Xicanista Radicalisms: Bridging Together Multiple Worlds

In this special episode, the Tierra y Libertad Press zine collective discusses the inspiration for the recently published zine "Xicanista Radicalisms: Bridging Together Multiple Worlds" that was released in April 2021. Tierra y Libertad Press is an autonomous, self-managed, and member-organized zine press that publishes zines connected to Chicanx/Xican@, Latinx/Latin American, Black/Afro-descent, mixed-race, and Native/Indigenous people from Las Américas. We aim to collaborate, design, create, publish, and disseminate zines that draw from various mediums of creative and analytical expressions. We create zines to spark revolutionary imaginations and possibilities in the spirit of do-it-yourself (DIY), rasquachismo, and Punk sensibilities. We desire to create a radical community of creative, cultural, and artistic practitioners and zinesters. In this episode, we invited poets Alé and Mariah on this episode to share the poems that they contributed to the zine. With this reading, the zine collective offers a response and analysis to the poetry that invites all those who encounter this work to feel deeply about the powerful words Alé, Mariah, and others who contributed to this zine shared with courage in our times.