Chutney Magazine - Issue 4

From Turtle Island to Palestine, Chutney stands in solidarity with all peoples resisting occupation, genocide and erasure.

Some thoughts, drawn from my editor's note: I've struggled with the cognitive dissonance of producing a magazine over the past two years while bearing witness to genocides in Palestine and Sudan, state-sanctioned murder beyond, the suppression of trans lives, brutal deportations of migrants and—the list of these crucially interconnected injustices goes on, though it feels crude to fire them off as if they were merely words on a page and not realities bearing down their heavy consequences on so many lives. 
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If previous issues took a more celebratory approach to our many cultures and identities, much of the writing this time feels like more of a reckoning, or perhaps an attempt to reconcile multiple ways of being. Pain, grief, absence and loss sit alongside small joys, fond memories and dreams.
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What’s a magazine worth, compared to stones thrown in resistance? Not much, I acknowledge. But power to, and solidarity with, the ones throwing them.
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Extremely grateful to everyone who has helped make this issue possible, supported Chutney over the years, and of course, the contributors at the heart of the magazine. A more in depth look at each of their stories to follow soon. 
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Featuring: Malak Hijazi, Sandy Christ, Amirio Freeman, Audrey Tseng de Melo Fischer, Chong Gu, Jasmine Lo, Vivien Chan, Nadja Lovadinov, Lauren Doughty, Lara Torbay, Afi Venessa Appiah, N.A. Mansour, Jessica Wu, Madeleine Woodhouse, Ibrahim Kombarji, Diogo Serafim, Sinae Park, Tahlia Palmer, Safaa Alnabelseya, Rebecca Mangra, Felix Yang, Romila, María José Durán, Benigna Triviño, María Bethania Campillay, Solange Cortés, Mónica Tobar, María Lobos, Ana María Pérez, Laura Rojas, Shivangi Mariam Raj, Nadine Hijazi, and Mirelle van Tulder.

Chutney is an independent magazine of everyday stories on cultures and identities from voices of the Global Majority and its diasporas. Each issue explores aspects of homeland, colonial history, nostalgia, migration and more, in hopes of challenging the idea of communities as monoliths and enriching our understanding of, and solidarity with, one another.

Published biennially since 2019, Chutney is designed and edited by Osman Bari. The magazine was started on the traditional territories of the Anishinaabeg—specifically Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation—Haudenosaunee, Chippewa and Wendat, on lands covered by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant. It is currently published out of London, UK.