Leonardo Padura’s Like Dust in the Wind and the Afterlife of a Generation
Padura's novel traces the dreams, disappointments, and dispersal of a generation shaped by the Cuban Revolution.
Lucha, Play, and Possibility: Reimagining Mexican American Stories Through Comics
John Avina’s comics, set in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, re-imagine Mexican American life beyond conquest narratives, deportation regimes, and generational loss.
The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice (Review)
The recent book by Emma Amador examines Puerto Rican women social workers’ advocacy for political and social justice under U.S. colonialism throughout the 20th century.
La Horchata and Queer Diasporic Collectivity
A zine envisioned by and for Central Americans is reshaping what it means to be Central American in the diaspora through a spirit of acompañamiento, inclusivity, and collective becoming.
“Caminxs del Sur”: A Sonic-Collage for the Isthmus
Sensing the pluriverse through sound and movement, this audio-visual archive for the future reimagines Central American survival, displacement, and femme worldmaking from below.
On Isthmian Knowing: Bodies, Archives, Futures
Our Summer 2025 print issue explores how knowledge has been created, challenged, and imagined on the Central American isthmus and across its vast diasporas.
Isthmian Saberes Web Exclusive
Don't miss the web exclusive content from our Summer 2025 issue, Isthmian Saberes, on knowledge production and archival praxis in América Central.
Hacia las lenguas del corazón/ Towards Languages of the Heart
An art collaboration between two activists and friends involves the sharing of blood as an act of diasporic love, colonial reckoning, and collective repair for queer, travesti, and trans people of color.
Afro-Feminist Poetics and Trans Life in Cuba: A Conversation with Max Fonseca
The poet and activist talks about the precarity that trans, queer, and Afrodescendent people in Cuba face today, and the life sustaining worlds built by Black trans women in Cuba and its diaspora.
This Spanglish Bookstore In New York Is Reclaiming Bushwick’s Sense Of Latinidad
Mil Mundos began as a means for María Herrón to reclaim her identity. Now, this bookstore’s founder is building a community among Latines in Brooklyn, New York.
Hermanos fi al-Muqawama, Brothers in the Resistance
In the heat of parallel struggles against imperial oppression, one of the most prominent historical ideologues of El Salvador’s revolutionary movement played a key role in forging solidarity with the Middle East.
To Exist is to Resist ¡Viva Palestina Libre!
The Winter 2024 issue of the NACLA Report explores transcontinental encounters between the land of historical Palestine and the land we know as the Americas.
