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Despite all of the collective organizing ahead of the election, while we waited, I felt a lack of power, a sense of reliance on the hegemonic forces at work to determine our fate…Yet, I was also reminded of the power of community—the power of collectivity, and of organizing.

… In this issue, Catherine Wagley writes, “I want to live in a different, more liberated world than the one most of us find ourselves caught in, and I want art to help me find it, even as art worlds themselves have again and again proven to be fully committed to a hierarchical, confining, and capitalist reality.” Of course, art itself can provide a pathway towards a more connective world. It’s this very possibility that keeps us all here—the notion that we can collectively and creatively push for the futures that we desire.

–Lindsay Preston Zappas
Carla Founder & Editor-in-Chief