Editor’s Note

Artwork by Larissa Ribeiro

Adi Magazine is evolving! We will now publish a new piece every week, curating a selection of creative nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, and visual art on the ideas and stories that provoke and inspire us. This shift means that we will have more opportunities to offer our readers fresh and timely reflections, invocations, analyses, and experimentations on how national and global policies affect individual lives. 

We’re also thrilled to introduce our new editorial team members: prose editors Ruxandra Guidi and Shze-Hui Tjoa, and poetry editor Ladan Osman. They are all bad-ass writers and incisive word wranglers, and their contributions elevate and expand Adi’s project. 

The team is still poring through fiction and poetry submissions from our recent open calls, which focused on alternative political visions for a world in need of them. We can’t wait to share these new pieces with you over the coming months! 

We are, as Audre Lorde said, “making the future as well as bonding to survive the enormous pressures of the present.” We hope that the community Adi supports will provide fruitful ground for transformative ideas and actions across the globe. 

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—Jori Lewis, Adi Magazine‘s editor in chief

Jori Lewis writes narrative nonfiction that explores how people interact with their environments. Her reports and essays have been published in The Atlantic Magazine, Orion Magazine and Emergence Magazine, among others. In 2022, she published her first book, Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History, which was supported by the prestigious Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and a Silvers Grant for Work in Progress. It also won a James Beard media award and the Harriet Tubman Prize. She was a 2024-2025 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a 2019-2020 Scripps Fellow at the University of Colorado, Boulder.


Larissa Ribeiro is a Brazilian artist and graphic designer dedicated to exploring collaborative creative processes and artificial intelligence. She holds a degree in Architecture and has specialized in illustration at institutions in Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom. She is a partner at Estúdio Rebimboca, a design studio based in São Paulo. Her illustrated books have been translated to over 20 countries, and are available for free download under Creative Commons license. Her work has earned international recognition, including awards from the Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, and Latin American Design Awards.