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How to choose fiction names for characters
It is a complex task to choose the right names for fictional characters. All the unique ones are hard to choose, especially if we want...
Rommel Ortega
May 14, 20243 min read
Have you ever seen with your ears? If not, let us tell you about Japysaka
Picture yourself in a place where no one speaks your language: all the people talking will be noise to you, and, since you do not...
Claudia Velazquez
Apr 15, 20242 min read
That which devours you: Otesanek.
Otesánek, a cautionary stop motion tale about desires and compulsions. A film review.
Yulia
Apr 11, 20243 min read
Being akäts and other forms of identification for Mixe people
If you are not a born and raised speaker of the language of the mountains, you are an akäts. This means that you could be from México,...
Claudia Velazquez
Mar 25, 20242 min read
Notes on the writing of Where Days Repeat Endlessly
I'm still tempted to write "Butterfly Valley" instead of "Where Days Repeat Endlessly" because that was the name with which I developed...
Andrea Gonzalez
Mar 20, 20243 min read
How to become a comet: The journey as an illustrator of Estela Cen
Some decades ago, on the Peninsula of Yucatan, a young woman had to make the biggest choice of her life: what career to study. She had...
Claudia Velazquez
Mar 6, 20245 min read
Hózó: words that contain entire cultures?
This week, our word is Hózó, the Navajo word for "balance and beauty". Between one language and another, some words can often be...
Claudia Velazquez
Mar 4, 20242 min read
Donadagohvi: from a language without a goodbye
Did you know that some languages don't have a word for "goodbye"? This is the case for many indigenous languages, such as Nahuatl and...
Andrea Gonzalez
Feb 26, 20242 min read
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