Not From Here

Sluice magazine

Autumn 2021

Not From Here

We are cleaved (both meanings) by our biological, geographical and assorted group classifications, at turns by cultural essentialism and constructivism. These forces play into ideas of belonging, of who gets to belong and what belonging entails. The struggle to define oneself in a new country, to constructively criticise it, to integrate whilst also retaining connections to one’s heritage and points of differentiation, to want society and power structures to, in some way, reflect us is what each contributor to this issue is wrestling with.

Featuring:

Katya Grokhovsky (Ukraine - Australia - USA)

Alice Procter (Australia - Hong Kong - UK)

Yu’an Huang (Taiwan - UK - Germany)

Hanaa Malallah (Iraq - France - UK)

Jim Ricks (USA - Ireland - Mexico)

Naoko Mabon (Japan - Scotland)

Alice Máselníková (Czech Republic - Sweden)

Mohini Chandra (Fiji - UK)

Alistair Gentry (Felixstow - London)