A conversation with the multidisciplinary artist, and Photography Director of Atmos magazine Laura Beltrán Villamizar — Invitation by this month’s artist to listen to this song whilst, before or after, reading I write this with a fan blowing on my body, sweat dripping down my chest, and it’s 6 pm. I would have written this morning, but it was too hot. So, as my climate anxiety…

thoughts on wildfires and revelations. — The word apocalypse comes from Latin meaning “revelation” and from Greek meaning apokalyptein, to “uncover, disclose, reveal. It’s roots go from apo “off, away from” kalyptein “to cover, to conceal”. Why am I saying this? Because you see, the world literally burning has been heavy on my soul and I…

Fear of otherness is nothing more than fear of magic. — Magic is defined as the “art of influencing or predicting events and producing marvels using hidden natural forces.” But what I found most interesting is that to find the root of this word, one must dig very very far into the past. Magic has existed for centuries. …

From Nairobi, Rix Poet makes healing a revolutionary tool for men. — One of my favourite books is All About Love by bell hooks.It speaks of love as a practice of freedom against systems that oppress our ability to love ourselves, each other, and our environment. I love it because the theoretical part is complemented by a practical way to think about…

what are poetic antidotes? My work focuses on finding poetic antidotes to systemic issues. I made this choice a year ago after I grew tired of only feeling rage about the injustices of the world. My quest became to find poetic antidotes to systemic issues, but what are they? They…

what does it mean to commit to one’s own peace? This morning I woke up to look for the lunar eclipse but the clouds had gotten to her first. …