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May 143 min read

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...

Apr 152 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...

Apr 113 min read

That which devours you: Otesanek.

Otesánek, a cautionary stop motion tale about desires and compulsions. A film review.

Mar 252 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,...

Mar 203 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...

Mar 65 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...

Mar 42 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...

Feb 262 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...

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