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Apogee Issue 20 is LIVE TODAY.

As our anonymous editor writes, "I am feeling overwhelmed. At the grandest scale. Every news alert on my phone suggests a new infringement on my rights. Things have gotten so grim that, just before the launching of this issue, we collectively decided to redact my name given my immigrant status. I am so frustrated. With the way that genocide is hedged and euphemized in corporate media. With the emails sent from institutional strongholds that are meant to keep me docile, even as so-called leaders (elected, appointed, I can’t keep track) capitulate in the face of this particularly loathsome hegemon. I am frustrated with myself, my own feelings of helplessness, even as I have a mostly comfortable existence in the face of this global suffering, this sadness, this despair.

If you too feel this way, we offer Issue 20 as ample, shimmering evidence of our shared humanity.

The powerful, incisive stories, essays, and poems in this issue insist that we wake up. They say, come on now, enough of that."

Featuring works by Derek Yen, Dylan McNulty-Holmes, Jo Bear, Erin Noehre, alma valdez-garcia & imogen smith, Ayling Dominguez, Kashi Saloni, Aida Bardissi, Shelby Pinkham, Kamelya Omayma Youssef, Marwa Helal, Dana Ysabel, Tala Khanmalek | mecca monarch, Chisom Anarah, Charlie Hart, Taylor Jordan Holmes, Shaan Sachdev, Althea Murphy-Price, Nelson Gutierrez, MengCheng 梦城团 Collective (Neena Wang, LiLi Nacht, Thandi Cai, Yidan Zeng), and Charles Caesar.

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