Anthology on Latinx Visions for Healing & Justice
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The editors of Sana, Sana: Latinx Pain & Radical Visions for Healing & Justice, David Luis Glisch-Sánchez and Nic Rodríguez, are seeking to produce this groundbreaking anthology in a way that is in alignment with their fundamental belief that artists and writers deserve to be compensated appropriately for their labor and creativity. Unfortunately, neither David nor Nic are independently wealthy and so are turning to their friends, family, extended networks and strangers to help support this needed book project so that it becomes a reality. To be clear and upfront from the outset, we are not seeking financial support to independently publish the anthology; rather, we are seeking to raise funds so that we are able to compensate contributors to the collection. Having the means to compensate contributors will make it more feasible for us to recruit independent Latinx writers and creatives who support themselves primarily through their creative labor. Before we breakdown our campaign goal and what that will allow us to accomplish, allow us to tell you more about this anthology collection.
Sana, Sana: Latinx Pain & Radical Visions for Healing & Justice is a shared vision of David Luis Glisch-Sánchez and Nic Rodríguez. The anthology project is rooted in David and Nic’s deep desire to hold space to not only acknowledge and name the various forms of pain and trauma Latinx people experience regularly, but to do so in the service of imagining new futures and ways of being in the present that prioritize healing and justice not just for Latinx people, but all people, especially Queer BIPOC communities. Our vision and understanding of Latinidad is broad and expansive, and thus this anthology seeks to center Black, Indigenous, Queer, Trans, and Feminist Latinidades. It is our strongly held belief that centering an unapologetically radical antiracist, anticapitalist, feminist, and queer politic creates the greatest possibility for identifying economic, social, political, emotional, and spiritual strategies that can and will result in significant and concrete individual and collective healing and justice. It is our vision and plan that contributions to the anthology will address various topics and issues; but especially plan on curating pieces that speak to anti-Black racism, settler colonialism, misogyny, transphobia, heterosexism, and internalized capitalism within Latinx communities. There is no single way to represent or catalogue the myriad ways Latinx people suffer or the numerous ways we pursue and understand healing and justice; therefore, the anthology will include various genres of writing, ranging from prose and poetry to short story and playwriting. In short, we understand Sana, Sana to be a radically creative and defiant act that refuses to remain silent any longer about our pain and trauma while simultaneously demanding the conditions for our healing and receiving justice.
It is our goal to raise $8,000.00, which will allow us to provide $200.00 to each contributing author. If we raise more money than is needed for compensating all contributing authors, all remaining funds will go towards efforts to promote and raise awareness about the anthology (e.g. bookmarks, postcards, posters, book trailer, etc.). We will update continuously, through this page, all donors so that it remains clear and transparent how all funds are being utilized. As a sign of our deep gratitude, and reflecting the fact that this project is community-inspired, -accountable, and -produced, every donor to this GoFundMe campaign will be acknowledged, by name, in the anthology. Finally, we want to be clear, that no money raised from this GoFundMe campaign will be used to compensate the editors, and that its primary purpose is to provide the economic means by which we can ethically produce this anthology project.
More about the Editors:
David Luis Glisch-Sánchez, Ph.D. – is a queer feminist antiracist healer, and is the founder of Soul Support Life Coaching, an individual and organizational coaching practice rooted in the queer Black and Latinx feminist tradition. They are also an interdisciplinary sociologist working in the areas of emotion, race, genders, and sexualities. They currently teach in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo (SUNY).
Nic López-Rodríguez, M.F.A. – is a non-binary Boricua poet, writer, and Dj. They are currently an adjunct professor of American Studies and Writing Arts at Jefferson University in Philadelphia. They have been an organizer for over 15 years and are a researcher with the Philadelphia Participatory Research Collective (PPRC). Their poems have been described as an "eclectic blend of spanglish hip hop rhythms and Puerto Rican jabería, born out of the southern swamps of Florida." Their writing has been featured in The Gordian Review, Philly Inquirer and N.A.S.W Journal. They are a 2012 Leeway Foundation Arts & Change grant recipient and hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers Newark. Like most writers they have 3 jobs to pay bills and 6 side hustles to stay busy but their main love is always the poems.
Sana, Sana: Latinx Pain & Radical Visions for Healing & Justice is a shared vision of David Luis Glisch-Sánchez and Nic Rodríguez. The anthology project is rooted in David and Nic’s deep desire to hold space to not only acknowledge and name the various forms of pain and trauma Latinx people experience regularly, but to do so in the service of imagining new futures and ways of being in the present that prioritize healing and justice not just for Latinx people, but all people, especially Queer BIPOC communities. Our vision and understanding of Latinidad is broad and expansive, and thus this anthology seeks to center Black, Indigenous, Queer, Trans, and Feminist Latinidades. It is our strongly held belief that centering an unapologetically radical antiracist, anticapitalist, feminist, and queer politic creates the greatest possibility for identifying economic, social, political, emotional, and spiritual strategies that can and will result in significant and concrete individual and collective healing and justice. It is our vision and plan that contributions to the anthology will address various topics and issues; but especially plan on curating pieces that speak to anti-Black racism, settler colonialism, misogyny, transphobia, heterosexism, and internalized capitalism within Latinx communities. There is no single way to represent or catalogue the myriad ways Latinx people suffer or the numerous ways we pursue and understand healing and justice; therefore, the anthology will include various genres of writing, ranging from prose and poetry to short story and playwriting. In short, we understand Sana, Sana to be a radically creative and defiant act that refuses to remain silent any longer about our pain and trauma while simultaneously demanding the conditions for our healing and receiving justice.
It is our goal to raise $8,000.00, which will allow us to provide $200.00 to each contributing author. If we raise more money than is needed for compensating all contributing authors, all remaining funds will go towards efforts to promote and raise awareness about the anthology (e.g. bookmarks, postcards, posters, book trailer, etc.). We will update continuously, through this page, all donors so that it remains clear and transparent how all funds are being utilized. As a sign of our deep gratitude, and reflecting the fact that this project is community-inspired, -accountable, and -produced, every donor to this GoFundMe campaign will be acknowledged, by name, in the anthology. Finally, we want to be clear, that no money raised from this GoFundMe campaign will be used to compensate the editors, and that its primary purpose is to provide the economic means by which we can ethically produce this anthology project.
More about the Editors:
David Luis Glisch-Sánchez, Ph.D. – is a queer feminist antiracist healer, and is the founder of Soul Support Life Coaching, an individual and organizational coaching practice rooted in the queer Black and Latinx feminist tradition. They are also an interdisciplinary sociologist working in the areas of emotion, race, genders, and sexualities. They currently teach in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo (SUNY).
Nic López-Rodríguez, M.F.A. – is a non-binary Boricua poet, writer, and Dj. They are currently an adjunct professor of American Studies and Writing Arts at Jefferson University in Philadelphia. They have been an organizer for over 15 years and are a researcher with the Philadelphia Participatory Research Collective (PPRC). Their poems have been described as an "eclectic blend of spanglish hip hop rhythms and Puerto Rican jabería, born out of the southern swamps of Florida." Their writing has been featured in The Gordian Review, Philly Inquirer and N.A.S.W Journal. They are a 2012 Leeway Foundation Arts & Change grant recipient and hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers Newark. Like most writers they have 3 jobs to pay bills and 6 side hustles to stay busy but their main love is always the poems.
Co-organizers (2)
David Glisch-Sanchez
Organizer
Buffalo, NY
Nic Lopez
Co-organizer