Donaven Blake Smith take inspiration from indigenous worldviews in their call for more holistic and spiritually-based approaches to social justice and human rights work.
And Fọláṣadé Àjàyí’s essay on Black utopia points to the possibility and necessity of exploring the “otherwise” as a means not only of surviving oppression, but of harnessing power for social transformation.
This issue is also full of essays that offer pathways toward pluriversal practice. Marlo De Lara, Stephanie Knox Steiner, Minna Kim, Alyssa Smaldino and Dhara Shah offer insights and inspiration into deep listening, futures thinking, and collective dreamwork.
These practice pieces are complemented by two moving personal essays by Hassaun Ali Jones-Bey and Monika Son. Part storytelling, part memoir, and infused with lyrical and embodied-based practice interludes, Jones-Bey and Son, along with poetry by Sarah Caroline Murphy, help ground our pluriversal practice in the rich contours of everyday life.
Art by our beloved mentor, Leticia Nieto, is woven throughout the issue.
READ THE ISSUE
Substack subscribers can access the issue through The Arrow Journal Archives section here on our homepage. Existing subscribers to The Arrow Journal may also access the issue by logging in to our website.
PRACTICE WITH US
Join the issue editors Ashley Wilson and Brooke Lavelle on Friday, March 7th for coffee and conversation (on Zoom). There is so much richness in this issue; we’d love to learn and explore the nuance of this work together! All are welcome! Register.
And save the date for an experiential workshop with Maha El-Sheikh, Katrine Bregengaard, and Brooke Lavelle on Friday, March 28th, on practices for undoing one-world-worlding in our movements for justice and liberation. Registration will open next week.
NEW PODCAST, PRECISELY!
We’re so excited to share that we’re launching a new podcast, Precisely!, in conjunction with our most recent issue. For this first series, we’ll be joined by some of our incredible authors for conversations on pluriversality. Stay tuned for more!